Weschler Response

I found the "Why is this Man Smiling?" article very interesting. I enjoyed the comparisons the writer made to puppetry, the origins of today's facial animation, and just how complicated the entire process is. It is pretty incredible to think how much works goes into each and every frame, which makes up scenes, which eventually culminates into a full length film.

Though aspects of the article were very interesting, I thought that the article was entirely too long and provided a lot of information that did not apply to the average reader. The article also posed the question, "Will anyone ever be able to digitally replicate a human soul?"Wait, what? My response to that, past sheer amazement that there are actually people out there thinking about that, would have to be a resounding WHY? Why would anyone have the desire to replicate a human soul? Not to mention, how do you even define a "human soul?" Questions like this do not add anything but stupidity to an otherwise very informative article.