Episode 199 - Technology vs. Creativity: Digital Humans - THU 2018

Getting under the skin of CG characters with Ian Spriggs, Paul Debevec, Hal Hickel, Scott Eaton and Frank Tzeng. Chris and his guests tackle the challenges of building realistic digital humans, the shortcuts games take to present convincing characters on limited hardware, and how subtle artistic decisions can help inject personality and story. They also talk about the ethical conundrums of creating virtual people, and how the film stars of tomorrow might be AI-driven algorithms.