>20 years ago Peter Jackson had a whole team to do it, across months, with Andy Serkis in a specialized suit, on a specialized camera rig, with amazing lighting and green screens. All to map to a single animation model Golem.

... and to do it outside while doing full-body motion capture while splashing around in streams next to other live actors on film.

It's like comparing music festival hardware with home streamer equipment. Home streamer tech can sound significantly better, for a thousandth of the cost... because you can put up acoustic tiles.

It's a big achievement, but wild comparisons don't do really do it any benefit.

Not to dispute this, but just to suggest that maybe the improvement is "only" four orders of magnitude instead of six, or something: didn't the Gollum animation do full-body motion capture and transfer, and isn't this demo only for the face?