Posthumous performances: Should we digitally recreate dead actors?
NAB 2019: The ethics of digitally recreated performances by actors who have passed away was questioned during an SMPTE panel at NAB.
In 2016, a dead man acted in a Star Wars film. Peter Cushing passed away in 1994 but a CG likeness of him was painstakingly recreated from individual frames to perform his scenes in Rogue One.
It is increasingly common today to scan important actors at various stages of the filmmaking process as an aid to VFX. It happens in TV with the lead cast of BBC and Amazon show Good Omens getting full photo scans.
But what happens to…
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