Siggraph enjoys the flaws in Nvidia's nymphet

"Technically, one clear area of progress for the [Siggraph] festival was skin, long the bugaboo of animators trying to create photo-realistic humans. Dawn, a nymphet created by Nvidia, had skin matted with imperfections and dimples that notched her up several spots on the believability scale. But no one would ever take her -- or any of the other humans portrayed in the festival -- for real. The digital humans in The Matrix, [Darin Grant, chair of this year's animation festival,] noted, all wore sunglasses, saving the animators from attempting the impossible task of creating realistic eyes." Wired has the story....