Technology is absolutely amazing! And as much as I try to keep up and stay current with software and such, I feel I’m failing miserably. I need to go back to school or something to catch up because whatever is able to do THIS is really something.

How in the world is this done?

That’s how my brain works. I don’t go, “Oh, that’s cool!” or “Oh, how funny!”. No, I go “HOW did they DO that?” And I want to learn how. This is what I found over at VizWorld:

MPS helped Evian make their latest commercial where a group of choreographed roller-skating babies dance to The Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight. They filmed 134 different babies and then matched live-action heads with CG bodies over motion tracked data.

“MPC’s team of animators used Autodesk Maya to create the baby skaters’ bodies. To ensure the babies appear fully realistic, it was important to carefully match movements, paying special attention to interaction between the shoulders, neck and head. To help achieve this, full CG babies were created and their heads were replaced later by the live action versions from the shoot by MPC’s compositing team led by Ludo Fealy.”

I then followed links over to Eat3d.com.

NOW! That’s incredible technology. I won’t know what to believe when I see it anymore. Like this video I saw on Good Morning America.

I REALLY wanted to believe that this was a bunch of guys with a tremendous amount of time on their hands.

But is it really?