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This Mario Mega Man Mashup Is Marvelous

This Mario Mega Man Mashup Is Marvelous
Two of the best all-time Nintendo games are Super Mario Bros. and Mega Man. So I can think of no better Nintendo hero than one who combines Mario and Mega Man himself. This fun mashup comes courtesy of CG artist Yago De Amorim, who says the inspiration came from a…
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Lamborghini Huracán Snowmobile: Snomo Lambo

Lamborghini Huracán Snowmobile: Snomo Lambo
This winter get yourself a real snowmobile. Something with real power and style. Something like this Lamborghini Huracán snowmobile designed by Rain Prisk Designs. You’ll wish you had snow year round if you owned a snowmobile like this one. This design is really amazing. Turning a Lamborghini Huracan into a…
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Changing Faces in Videos in Real Time: Literally Putting Words in Someone Else’s Mouth

Changing Faces in Videos in Real Time: Literally Putting Words in Someone Else’s Mouth
Last October, we checked out a tracking and animation system that creates a realistic computer animated face based on one person’s face and another person’s facial movements. Most of the researchers continued to work on that system, taking it to its logical conclusion. It can now plaster the resulting animation…
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Disney FaceDirector Combines Two Takes Into One: Scene, Take 1, Version 1.1

Disney FaceDirector Combines Two Takes Into One: Scene, Take 1, Version 1.1
Last October we checked out a fascinating animation technique that transfers facial movements from one person to another in real-time. Disney Research’s FaceDirector on the other hand blends two different takes of an actor’s face into one customizable performance. FaceDirector synchronizes two source performances based on facial cues – the…
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Real-Time Facial Expression Transfer: Virtual Face/Off

Real-Time Facial Expression Transfer: Virtual Face/Off
In the near future, you may be able to make yourself speak in any language, or have video proof of your friend saying he loves to eat poop. It’s all thanks to a new tracking and animation system that can transfer the facial movements of one person into a photorealistic…
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Ford’s Immersive Cinematic Engineering Tech Makes Virtual Cars Look Like Real Cars

Ford’s Immersive Cinematic Engineering Tech Makes Virtual Cars Look Like Real Cars
Over the last few decades, computer graphics have become a more and more essential part of industrial design – especially in the automotive industry. The ability to visualize designs digitally has given designers and engineers the freedom to test and refine concepts and functionality prior to expending time and money…
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Watch As Mario Travels Through Tokyo

Watch As Mario Travels Through Tokyo
This video is sort of snapshot of a typical day for our Italian plumber friend Mario. On this day, he has to make his way through Tokyo, otherwise he will be late for a very important event.…
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The LEGO Movie Teaser Trailer Released: A Brickbuster Motion Picture

The LEGO Movie Teaser Trailer Released: A Brickbuster Motion Picture
If you’ve been reading Technabob for any length of time, you probably know that we’re huge fans of LEGO and LEGO paraphernalia. Now, it turns out that Hollywood is jumping onto the LEGO bandwagon with the upcoming release of The LEGO Movie.…
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Gundam Learns How to Walk

Gundam Learns How to Walk
I always thought the Gundam already knew how to walk, but apparently the giant mech never really knew how to do it properly. So leave it to some enterprising Japanese geek to come up with a way to get Gundam to learn how to walk using a CGI physics engine.…
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Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon Recreated in CGI

Building the LEGO Millennium Falcon Recreated in CGI
I’ve always wanted to try and build that Ultimate LEGO Millennium Falcon kit, but just never had the time or patience to do it. Never mind the fact that the kit is so collectible, that it sells for over $2,000 these days. Happily, we can now live vicariously through a…
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Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan Demo Lives Up to its Name

Unreal Engine 3 Samaritan Demo Lives Up to its Name
…no not so much the samaritan part – the UNREAL ENGINE part. Honest to god, the graphics in this newly released real-time demo footage running on Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 is the best looking bit of game engine footage I’ve ever laid eyes on.…
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Obsolete: Homeless ‘Bot Begs For Energy

Obsolete: Homeless ‘Bot Begs For Energy
Artist Pawel Hynek‘s striking image isn’t all that recent, but it’s thought-provoking to say the least. The image features an almost derelict robot begging for power in exchange for processing data. It’s funny, but uncomfortable at the same time, since many people will lose or have lost their jobs due…
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Robot + Boombox + Dance Moves + Styx = Awesome

Robot + Boombox + Dance Moves + Styx = Awesome
I just stumbled onto this short film starring a robot and a boombox, and it really made me smile. The little red guy looks like one of those wind-up toys you might get over at General Robots, and the boom box is one of those classic Lasonics numbers that you…
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Great Cg Robots: Perfect for Desktop Wallpaper

Great Cg Robots: Perfect for Desktop Wallpaper
Suraj from Machoarts put together this roundup of great digital robot illustrations. Most of these can be downloaded as wallpapers for your computer. Here are a few that tickled my fancy.…
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Man Abducted by… Butterflies?

Man Abducted by… Butterflies?
Our Senseless But Awesome Video of the Day is brought to us by YouTube user retletter. Do you love butterflies? Well they love you too. Very much:…
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Space Foosball: Foosball Gets Virtual

Space Foosball: Foosball Gets Virtual
Space Foosball is a modern-day spin on the old foosball table does away with those mechanical men and ping pong balls and replaces them with pixels and a physics engine. The cool thing about the virtual foosball players and ball is that they’re still controlled by the same sort of…
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