Rocky: virtual sculpting as the basis for computer generated character development

Аннотация

Human beings have two perfectly aligned eyeballs working together sending three-dimensional images to the brain and providing accurate depth perception. I lack true stereoscopic vision. When I was five years old I had my second eye surgery and I remember lying blind and terrified for two days in the children’s ward of Reid Memorial Hospital in Richmond, Indiana. I later learned that my eyes didn’t align properly and for the rest of my life my right eye would “wander”. Because of my condition, I was given a list of jobs that I could never perform, jobs where human lives are entrusted to skilled professionals wielding scalpels or landing jets. I could never be one of those people. Or so I was told. I’ve always had excellent vision, nearly 20/20 my whole life and I’ve never struggled academically. It’s just that my eyes don’t point in the same direction like everybody else. Those who know me best can see it, but I’ve learned ways to make it not so obvious. It’s all I’ve ever known. But, in an ironic twist of fate, it’s become clear that my lazy eye has taught me to “see” better than the average artist.