AlterEgo Shows Off Incredibly Realistic 3D Animated Faces

The pictures are nice, but the text of the "article" made me laugh out loud. A choice snippet:

Called Alter Ego, this software basically takes advantage of blend shapes to copy facial idiosyncrasies and produce emotive life-like 3D character animations.

Wow, that's so insightful! Could you copy-n-paste more of the press release, please?

Those faces are deep, DEEP in the uncanny valley, but they're not falling in, they're climbing out.

I like the flexibility in the animations, but the mannerisms of each expression doesn't seem to fit well with the person. I wonder if this software will take advantage of characteristic expressions and not use the same animation points to produce expressions and actions.

They eyes still need lots of work. That's going to be the final frontier of the "uncanny valley". The eyes move, change focus and refract light differently hundreds of times per minute. It will make rendering realistic water look like an Amiga rendering a bouncing ball in 1989.

wow, I'm curious how long those took to render.

what do you think, another two decades till actors are obsolete? ;-)