A newly developed CGI rendering technique is about to take CGI renditions of human skin to an “uncanny valley” level of creepy. Until now, rendering only created “mesoscale” details such as pores and wrinkles. This new CGI method captures details on a “microscale” which includes the texture within pores and extremely fine lines. Normally, skin microstructures that are under one-tenth of a millimeter are not reconstructed in CGI, even though they have a large impact in the way we perceive facial expressions.
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