Digital Ira - NVIDIA FaceWorks Human Face TechDemo

This techdemo, in my honest opinion, definitely takes it up a notch compared to Quantic Dream's "Human Emotion" demo shown during the Playstation 4 conference. These real-time rendering face demos never fail to look creepier each time this kind of technology advances.

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For those interested, here's a description straight from NVIDIA's website:

Meet "Digital Ira". Ira represents a big leap forward in capturing and rendering human facial expression in real time, and gives us a glimpse of the realism we can look forward to in our favorite game characters.

This demonstration highlights the state of the art in performance capture. All Ira''s motions were acted out in a "light stage" at the Institute for Creative Technology at USC. The team there headed by Dr. Paul Debevec is able to photographically capture facial geometry, surface detail, and lighting information of an actor without any of the traditional tricks of face markers or special makeup.

This light stage data is pulled into NVIDIA''s demo engine, and using FaceWorks rendering technology we witness a realism of human facial rendering never before seen in real time. FaceWorks shading gives Ira lifelike skin, eyes, lips and teeth. Adaptive tessellation keeps the curves of his face perfectly smooth.

Play with this interactive demo to see Ira immersed in three different lighting environments. Adjust his skin rendering to see the effect of sub surface light transmission through his skin. And, see the realism of his facial motion as he stares you down with a myriad of lifelike expressions.

Download the demo and try it out for yourself:
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For those who want to know what my PC has under the hood, here are my specs, which to be honest isn't anything special:

My System Specs:

*AMD FX-8320 Piledriver CPU, OCed to 4.640GHz
*16GB [4 x 4GB] of 1600MHz of DDR3 RAM, OCed to 2006MHz with 9-11-9-24-2T timings
*2 NVIDIA GeForce GTX480's in SLI
*1 NVIDIA GeForce GTX460 for dedicated PhysX
*128GB Crucial M4 Solid State Drive
*4TB RAID0 Hard Disk Array strictly for Games and Apps
*1TB JBOD Hard Disk Array for Media and Long-Term Storage
* Corsair AX1200 1200 Watt Power Supply

OS Used: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
NVIDIA Drivers Used: 320.00
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Thanks for watching!

[kitemett]

Ah Awesome, hadn't read the full description and google turned up nothing. Might check it out in 3d thanks ;)

[lucimon]

it don't run with gt 640m, right?

[minimur]

another thing, I thought the face on deep down looked better than quantic's tech demo, he said that model had 30k polys but on PS3, Uncharted drakes deception Nate Drake has 30k polys himself, so quatic couldve done it better (50k polys or anything like that)

[Lpedraja]

4:00 - If a horror game ever uses that face for a serial killer or jump scares I would shit my pants.

[minimur]

I will agree, I love playstation(lol) but its obvious that this is better, BUT you must bear in mind that this guy doesn't have any hair, rendering hair always takes a bit out of it (yeah he was old, and nearly bald, but this guy has no hair atall ^.^)

[lucimon]

i got a new notebook and win7 is rare if you don't want secondhand bullshit