Virtual Human Stuff 1.0

Posted From The U.S.

Some floating thoughts on virtual humans:

• A key project goal should be to cross the "Uncanny Valley"
• Poser 6.0 looks pretty nice - probably worth the upgrade from 5.0, although it's still in Mori's Valley (I have done a few things that may have crossed the line slightly)
• Someone academic with interest in virtual humans
• Softimage FaceRobot package (a bit creepy)
• An impressive 3d virtual human
• Blog of artist who made cool 3d human
• wierd virtual human art link
• Eyetronics - selling digital human data
• PBS article on virtual actors
• MSNBC article on virtual actors
• How to make virtual faces
• How to build a virtual human from Kurzweil.net
• Some criticism of Final Fantasy's virtual humans
• Human photo references for 3d animation
• BBC article on virtual humans
• 3d human character test - pretty nice
• Dawn, realistic 3d human/fairy animation test

-r