Animated Human Faces Are Getting Frighteningly Real

How lifelike are animated faces getting? Check out the video below from Janimation. "This is a test on some facial animation R & D we've been working on here at Janimation," one of the engineers explains. "We used Softimage Face Robot as a base and then used our own ICE tech, Zbrush for modeling the head and its facial shapes, and of course Arnold to polish it off." It is pretty cool—scary, in fact—but I feel like I see something like this every year or so and then never hear about it again.