# Easy way to make CGI people

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697 "2021-02-11T15:32:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697/1 "2021-02-11T15:32:36Z")

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This company Epic Games is a few miles from where I live

[https://www.fastcompany.com/90603474/the-company-behind-fortnite-just-made-it-shockingly-easy-to-create-life-like-people](https://www.fastcompany.com/90603474/the-company-behind-fortnite-just-made-it-shockingly-easy-to-create-life-like-people)

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**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697/2 "2021-02-11T15:39:50Z")

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Combine this with the technology to animate these figures on the fly and synthesize text to realistic, emotive speech - both of which are developing alarmingly quickly - and soon actors may be as obsolete as coal miners and buggy drivers. Automation is coming for the white collar types and the elites as well, not just blue collar manual laborers.

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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697/3 "2021-02-11T16:19:02Z")

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Hopefully this will leak out to the general public and we will never see self-published books using Fractal Design Poser models again.

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**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697/4 "2021-02-12T14:35:33Z")

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Epic bought a recently closed mall and is going to turn that into their new HQ campus. It’s only a few miles from their current HQ. For now they are letting Dave and Busters stay open in the mall everything else is closed.

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**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/easy-way-to-make-cgi-people/932697/5 "2021-02-12T15:20:58Z")

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The world of porn will never be the same again.