ABSTRACT
AS WE HAVE TRAVERSED through the concepts and code that bring digital characters to life,we are reminded by how quickly this has all come together. Moore’s Law stipulates that the transistor density of semiconductor chips would double roughly every 18 months, meaning that the chip complexity would also be proportional to this rate. While digital characters and their interactive potential is somewhat tied to the speed of the underlying system, the rate at which this technology advances is expected to improve the performance and potential expressiveness of digital characters not only related to the core functioning of the character, but also with regard to all the accessory aspects, such as real-time hair and clothing. Production has conquered anatomy; realistic characters can be created, animated, and rendered to be almost indistinguishable from their live counterparts.What remains, as we discussed previously, is the spirit and heart of the character.
