Director Chris Milk created a CG-driven jaw-dropper for the Gnarls Barkley industrial complex. The heart was brought to bloody, beating life by Gradient Effects in LA using HDRI maps to match the lighting and motion capture of an actor for the body language. The 15 shots of Cee-Lo’s lip-synch performance was provided by Image Metrics in Santa Monica using their proprietary image analysis technology. According to Milk, “The lips had to move like real human lips. We could not find any other technology that was able to achieve the level of exacting perfection I was asking for.”

Some of the tool used: Maya, RealFlow, mental ray, Flame, Image Metrics’ proprietary facial animation solution