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I was inspired by my friend Charmaine’s Looking Outwards post 05. This post is about a CG company in Tokyo that creates 3D models and develops character concept design. Among many other things created by company ModelingCafe, Charmaine focused her research on Imma, a computer generated fashion model. This computer generated model has a twitter and instagram account, where someone weekly posts an image of her.
The gap between the computer generated model, Imma, and real-life person is almost non existent that it is a little creepy. If one did not know who Imma is, one would have easily thought that she is another human being posting pictures on Instagram. Although it is really cool to see the impact of technology on media, I am concerned with the unintended consequences of this type of digital technology. I hope people do not misuse or abuse the ability to render and create identical copies of humans.