“With the Virtual Human, there’s nothing we cannot do,” says Daniel Seah, a Taiwan Generation T lister and CEO of Hollywood special effects studio Digital Domain.
And he’s not kidding around. Let his technicians scan you for a few hours, and Digital Domain can create an almost perfect 3D likeness—a digital version of you they can make do practically anything.
In movies, the technology has helped the studio win nine Oscars in the last two decades, used to render characters in everything from Beauty and the Beast to Black Panther. Most recently, the technology was used to create the character Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War.
Today, Digital Domain doesn’t even need to scan the subject; it can create a digital avatar by taking data from videos. That’s exactly what the studio did when it brought two beloved performers “back to life”.