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Imagine Metrics producer David Barton
photographed at the offices of Image Metrics in Santa Monica, California, November 13, 2006

On October 14, 2006, in a New York Times article entitled "Technology that Captures the Soul," Sharon Waxman reports on the uncanny verisimilitude created through a process of "marker-less performance capture" of facial expressions by technology developed by Image Metrics of Santa Monica, California.

While it'll cost you $4.95 to access this article in its entirety, in a version that, according to the Times. does not "include photos, charts or graphics," you can, immediately below, watch a three-part video interview with Image Metrics producer David Barton in which he explains and demonstrates on camera the inner workings of the Image Metrics performance capture process and talks about its application in present and future video games and feature films.

You can watch and listen to that interview, in its entirety, by clicking on the appropriate menu button in the Brightcove Player containing the Digital Media Channel below.

You can learn more about the Image Metrics system, and the company behind it, by clicking here.

 

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