Sentence examples for digital actor from inspiring English sources

The specter of the digital actor -- a kind of cyberslave who does the producer's bidding without a whimper or salary -- has been a figure of terror for the last few years in Hollywood, as early technical experiments proved that it was at least possible to create a computer image that could plausibly replace a human being.

Increasingly, human actors work collaboratively with digital agents such as robots, adding a digital actor to the organization.

Debevec thinks that it won't be long before digital actors begin replacing human actors for entire performances.

Digital actors who can carry a feature film - that's another thing".

But what if the technologies for reanimating dead stars and for creating digital actors could be merged?

In the meantime, digital technology was evolving toward the creation of wholly digital actors, who could do anything they were told and would never demand a roomier trailer.

With all the dinosaurs, apes, robots, digital actors and artificial intelligence on screen, it's often hard to connect with anybody real.

Fincher, who began his career working in visual effects, at Industrial Light & Magic, also made "Benjamin Button," and he seems especially comfortable with the concept of digital actors.

The technological tools that might allow computer animators to create convincing digital actors would also give producers and directors the ability to alter or augment a performance, whether the actor likes it or not.

And the Screen Actors Guild, which has closely monitored the use of digital actors since the emergence of Jar Jar Binks, says it will do so with even more vigor as photo-real characters actually begin to appear on the screen.

The greater concern is not that digital actors will replace movie stars -- even the most optimistic projections of the technology put that prospect far in the future -- but that the technology may make it easier for the unscrupulous to make improper use of actors' images (or of digital creations that are strikingly reminiscent of celebrities).