Nowadays, hybrid movies that merge live action with computer animation to produce three-dimensional digital maps of their real-life actors' body movements include lots of fine-grained information about expression.
Gamers will also feel very much at home with the film's stereoscopic visual texture, a kind of synthetic naturalism, seamlessly folding live action into computer animation and vice versa.
The film, which will be a mixture of live action performances and computer animation, is currently in the casting process, with turtles Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael expected to be played by relative unknowns.
From your computer you could watch the live action at the Honest Tea kiosks in any city.
"That's normally a very fluid action, but to a computer, it's confusing, " says Lazaridis.
He told BBC News Online he felt NHS Direct nurses relied too heavily on a computer system to guide them as to what course of action is best for a patient.
"We face a very real risk of seeing the democratically accountable policing of computer-assisted crime replaced by a combination of vigilante action and the covert privatisation of legitimate investigation, " said Philip Virgo, Secretary General of EURIM, the all-party e-commerce lobby group which commissioned the study.
Any action can be recorded and fed to a companion computer program, where tweaks can can be made to the automation.
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Centro has become a niche player in computer animation, developing such things as the special effects for the action film The StormRiders, which topped the territory's box office last year.
Rather than trying to take virtual characters (and as great as even the new PS4 graphics look, game characters are still virtual) and turn them into live action actors, Wreck-It Ralph keeps these game characters within their computer-generated world.
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He also never lost his fondness for storytelling, and even in today's computer-dominated marketplace, maintained high hopes that the art of combining stop-motion with live action would continue.
With the first full weekend of NFL football kicking off, Sony Computer Entertainment America and DirecTV have once again partnered to bring PlayStation 3 gamers exclusive access to all of the action around the league.
In fact according to PC Mark Vantage tests every action related to getting information from storage is faster- booting, loading files and applications, and running computer-based tasks.
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