Visual effects house Digital Domain demonstrated notable work toward advancing facial capture and the ability to create a digital human with its Oscar-winning CG version of Brad Pitt in 2008’s The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. On Monday, the film’s VFX supervisor Eric Barba is still working to further develop this area at Digital Domain — and based on a demonstration clip that he recently shared with The Hollywood Reporter, the company may be getting closer to doing just that.
Its new process, dubbed Direct Drive, starts with capturing a facial performance using the Mova system that earlier in its development was employed on Benjamin Button and more recently on films such as Gravity and Guardians of the Galaxy. The Mova system captures the facial performance of an actor who is wearing ultraviolet makeup, using a specially designed camera rig. The Direct Drive process then employs some proprietary technology to apply the Mova camera data to a CG human or creature.
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