Human looking Sales Person

[www.sitepal.co.uk]

Hi

Please meet Tom

http://www.sitepal.co.uk/tom.htm

He would like to know if you would give him a job on your site.

Leave your feedback here, Thanks

Best

Tony

[barry.hynd]

Hi Tony,

As you know I have Hamish my little sitepal butler on my site. To be honest I prefer him to this, I dont really think that this effect works. It looks very amateurish and I certainly wouldn't put it on my site. I think the characters work far better and I really dont grasp whats trying to be acheived with this human looking character.

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Barry

Thanks for your feedback on this

Oddcast are getting close to software that will change a photo of your face into a virtual character.

So Tom is really taking a step towards that, although it could take years to finish to a high standard.

Regards

Tony

[epiphany]

I don't know if you remember but bud light used to have a promotion going where you could upload your face as a picture then make it speak like this. It was a free gimmick which most people used for comedy :) This one you have posted is definitely better and shows the development in this type of programming. I still think his face looks a bit deformed and I personally would prefer the cartoon character.

Also as the type of person that likes to do everything myself I would prefer to film myself talking as opposed to letting a computer animate my face for me :)

[Webstuff]

I'm sorry, but it makes me think of South Park, when they animate photos of real people. Especially the scary eyes :P Prefer the cartoon characters myself, but as you say, the technology is still in development.

[keirms]

Personally I think it's amazing. I'm not a fan of sound on websites but I can see a future where instead of being given a choice of entering a flash or static site, you will be given a choice of an animated or flash site.

I think the technology is still not there, but it's in the forseeable future and as long as it's used correctly I think there can be a benefit.

Keir

[epiphany]

A site in Flash is an animated site as Flash is basically an animation programme :D I think all the sitepal stuff is done in flash.

[Webstuff]

Imagine a web with nothing but flash... *shudder*

interesting concept, but still prefer the cartoons. Keep us up to date on any breakthroughs ;)

[www.sitepal.co.uk]

Imagine a web with nothing but flash... *shudder*

interesting concept, but still prefer the cartoons. Keep us up to date on any breakthroughs ;)

The future will be characters delivering a message on mob phones to sell your products and get folks to visit your website.

This is all New!! i will keep you up to date

Best

Tony

[chris1317]

I think there is a lot more of this to come with faster connections and the like. We will soon see a lot more of these popping up.

I like the idea of putting a face on it but it is quite a complex process for the program to recognise all of the different parts of the face, proportions, shading ect to generate a 3d model. Its number crunching work. Its either create a program clever enough to do that with a high level of accuracy or do it manualy. Either way its not cheap.

I think for now the only way for someone to create a perfect one of these would be to have your face imaged in a 3d imaging machine (not sure if thats the proper name), you know the things with the lasers.

Chris.