The Art and Ethics of Digital De Aging ( Part 1 of 2)

From Gilgamesh to Herodotus or Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray to the bloodbaths of Countess Bathory, the search for eternal youth is a powerful trope in storytelling. Its one of those impossible desires: to stall time and stave off the effects that its undeniable march has on us all. Cinema, specifically through visual effects, has long offered such possibility. Practical makeup is one thing; the new wave of computergenerated effects, however, is something else entirely. Digital deaging offer