Can you tell what it is yet?

I can't help but thinking of this scene from the Simpson's after viewing the 'Ralph Going's image presented in the lecture.

anyway! after that quick interlude I want to to talk about the use of realism in 3d animation and how the synthespians replace actors in their roles.

Ivan gave the example of 'Final Fantasy: Spirits within' as synthespian's replacing actors in a fully animated film which was elaborated upon by Malcolm in the seminar afterwards. This led to a discussion on the animatrix film 'Final flight of the Osiris' which used the same technology (and some characters) from the Final Fantasy film.

He also talked about the use of synthespians and the film 'Simone' where a woman is modelled and shown to be real. This example of catharsis (what you take from assets you view) segued into the fact that actors effectively take a characters identity and almost become that character in the film (Erin Brokovich was used as the example)