Monday, March 9, 2009

Benjamin Button's Head

How does TED talk about Benjamin Button's head relate to the scientific method?

The movie (the curious case of Benjamin Button) Character Benjamin's head is actually completely digital, purpose is because an age 45 actor Brad Pitt is acting this character, so no matter how much makeup he puts on, it's still hard to make him look like an old man.
The people who are producing the movie made a few hypothesis, they thought taking a challenge of making a digital head is better then putting on makeups on for Brad Pitt, and they decided to take the challenge of the digital head.
The way of making the digital head, they used a technology called "contuor" They needed a paint that is for contuor put on Brad Pitt's face and they will see the 3D head in the computer. That is the material they needed
they went through many steps during their procedure, they had took many shots during the movie, it was really difficult to combine a completely digital head of Brad Pitt on some other actor's body.
The movie crew observed that the technology contuor is better then the older technology for making 3D head which only had 100 polygons, and makeup.
They had tested and went through their observations for makeup, older technology for 3D head, and contuor, and their analysis was that contuor seemed to be the best solution out of all, since it has the best performence.