Photoreal Prototype Character for OnLive™: Geni4

Photoreal CG head driven by Contour data, with Mental Ray® render in Maya®.

Photoreal CG head driven by Contour data, running in real-time in Epic's Unreal® Engine 3.

Applying special phosphorescent makeup to a model for a Contour Reality Capture

Four stages of Mova’s Contour Reality Capture system, resulting in a high resolution, photoreal animated character.

From Live Performance to Photoreal Animation with Mova’s Contour Reality Capture system.

Photos of the 3-D Zoetrope with 30 3-D sculptures of a live-action actor's face. When the wheel spins, a strobe light flashes in sync with the rotation, illuminating the faces in fixed positions, and creating the illusion that the faces are speaking. The faces were captured from a live-action performance with Mova Contour Reality Capture, and printed using a 3-D stereolithography printer by Gentle Giant Studios.

When the 3-D Zoetrope spins, a strobe light stops each 3-D model into a fixed position, so it appears to be moving while steadily in place. When the strobe light is turned off, the faces appear as a blur, as shown in these photos.

Each 3-D sculpture is a precise reconstruction of a 3-D capture of the surface of the actor's face in motion, accurate to a fraction of a millimeter. The face was captured by Mova Contour Reality Capture, and printed using a 3-D stereolithography printer by Gentle Giant Studios. One of the 3-D Scultpures is coming out of a 3-D stereolithography printer in this photo.