Our culture’s fascination with digitized humanity takes another step

The Promise of Digital Doubles | Studio Daily.

This article is about a new technology in the motion picture industry for creating “digital doubles.” These are animated version of actors that can pass as real under many normal viewing situations.

Scroll to the bottom of the article to see the video (which is all digital double until the very end).

This goes a long way beyond having to edit film so that stunt doubles appearing on screen never (or only briefly) show their faces. Now an actor’s performance can be grafted onto any other filmed or digital “rig” as they call it.

So this is related to music made with musical samples. But much more computationally advanced and intensive.