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. Jensens website has links to most of his key papers: Wetas Alita site is here: Subscribe to our channel is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what s really driving the events in the headlines. Check out Watch our full video catalog: Follow Vox on Facebook: Or Twitter: