If it's just a Virtual Actor, then why am I feeling real emotions?
Being a rumination on the ancient craft of puppetry and
the legendary search for the simulcrum, golum, homonculus,
or Frankenstein's monster, compared and contrasted with the 1990s
technology of Real Time Animation (RTA), also known as Performance
Animation (PA), and the new chimera of the so-called synthespian or
Virtual Actor (VActorTM).
- Ceaser and Cleopatra quote
- other "Illusion of Life" quote
- puppeteeers union
- Rowlf the dog / Jim Henson
- KGB chicken
- enginnering vs. operations
- Disney pegs on bottom
- Walt acts out Snow White
- Chuck Jones stories: posing, "beep beep," quiet explosion
- Robin Williams at Disney animation, Walt and the orchestra
- the chess-playing "robot" on the glass tube
- "even better than the real thing" (Bono as PA)
- PROMISE THEM INTERACTIVITY, THEN DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM (Star Tours, Tower of Terror ads)
- Dick Nunis and the Yakoose
- radio-controlled "robot" in malls
- Sirius Cybernetics Corporation (we don't want user-friendly)
- Cyber Lucy