Creating Benjamin Button’s Face Through CGI

Want to help support this blog? Try out Oh Dear, the best all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website, co-founded by me (the guy that wrote this blogpost). Start with a 10-day trial, no strings attached.

We offer uptime monitoring, SSL checks, broken links checking, performance & cronjob monitoring, branded status pages & so much more. Try us out today!

Profile image of Mattias Geniar

Mattias Geniar, April 26, 2009

Follow me on Twitter as @mattiasgeniar

A very impressive take on creating Benjamin Buttons face, using the most modern CGI known to man. Did you even realise the first hour of the movie was a completely computer animated face? Every action, reaction, motion and emotion of Brad Pitt’s face was interpreted by a computer, and transformed to a face which aged roughly 45 years. And it looked 100% real.

All in all, the movie A Curious Case of Benjamin Button is worth viewing, but especially so after watching that little making-off! Amazing what technology can accomplish these days …



Want to subscribe to the cron.weekly newsletter?

I write a weekly-ish newsletter on Linux, open source & webdevelopment called cron.weekly.

It features the latest news, guides & tutorials and new open source projects. You can sign up via email below.

No spam. Just some good, practical Linux & open source content.