Why it s so hard to make CGI skin look real

Realisticlooking skin isnt all that different from realisticlooking skim milk. In the above video, Voxs Phil Edwards looks at why realistic CGI skin is so hard for visual effects artists to master. Weta Digitals Nick Epstein and Luxions Henrik Wann Jensen serve as guides to the parameters that separate realisticlooking skin from the waxy, fakelooking CGI of the past: albedo, displacements, subsurface scattering, and dynamic changes. Theres been extraordinary progress from the cuttingedge CGI characters in 2001s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within to 2019s Alita: Battle Angel. This video shows a bit about how that happened.