Impressive Motion Capture Facial Animation

This video was sent to me by Geekologie Reader Trevor, who works for Janimation, the company behind the project. It features the company's latest and greatest in motion-capture and facial animation technology. It's some fairly serious eye candy. And by eye candy I mean eerily realistic footage of an angry bum with poor hygiene. Somebody needs to get their ass a CG toothbrush!

Hit the jump for a minute-and-a-half of C to the G's.

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Thanks Trevor, if you get a raise I want a cut.

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