Everyone has an ideal image of someone to fall in love with. We hope to meet that ideal one day, but did it ever happen to anyone? Of course, some people will say yes, but if honestly, not so many. CG technologies give us this chance – to create (at least in computer) someone you have been dreaming of.

We all know that 3D still lacks this look of really natural human appearance, so Image Metrics promises that soon in games and movies there will be characters phenomenally similar to live, thus completely computer created. As an example of the next breakthrough in the field of CG they show the virtual girl, Emily by name, created with this new technology. Her video demonstrates the smallest details of a live human face.

about your month payment - 400GBP Emily creation has begun with filming a video conversation with one of the company employees. Then they have broken up face muscles movements into tens of smaller ones, and each got its own "control system". After that the computer repeated step by step Emily body movements. As researchers say, their aim was to overcome common difficulties in the process of a human face animation, such, as unnatural skin or too much symmetry in body movements. Still, more attention they gave to eyes creation.

"We have spent a lot of time, trying to make it so that people would believe they see human eyes. Actually, this task took 90 per cent of our work, - says Mike Starkenberg, executive director of Image Metrics. - Besides, there is one peculiar feature in human appearance - natural asymmetry which includes face muscles. Such defects are insignificant and we don’t notice them, but this is what makes people look live".

Before, to create a CG face animation of a character they used to put the dots on the face, and their movement was recorded by special gauges which transferred it into computer. The Image Metrics technology can record the movement of each pixel of a person's face - even the smallest movements on the skin, for example, around the eyes.

So, pretty soon, looking at the screen we won’t even spot any difference between a 3D girl and a real one.