Hollywood embraces new era of virtual actors and holodeck shoots
In the final part of our Future of Entertainment series, we examine how the pandemic has transformed film production
7 May 2021 • 12:03pm
After the beloved co-star of the
Fast and the Furious films died in a car crash in 2013, Caleb and Cody Walker submitted to high-definition face scans at the University of Southern California (USC), creating enough data to superimpose a seamless digital mask onto a lookalike actor in hundreds of finished shots.
"It looked amazing. You really couldn't tell the difference," says Kathleen Haase, special projects manager at USC's Institute for Creative Technologies who is credited as a producer on