More from the aMAZing Activision tech demo!

The folks at Activision have created the most stunningly lifelike characters ever, unvieled at this year's GDC. If you haven't already, check out the breathtaking video in the previous post. Here are some additional screenshots. I can't wait till we see this level of realism in games. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. Bravo, Activision.


Click to enlarge and get the full, unbelievable effect:


Activision had the following to say:

Our talk in GDC 2013, Next-Generation Character Rendering, is a few hours away. On it, we will present what represents to us the culmination of many years of work in photorealistic characters. We will show how each detail is the secret for achieving reality. For us, the challenge goes beyond entertaining; it’s more about creating a medium for better expressing emotions, and reaching the feelings of the players. We believe this technology brings current generation characters, into next generation life. At 180 fps in a Geforce GTX 680. The team behind this technology consists on Javier Von Der Pahlen (Director of R&D), Etienne Danvoye (Technical Director), Bernardo Antoniazzi (Techical Art Director), Zbyněk Kysela (Modeler and Texture Artist), Mike Eheler (Programming & Support) and me (Real-Time Graphics R&D). You have a teaser of the slides here: Next-Generation-Character-Rendering-Teaser.pptx