Ed Ulbrich: How Benjamin Button got his face

Prevodilac: Ivana Korom Lektor: Ivana Gadjanski

I'm here today representing a team of artists and technologists and filmmakers

Danas ovde predstavljam tim umetnika, tehničara i filmadžija, koji su

that worked together on a remarkable film project for the last four years.

zajedno radili na izuzetnom filmskom projektu u poslednje četiri godine.

And along the way they created a breakthrough in computer visualization.

Tokom tog rada, napravili su proboj u kompjuterskoj vizualizaciji.

So I want to show you a clip of the film now.

Sada želim da vam pokažem insert iz filma.

Hopefully it won't stutter.

Nadam se da neće zastajkivati.

And if we did our jobs well, you won't know that we were even involved.

I ako smo dobro uradili svoje poslove, nećete ni znati da smo bili prisutni.

Voice (Video): I don't know how it's possible ...

Glas (video): Ne znam da li je moguće --

but you seem to have more hair.

ali izgleda da imaš više kose.

Brad Pitt: What if I told you that I wasn't getting older ...

Bred Pit: Šta bi bilo kad bih ti rekao da ja ne starim...

but I was getting younger than everybody else?

nego postajem mlađi od svih ostalih?

I was born with some form of disease.

Rođen sam s nekom vrstom bolesti.

Voice: What kind of disease?

Glas: Kakvom vrstom bolesti?

BP: I was born old.

BP: Rođen sam star.

Man: I'm sorry.

Čovek: Žao mi je.

BP: No need to be. There's nothing wrong with old age.

BP: Nema potrebe. Nema ništa loše sa starošću.

Girl: Are you sick?

Devojčica: Da li si bolestan?

BP: I heard momma and Tizzy whisper,

BP: Čuo sam da mama i Tizi šapuću

and they said I was gonna die soon.

kako ću uskoro da umrem.

But ... maybe not.

Ali... možda i neću.

Girl: You're different than anybody I've ever met.

Devojčica: Ti si drugačiji od svih koje znam.

BB: There were many changes ...

BP: Bilo je mnogo promena...

some you could see, some you couldn't.

neke su bile primetne, druge ne.

Hair started growing in all sorts of places,

Dlake su počele da rastu na svakakvim mestima,

along with other things.

kao i neke druge stvari.

I felt pretty good, considering.

S obzirom na sve, osećao sam se prilično dobro.

Ed Ulbrich: That was a clip from "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

Ed Ulbrih: To je insert iz "Čudesnog slučaja Bendžamina Batona".

Many of you, maybe you've seen it or you've heard of the story,

Mnogi od vas su ga možda već videli ili čuli priču,

but what you might not know

ali ono što ne znate je da je,

is that for nearly the first hour of the film,

tokom skoro celog prvog sata filma,

the main character, Benjamin Button, who's played by Brad Pitt,

glavni junak, Bendžamin Baton, koga igra Bred Pit,

is completely computer-generated from the neck up.

u potpunosti kompjuterski generisan od vrata na gore.

Now, there's no use of prosthetic makeup

Scenska šminka nije bila od koristi,

or photography of Brad superimposed over another actor's body.

kao ni Bredova fotografija, montirana na telo drugog glumca.

We've created a completely digital human head.

Stvorili smo potpuno digitalnu ljudsku glavu.

So I'd like to start with a little bit of history on the project.

Počeću sa istorijskim podacima o projektu.

This is based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story.

Film je baziran na kratkoj priči F. Skota Ficdžeralda.

It's about a man who's born old and lives his life in reverse.

Radi se o čoveku koji je rođen star i živi život unazad.

Now, this movie has floated around Hollywood

Ovaj film je kružio Holivudom

for well over half a century,

više od pola veka,

and we first got involved with the project in the early '90s,

a mi smo se prvi put uključili ranih devedesetih,

with Ron Howard as the director.

kada je Ron Hauard bio režiser.

We took a lot of meetings and we seriously considered it.

Imali smo mnogo sastanaka i ozbiljno smo razmišljali o tome.

But at the time we had to throw in the towel.

Ali u to vreme smo morali da odustanemo.

It was deemed impossible.

Procenili smo da je nemoguće.

It was beyond the technology of the day to depict a man aging backwards.

Tehnologija tog vremena nije mogla da prikaže čovekovo starenje unazad.

The human form, in particular the human head,

Ljudski oblik, a naročito glava,

has been considered the Holy Grail of our industry.

smatrana je za Sveti Gral naše industrije.

The project came back to us about a decade later,

Oko deset godina kasnije projekat nam se vratio,

and this time with a director named David Fincher.

a ovog puta je režiser bio Dejvid Finčer.

Now, Fincher is an interesting guy.

Finčer je zanimljiv tip.

David is fearless of technology,

On se ne boji tehnologije,

and he is absolutely tenacious.

i vrlo je uporan.

And David won't take "no."

Ne prihvata "ne" kao odgovor.

And David believed, like we do in the visual effects industry,

Dejvid je, kao i mi u industriji vizuelnih efekata,

that anything is possible

verovao da je sve moguće, ako imate

as long as you have enough time, resources and, of course, money.

dovoljno vremena, resursa i naravno, novca.

And so David had an interesting take on the film,

Dejvid je imao zanimljiv pogled na film

and he threw a challenge at us.

i postavio nam je izazov.

He wanted the main character of the film to be played

Želeo je da glavnog lika u filmu, od kolevke

from the cradle to the grave by one actor.

do groba, igra jedan glumac.

It happened to be this guy.

Desilo se da je to ovaj momak.

We went through a process of elimination and a process of discovery

Sa Dejvidom smo prošli procese eliminacije i otkrivanja

with David, and we ruled out, of course, swapping actors.

i naravno, odbacili smo ideju zamene glumaca.

That was one idea: that we would have different actors,

To je bila jedna ideja: mogli smo imati različite glumce,

and we would hand off from actor to actor.

i snimali bismo naizmenično.

We even ruled out the idea of using makeup.

Čak smo odbacili ideju o korišćenju šminke.

We realized that prosthetic makeup just wouldn't hold up,

Shvatili smo da scenska šminka neće uspeti,

particularly in close-up.

naročito u krupnim kadrovima.

And makeup is an additive process. You have to build the face up.

Šminka je slojevit proces. Morate da izgradite lice.

And David wanted to carve deeply into Brad's face

A Dejvid je želeo da duboko ureže u Bredovo lice,

to bring the aging to this character.

da bi njegov lik ostario.

He needed to be a very sympathetic character.

Morao je da bude i vrlo simpatičan karakter.

So we decided to cast a series of little people

Zato smo odlučili da odaberemo nekoliko niskih ljudi

that would play the different bodies of Benjamin

koji bi igrali različita Bendžaminova tela,

at the different increments of his life

u različitim fazama njegovog života,

and that we would in fact create a computer-generated version of Brad's head,

a da kompjuterski napravimo verziju Bredove glave

aged to appear as Benjamin,

da po godinama podseća na Bendžamina,

and attach that to the body of the real actor.

i "povežemo" je na telo pravog glumca.

Sounded great.

Zvučalo je super.

Of course, this was the Holy Grail of our industry,

Naravno, to je bio Sveti Gral naše industrije,

and the fact that this guy is a global icon didn't help either,

a nije pomagala ni činjenica da je ovaj momak globalna ikona,

because I'm sure if any of you ever stand in line at the grocery store,

jer sam siguran da ako nekad stojite u redu u prodavnici

you know -- we see his face constantly.

-- njegovo lice stalno viđamo.

So there really was no tolerable margin of error.

Dakle, uopšte nije bilo mesta za grešku.

There were two studios involved: Warner Brothers and Paramount.

Učestvovala su dva studija: "Warner Brothers" i "Paramount".

And they both believed this would make an amazing film, of course,

Naravno, oba su verovala da će ovo biti izuzetan film,

but it was a very high-risk proposition.

ali to je bio posao visokog rizika.

There was lots of money and reputations at stake.

Mnogo je novca i reputacija bilo na kocki.

But we believed that we had a very solid methodology

Ali mi smo verovali da imamo jako dobru metodologiju

that might work ...

koja bi mogla da uspe...

But despite our verbal assurances,

Ali i pored naših verbalnih uveravanja,

they wanted some proof.

oni su hteli neke dokaze.

And so, in 2004, they commissioned us to do a screen test of Benjamin.

Tako su 2004. tražili od nas da uradimo probnu ekranizaciju Bendžamina.

And we did it in about five weeks.

Uradili smo je za otprilike pet nedelja.

But we used lots of cheats and shortcuts.

Ali dosta smo varali i koristili prečice.

We basically put something together to get through the meeting.

U stvari, samo smo nešto sklepali kako bismo prošli sastanak.

I'll roll that for you now. This was the first test for Benjamin Button.

Sad ću vam to pustiti. Ovo je prvi test Bendžamina Batona.

And in here, you can see, that's a computer-generated head --

Ovde možete videti da je to kompjuterski generisana glava -

pretty good -- attached to the body of an actor.

prilično dobra - montirana na telo nekog glumca.

And it worked. And it gave the studio great relief.

I uspelo je. Studiju je bilo mnogo lakše.

After many years of starts and stops on this project,

Posle dugogodišnjih započinjanja i pauza,

and making that tough decision,

i donošenja teških odluka o ovom projektu,

they finally decided to greenlight the movie.

konačno su odlučili da filmu daju zeleno svetlo.

And I can remember, actually, when I got the phone call to congratulate us,

Zapravo, sećam se telefonskog razgovora u kom su nam čestitali,

to say the movie was a go,

kad su rekli da će se snimati,

I actually threw up.

povratio sam.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

You know, this is some tough stuff.

Znate, ovo je vrlo ozbiljan posao.

So we started to have early team meetings,

Počeli smo sa ranim sastancima tima,

and we got everybody together,

okupili smo sve ljude,

and it was really more like therapy in the beginning,

na početku je to bilo više kao terapija,

convincing each other and reassuring each other that we could actually undertake this.

ubeđivali smo i uveravali jedni druge da možemo ovo da izvedemo.

We had to hold up an hour of a movie with a character.

Trebalo je da stvorimo sat vremena filma sa nekim likom.

And it's not a special effects film; it has to be a man.

To nije film sa specijalnim efektima; mora da bude čovek.

We really felt like we were in a -- kind of a 12-step program.

Stvarno smo se osećali kao da smo u nekom programu od 12 koraka.

And of course, the first step is: admit you've got a problem. (Laughter)

Naravno, prvi korak je: priznaj da imaš problem. (smeh)

So we had a big problem:

Imali smo veliki problem:

we didn't know how we were going to do this.

nismo znali kako ćemo ovo da uradimo.

But we did know one thing.

Ali znali smo jednu stvar:

Being from the visual effects industry,

pošto potičemo iz industrije vizuelnih efekata,

we, with David, believed that we now had enough time,

i mi i Dejvid smo mislili da imamo dovoljno vremena,

enough resources, and, God, we hoped we had enough money.

resursa i Bože, nadali smo se da imamo dovoljno novca.

And we had enough passion to will the processes and technology into existence.

A imali smo i dovoljno strasti da oživimo procese i tehnologiju.

So, when you're faced with something like that,

Kada ste suočeni sa nečim takvim,

of course you've got to break it down.

naravno da morate da ga razložite na delove.

You take the big problem and you break it down into smaller pieces

Uzmete veliki problem i raščlanite ga na manje delove

and you start to attack that.

i počnete njih da napadate.

So we had three main areas that we had to focus on.

Imali smo tri glavne celine na koje je trebalo da se fokusiramo.

We needed to make Brad look a lot older --

Da učinimo da Bred izgleda mnogo starije -

needed to age him 45 years or so.

da ostari oko 45 godina.

And we also needed to make sure that we could take Brad's idiosyncrasies,

I trebalo je da budemo sigurni da ćemo uhvatiti njegove specifičnosti,

his little tics, the little subtleties that make him who he is

njegove male tikove, nijanse koje ga čine onim ko je,

and have that translate through our process

i preneti ih kroz naš proces

so that it appears in Benjamin on the screen.

da bi se na ekranu pojavile u Bendžaminu.

And we also needed to create a character

I trebalo je da napravimo lik

that could hold up under, really, all conditions.

koji bi izdržao stvarno sve uslove.

He needed to be able to walk in broad daylight,

Da može da hoda usred bela dana,

at nighttime, under candlelight,

noću, pod svetlošću sveće,

he had to hold an extreme close-up,

morao je da bude u izuzetno krupnom planu,

he had to deliver dialogue,

da učestvuje u razgovoru,

he had to be able to run, he had to be able to sweat,

da može da trči, da se znoji,

he had to be able to take a bath, to cry,

da se kupa, da plače,

he even had to throw up.

čak je trebalo da povraća.

Not all at the same time --

Ne sve u isto vreme -

but he had to, you know, do all of those things.

ali je trebalo da radi sve te stvari.

And the work had to hold up for almost the first hour of the movie.

Taj rad je morao da izdrži skoro tokom prvog sata filma.

We did about 325 shots.

Uradili smo oko 325 snimaka.

So we needed a system that would allow Benjamin

Bio nam je potreban sistem koji bi omogućio Bendžaminu

to do everything a human being can do.

da radi sve što ljudsko biće može da radi.

And we realized that there was a giant chasm

Shvatili smo da postoji ogroman jaz

between the state of the art of technology in 2004

između toga gde se tehnologija nalazila 2004. godine

and where we needed it to be.

i onoga gde je trebalo da bude za naše potrebe.

So we focused on motion capture.

Fokusirali smo se na snimanje pokreta.

I'm sure many of you have seen motion capture.

Siguran sam da su mnogi od vas to videli.

The state of the art at the time

U to vreme je vrhunska umetnost bila

was something called marker-based motion capture.

nešto što se zove snimanje pokreta na osnovu markera.

I'll give you an example here.

Daću vam jedan primer.

It's basically the idea of, you wear a leotard,

Ideja je da nosite triko, a na vaše

and they put some reflective markers on your body,

telo se postave reflektujući označivači - markeri

and instead of using cameras,

i umesto da se koriste kamere,

there're infrared sensors around a volume,

tu su infracrveni senzori koji

and those infrared sensors track the three-dimensional position

u realnom vremenu prate trodimenzionalnu

of those markers in real time.

poziciju tih markera.

And then animators can take the data of the motion of those markers

Potom animatori mogu uzeti podatke o kretanju iz tih

and apply them to a computer-generated character.

markera i primeniti ih na kompjuterski generisan lik.

You can see the computer characters on the right

Vidite da kompjuterski generisani likovi s desne strane

are having the same complex motion as the dancers.

izvode iste složene pokrete kao i plesači.

But we also looked at numbers of other films at the time

Takođe smo gledali i veliki broj drugih filmova

that were using facial marker tracking,

koji su tada koristili praćenje pokreta lica,

and that's the idea of putting markers on the human face

a to je ideja da se označivači stave na lice

and doing the same process.

i obavi se isti proces.

And as you can see, it gives you a pretty crappy performance.

Kao što vidite, dobijate prilično jadan rezultat.

That's not terribly compelling.

To nije baš ubedljivo.

And what we realized

Shvatili smo

was that what we needed

da su nam potrebne

was the information that was going on between the markers.

informacije o dešavanjima između markera.

We needed the subtleties of the skin.

Potrebni su nam detalji kože.

We needed to see skin moving over muscle moving over bone.

Trebalo je da vidimo pokrete kože preko mišića i kostiju.

We needed creases and dimples and wrinkles and all of those things.

Trebale su nam linije, rupice, bore, sve te stvari.

Our first revelation was to completely abort and walk away from

Naše prvo otkrovenje bilo je da u potpunosti odustanemo

the technology of the day, the status quo, the state of the art.

od tadašnje tehnologije, statusa kvo, vrhunske umetnosti.

So we aborted using motion capture.

Odustali smo od korišćenja snimanja pokreta.

And we were now well out of our comfort zone,

Sada smo već bili prilično izvan zone udobnosti,

and in uncharted territory.

na neobeleženoj teritoriji.

So we were left with this idea

Ostali smo sa idejom koju smo

that we ended up calling "technology stew."

na kraju zvali "tehnološki paprikaš".

We started to look out in other fields.

Počeli smo da istražujemo u drugim poljima.

The idea was that we were going to find

Ideja je bila da pronađemo

nuggets or gems of technology

komadiće, dragulje tehnologije

that come from other industries like medical imaging,

koji dolaze iz drugih industrija kao što su

the video game space,

medicina ili video igre

and re-appropriate them.

i da ih prilagodimo.

And we had to create kind of a sauce.

Trebalo je da napravimo neku vrstu sosa.

And the sauce was code in software

A sos je bio kod u softveru, koji smo napisali

that we'd written to allow these disparate pieces of technology

kako bismo omogućili da se ovi različiti delovi tehnologije

to come together and work as one.

spoje i funkcionišu kao jedan.

Initially, we came across some remarkable research

Prvo smo naišli na izuzetno istraživanje

done by a gentleman named Dr. Paul Ekman in the early '70s.

koje je sproveo gospodin po imenu dr Pol Ekman, ranih '70-ih.

He believed that he could, in fact,

On je verovao da može

catalog the human face.

da katalogizuje ljudsko lice.

And he came up with this idea of Facial Action Coding System, or FACS.

Osmislio je Sistem kodiranja facijalne akcije, SKFA.

He believed that there were 70 basic poses

Smatrao je da postoji sedamdeset osnovnih poza

or shapes of the human face,

ili oblika ljudskog lica,

and that those basic poses or shapes of the face

i da te osnovne poze ili oblici

can be combined to create infinite possibilities

mogu da se kombinuju i stvore nebrojene mogućnosti

of everything the human face is capable of doing.

svega što je ljudsko lice sposobno da uradi.

And of course, these transcend age, race, culture, gender.

Naravno, oni su nezavisni od godina, rase, kulture, pola.

So this became the foundation of our research as we went forward.

Kako smo napredovali, to je postala osnova našeg istraživanja.

And then we came across some remarkable technology

Onda smo naišli na jednu izuzetnu tehnologiju

called Contour.

po imenu "Kontura".

And here you can see a subject having phosphorus makeup

Ovde vidite da subjekt ima fosfornu šminku

stippled on her face.

nanesenu na lice.

And now what we're looking at is really creating a surface capture

Sada zapravo možemo da snimimo povšinu,

as opposed to a marker capture.

umesto snimanja samo označivača.

The subject stands in front of a computer array of cameras,

Ovaj subjekt stoji ispred kompjuterskih kamera

and those cameras can, frame-by-frame,

i one mogu, kadar po kadar, da rekonstruišu

reconstruct the geometry of exactly what the subject's doing at the moment.

geometriju upravo onoga što subjekt radi u trenutku.

So, effectively, you get 3D data in real time of the subject.

Bukvalno dobijate 3D podatke o subjektu u realnom vremenu.

And if you look in a comparison,

Ako pogledamo uporedo,

on the left, we see what volumetric data gives us

levo vidimo šta nam podaci o zapremini daju,

and on the right you see what markers give us.

a desno vidimo šta nam označivači daju.

So, clearly, we were in a substantially better place for this.

Jasno je da smo bili u mnogo boljem položaju za ovo.

But these were the early days of this technology,

Ali to su bili rani dani te tehnologije

and it wasn't really proven yet.

i još nije bila dokazana.

We measure complexity and fidelity of data

Merimo složenost i preciznost podataka

in terms of polygonal count.

u smislu broja poligona.

And so, on the left, we were seeing 100,000 polygons.

Tako, s leve strane imamo 100 000 poligona.

We could go up into the millions of polygons.

Mogli bismo da dostignemo milione poligona.

It seemed to be infinite.

Izgledalo je neograničeno.

This was when we had our "Aha!"

Tada smo doživeli "Aha!" trenutak.

This was the breakthrough.

To je bio proboj.

This is when we're like, "OK, we're going to be OK,

Tada smo pomislili, "OK, bićemo dobro.

This is actually going to work."

Ovo će zaista uspeti."

And the "Aha!" was, what if we could take Brad Pitt,

A "Aha!" je bilo: šta ako bismo uzeli Breda

and we could put Brad in this device,

i stavili ga u ovu spravu

and use this Contour process,

i iskoristili "Kontura" proces

and we could stipple on this phosphorescent makeup

i naneli mu fluorescentnu šminku

and put him under the black lights,

i stavili ga pod "blacklight"

and we could, in fact, scan him in real time

- mogli bismo da ga skeniramo u realnom vremenu

performing Ekman's FACS poses.

koristeći Ekmanove SKFA poze.

Right? So, effectively,

Je l' tako? Dakle, bukvalno

we ended up with a 3D database

smo dobili 3D bazu podataka

of everything Brad Pitt's face is capable of doing.

svih pokreta koje je lice Breda Pita u stanju da uradi.

(Laughter)

(smeh)

From there, we actually carved up those faces

Odatle smo isekli ta lica

into smaller pieces and components of his face.

na manje delove i komponente njegovog lica.

So we ended up with literally thousands and thousands and thousands of shapes,

Dobili smo bukvalno hiljade i hiljade i hiljade oblika,

a complete database of all possibilities

kompletnu bazu podataka svih mogućnosti

that his face is capable of doing.

koje ovo lice može da izvede.

Now, that's great, except we had him at age 44.

To je super, ali mi smo ga snimili sa 44 godine.

We need to put another 40 years on him at this point.

Tada je trebalo da mu dodamo još 40 godina.

We brought in Rick Baker,

Doveli smo Rika Bejkera, koji je

and Rick is one of the great makeup and special effects gurus

jedan od odličnih gurua za šminku i specijalne efekte

of our industry.

u našoj industriji.

And we also brought in a gentleman named Kazu Tsuji,

Doveli smo i gospodina po imenu Kazu Tsudži,

and Kazu Tsuji is one of the great photorealist sculptors of our time.

a on je jedan od najboljih fotorealističnih skulptora našeg vremena.

And we commissioned them to make a maquette,

Tražili smo od njih da naprave maketu,

or a bust, of Benjamin.

bistu Bendžamina.

So, in the spirit of "The Great Unveiling" -- I had to do this --

U duhu "Velikog otkrivanja" - morao sam ovo da uradim -

I had to unveil something.

morao sam nešto da otkrijem.

So this is Ben 80.

Ovo je Ben 80.

We created three of these:

Napravili smo tri ovakva:

there's Ben 80, there's Ben 70, there's Ben 60.

imamo Bena 80, Bena 70, Bena 60.

And this really became the template for moving forward.

Ovo je postao šablon za napredovanje.

Now, this was made from a life cast of Brad.

Ovo je napravljeno od pravog odlivka Breda.

So, in fact, anatomically, it is correct.

Dakle, anatomski je tačno.

The eyes, the jaw, the teeth:

Oči, vilica, zubi:

everything is in perfect alignment with what the real guy has.

sve se savršeno poklapa sa pravim čovekom.

We have these maquettes scanned into the computer

Skenirali smo ove makete

at very high resolution --

sa veoma visokom rezolucijom -

enormous polygonal count.

imaju ogroman broj poligona.

And so now we had three age increments of Benjamin

Sada smo u kompjuteru imali Bendžamina

in the computer.

u tri starosne verzije.

But we needed to get a database of him doing more than that.

Ali bila nam je potrebna baza sa više pokreta.

We went through this process, then, called retargeting.

Prošli smo kroz proces koji se zove ponovno mapiranje.

This is Brad doing one of the Ekman FACS poses.

Ovde Bred izvodi jednu od Ekmanovih SKFA poza.

And here's the resulting data that comes from that,

A evo podataka koji su rezultat toga,

the model that comes from that.

model koji iz toga nastaje.

Retargeting is the process of transposing that data

Ponovno mapiranje je proces prenošenja

onto another model.

tih podataka na drugi model.

And because the life cast, or the bust -- the maquette -- of Benjamin

Budući da je model Bendžamina - bista ili maketa -

was made from Brad,

napravljena od Breda,

we could transpose the data of Brad at 44

mogli smo da prenesemo podatke Breda sa

onto Brad at 87.

44 godine, na onog sa 87.

So now, we had a 3D database of everything Brad Pitt's face can do

Sada smo imali bazu svega što Bredovo lice može da uradi

at age 87, in his 70s and in his 60s.

u 87. godini, u sedamdesetim i šezdesetim.

Next we had to go into the shooting process.

Potom je trebalo da pređemo na snimanje.

So while all that's going on,

Dok se sve to dešava,

we're down in New Orleans and locations around the world.

mi se nalazimo u Nju Orleansu i lokacijama širom sveta.

And we shot our body actors,

Snimali smo tela drugih glumaca

and we shot them wearing blue hoods.

dok su nosili plave kapuljače.

So these are the gentleman who played Benjamin.

Ovo su sve gospoda koja su igrala Bendžamina.

And the blue hoods helped us with two things:

Plave kapuljače su nam pomogle na dva načina:

one, we could easily erase their heads;

Prvo, tako smo lako mogli da izbrišemo njihove glave;

and we also put tracking markers on their heads

a takođe smo im stavili markere pokreta na glave,

so we could recreate the camera motion

kako bismo ponovili pokrete kamere

and the lens optics from the set.

i optiku sa snimanja.

But now we needed to get Brad's performance to drive our virtual Benjamin.

Zatim je Bredovo izvođenje trebalo da pokreće virtualnog Bendžamina.

And so we edited the footage that was shot on location

Montirali smo snimke sa lokacija

with the rest of the cast and the body actors

sa ostatkom ekipe i glumcima-telima

and about six months later

i oko šest meseci kasnije

we brought Brad onto a sound stage in Los Angeles

doveli smo Breda u zvučni studio u Los Anđelesu

and he watched on the screen.

i on je gledao na ekranu.

His job, then, was to become Benjamin.

Njegov posao je onda bio da postane Bendžamin.

And so we looped the scenes.

Ponavljali smo scene.

He watched again and again.

Gledao je iznova i iznova.

We encouraged him to improvise.

Podsticali smo ga da improvizuje.

And he took Benjamin into interesting and unusual places

Odveo je Bendžamina na zanimljiva i neobična mesta

that we didn't think he was going to go.

na koja nismo mislili da će ga povesti.

We shot him with four HD cameras

Snimali smo ga sa 4 kamere visoke rezolucije

so we'd get multiple views of him

kako bismo imali više uglova

and then David would choose the take of Brad being Benjamin

a onda bi Dejvid odabrao snimak Breda kao Bendžamina

that he thought best matched the footage

za koji je mislio da se najbolje

with the rest of the cast.

uklapa sa ostalim glumcima.

From there we went into a process called image analysis.

Odatle smo prešli u proces analize snimka.

And so here, you can see again, the chosen take.

Ovde opet vidite izabrani snimak.

And you are seeing, now, that data being transposed on to Ben 87.

Ovde vidite kako se on prenosi na Bena sa 87 godina.

And so, what's interesting about this is

Zanimljivo je ovde da smo

we used something called image analysis,

koristili analizu snimka, koja

which is taking timings from different components of Benjamin's face.

uzima vremenske tačke različitih komponenti Bendžaminovog lica.

And so we could choose, say, his left eyebrow.

Mogli smo, recimo, da odaberemo njegovu levu obrvu.

And the software would tell us that, well,

A softver bi nam rekao kako

in frame 14 the left eyebrow begins to move from here to here,

u 14. slici leva obrva počinje da se kreće

and it concludes moving in frame 32.

i kako završava pokret u 32. slici.

And so we could choose numbers of positions on the face

Mogli smo da izaberemo broj pozicija na licu

to pull that data from.

iz kojih smo uzimali podatke.

And then, the sauce I talked about with our technology stew --

A onda, sos o kom sam govorio u našem tehnološkom paprikašu -

that secret sauce was, effectively, software that allowed us to

tajni sos je bio, bukvalno, softver koji je omogućio

match the performance footage of Brad

da povežemo snimak Bredovog izvođenja

in live action with our database of aged Benjamin,

uživo, sa bazom podataka starog Bendžamina,

the FACS shapes that we had.

SKFA pozama koje smo imali.

On a frame-by-frame basis,

Na nivou jedne-po-jedne slike,

we could actually reconstruct a 3D head

mogli smo da rekonstruišemo 3D glavu

that exactly matched the performance of Brad.

koja se potpuno poklapala sa Bredovim izvođenjem.

So this was how the finished shot appeared in the film.

Ovako je završeni snimak izgledao na filmu.

And here you can see the body actor.

Možete videti glumca za telo.

And then this is what we called the "dead head," no reference to Jerry Garcia.

Ovo smo zvali "mrtva glava", što nema veze sa Džerijem Garsijom.

And then here's the reconstructed performance

A evo i rekonstruisanog izvođenja

now with the timings of the performance.

zajedno sa vremenskim zapisom izvođenja.

And then, again, the final shot.

I ponovo, konačni snimak.

It was a long process.

Bio je to dug proces.

(Applause)

(aplauz)

The next section here, I'm going to just blast through this,

Brzo ću proći kroz sledeći deo jer

because we could do a whole TEDTalk on the next several slides.

bih mogao da održim ceo TEDTalk samo o sledećih nekoliko slajdova.

We had to create a lighting system.

Morali smo da napravimo sistem rasvete.

So really, a big part of our processes was creating a lighting environment

Veliki deo našeg rada je bilo pravljenje svetlosnog okruženja

for every single location that Benjamin had to appear

za svaku lokaciju na kojoj je Bendžamin trebalo da se pojavi

so that we could put Ben's head into any scene

kako bismo stavili njegovu glavu u svaku scenu

and it would exactly match the lighting that's on the other actors

i ona bi se tačno poklopila sa osvetljenjem na drugim

in the real world.

glumcima u realnom svetu.

We also had to create an eye system.

Morali smo da napravimo i sistem za oči.

We found the old adage, you know,

Otkrili smo da je stara poslovica,

"The eyes are the window to the soul,"

"Oči su ogledalo duše"

absolutely true.

potpuno istinita.

So the key here was to keep everybody looking in Ben's eyes.

Ključ je bio da svi gledaju u Benove oči.

And if you could feel the warmth, and feel the humanity,

Ako možete da osetite toplinu i čovečnost,

and feel his intent coming through the eyes,

i njegovu nameru kroz njegove oči,

then we would succeed.

onda smo uspeli.

So we had one person focused on the eye system

Jedna osoba je bila fokusirana na oči,

for almost two full years.

skoro pune dve godine.

We also had to create a mouth system.

Morali smo da napravimo i sistem za usta.

We worked from dental molds of Brad.

Radili smo sa Bredovim dentalnim kalupima.

We had to age the teeth over time.

Trebalo je da zubi ostare tokom vremena.

We also had to create an articulating tongue that allowed him to enunciate his words.

Morali smo da napravimo jezik koji dozvoljava izgovaranje reči.

There was a whole system written in software to articulate the tongue.

Ceo jedan sistem u softveru je bio zadužen za jezik.

We had one person devoted to the tongue for about nine months.

Jedna osoba je bila zadužena za jezik tokom devet meseci.

He was very popular.

Bio je veoma popularan.

Skin displacement: another big deal.

Pomeranje kože: još jedna bitna stvar.

The skin had to be absolutely accurate.

Koža je morala da bude potpuno odgovarajuća.

He's also in an old age home, he's in a nursing home

On se nalazi i u staračkom domu,

around other old people,

okružen drugim starcima,

so he had to look exactly the same as the others.

pa je morao da izgleda potpuno isto kao oni.

So, lots of work on skin deformation,

Mnogo rada na deformaciji kože,

you can see in some of these cases it works,

vidite da u nekim slučajevima uspeva,

in some cases it looks bad.

a negde izgleda loše.

This is a very, very, very early test in our process.

Ovo je test iz vrlo, vrlo rane faze u našem procesu.

So, effectively we created a digital puppet

Bukvalno smo kreirali digitalnu lutku

that Brad Pitt could operate with his own face.

kojom je Bred Pit mogao da upravlja svojim licem.

There were no animators necessary to come in and interpret behavior

Nisu bili potrebni animatori koji bi interpretirali ponašanje

or enhance his performance.

ili pojačali njegovo izvođenje.

There was something that we encountered, though,

Ipak smo naišli na nešto, što smo

that we ended up calling "the digital Botox effect."

na kraju zvali "digitalni efekat botoksa".

So, as things went through this process,

Kako su stvari prolazile kroz ovaj proces,

Fincher would always say, "It sandblasts the edges off of the performance."

Finčer bi uvek rekao "To šmirgla ivice izvođenja".

And thing our process and the technology couldn't do,

Naš proces i tehnologija nisu mogli

is they couldn't understand intent,

da razumeju nameru

the intent of the actor.

glumca.

So it sees a smile as a smile.

Oni osmeh vide kao osmeh.

It doesn't recognize an ironic smile, or a happy smile,

Ne prepoznaju ironični osmeh, srećni osmeh,

or a frustrated smile.

frustrirani osmeh.

So it did take humans to kind of push it one way or another.

Ipak su bili potrebni ljudi da bi uredili detalje.

But we ended up calling the entire process

Na kraju smo ceo proces i svu tehnologiju

and all the technology "emotion capture,"

zvali "beleženje emocija",

as opposed to just motion capture.

nasuprot beleženju pokreta.

Take another look.

Pogledajte još jednom.

Brad Pitt: Well, I heard momma and Tizzy whisper,

Bred Pit: Pa, čuo sam da mama i Tizi šapuću

and they said I was gonna die soon,

kako ću uskoro da umrem,

but ... maybe not.

ali... možda i neću.

EU: That's how to create a digital human in 18 minutes.

EU: Tako se kreira digitalni čovek, u 18 minuta.

(Applause)

(aplauz)

A couple of quick factoids;

Par kratkih činjenica:

it really took 155 people over two years,

zaista je bilo potrebno 155 ljudi tokom dve godine,

and we didn't even talk about 60 hairstyles and an all-digital haircut.

a nisam čak ni pomenuo 60 frizura i potpuno digitalno šišanje.

But, that is Benjamin. Thank you.

Ali, to je Bendžamin. Hvala vam.