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Digital Humans on the Big Screen


de-aged Robert DeNiro in 'The Irishman'

One of several de-aged versions of Robert DeNiro's character appearing in "The Irishman."

Credit: Netflix

Artificial images have been around almost as long as movies. As computing power has grown and digital photography has become commonplace, special effects have increasingly been created digitally, and have become much more realistic as a result.

ACM's Turing Award for 2019 to Patrick M. Hanrahan and Edwin E. Catmull reflected in part their contributions to computer-generated imagery (CGI), notably at the pioneering animation company Pixar.


 

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