I though they use prosthetic makeup to make Brad Pitt look like over 80 in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”. It is shocked and surprising for me to realize that they “create completely digital human head.”
For the team of artist and technologists and filmmakers in that film, they contributed to the amazing technological application because of their desire to make the authenticity of aging backwards of a man. In their words, “it’s not a special effects film; it has to be a man”. David Fincher, the director, he wanted a “sympathetic character”. Then, they filmed different bodies of actors for the use of different ages of Benjamin, and they create “a computer-generated version of Brad’s head” to match with the bodies.
After years of trying, the team eventually was inspired by the idea of Facial Action Coding System from Dr. Paul Ekman who believed “there were 70 basic poses or shapes of the human face and that from those basic poses or shapes of the face, they can be combined to create infinite possibilities of everything the human face is capable of doing.”Following this idea, they found the technology－Contour: “Brad stands in front of a computer array of cameras, and those cameras can, frame by frame, reconstruct geometry of what Brad’s doing at the moment.”Through this, they built up a 3D data in the real time of Brad’s face.
They invited a special effect maker and a photoreal sculptor to get through the process and then “retargeted”, so they can have a full database of Brad that allowed them to transpose Brad at 44 to Brad at 87.
They created lighting system, eye system and even a mouth system to match what Benjamin should be in scene.
Their work is profound. The film got people to watch different stage of Benjamin, and made the remediation of Brad or Benjamin disappear, what they gain is just “The Benjamin.”
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