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