Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Anyone?

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a progressive, repetitive stress injury involving the nerves, ligaments, and muscles of the wrist. As a digital artist, it is your number one occupational hazard, like knee injuries in sports. The above image was generated by Anatoly Zenkov using a simple Java applet, which you can down load from the flickr comments and try yourself. Thousands of very precise movements and mouse clicks in just 3 hours! Do the math and decide for yourself; automation or physical therapy...

via Gizmodo

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Later in this 22 minute making-of piece, you get to see some of the character capture work done on the film. This is the modern and extreme example of "information transfer" that we talked about in class on tuesday.