"A Synthespian or Cyberstar (Virtual Celebrity) is the digital clone of an human being, in voice and appearance, created and recreated using both CGI3D techniques (tridimensional images generated in computer graphics) and digital animations, and computer systems for the manipulation and creation of sound"
Virtual Celebrities in Entertainment: a short History
A Synthespian or Ciberstar (Virtual Celebrity) is the digital clone of an human being, in voice and appearance, created and recreated using both CGI3D techniques (tridimensional images generated in computer graphics) and digital animations, and computer systems for the manipulation and creation of sound.
In the industry of Entertainment, the first real applications cited in recent history of Cinema were, in 1987, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart digitally cloned for the first digital acting experiments.
A Synthespian or Ciberstar (Virtual Celebrity) is the digital clone of an human being, in voice and appearance, created and recreated using both CGI3D techniques (tridimensional images generated in computer graphics) and digital animations, and computer systems for the manipulation and creation of sound.
In the industry of Entertainment, the first real applications cited in recent history of Cinema were, in 1987, Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart digitally cloned for the first digital acting experiments.
From that point on, several Synthespian creation have followed - contextually with the progressive development of creative technologies for the production of digital VFX - which are way more sophisticated, up to the production of Brad Pitt’s human-realistic for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Jeff Bridge’s in “Tron Legacy 2”.
In 2009, with the production of Avatar, the Cinema sees for the first time the complete technological union with the most advance video games industry, employing technological animation applications for performance’s control in virtual sets, starting the applied research anso in live-entertainment and allowing to use the Virtual Celebrities on stage making them interact directly to the Public.
The first experiment for the usage of a Synthespian (like-not human) in live entertainment, which performed in an Augmented Reality Set, is recorded in August 2009 with the performance of "Hatsune Miku, the Cyberstar" in its first live concert (with synthetic voice produced by a sophisticated Yamaha system) and dancing in front of 25,000 spectators in Japan.
In 2012 the first like-human cyberstar of the music sings live on Coachella’s stage, with the digital recreation of rapper "2Pac - Tupac Shakur", dead in 1996.
In 2013 Rebel Alliance Empowering is the second organization worldwide to digitally recreate on stage a rock star that passed away: Cazuza.
In 2013 Rebel Alliance Empowering is the second organization worldwide to digitally recreate on stage a rock star that passed away: Cazuza.