If you’ve ever wondered how Brad Pitt as Benjamin Button ‘aged backwards’, Paul Debevec would be a good man to ask. His Light Stage devices were used to help create photoreal digital faces in movies such as Spider Man 2, Superman Returns and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
The project he presented in Wellington was Digital Emily, almost a proof of concept. Paul Debevec leads the graphics laboratory at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Creative Technologies (USCICT). He’s a geek, in the sense that he’s very passionate about some stuff that not a lot of us understand.
