reddog opened this issue on Mar 13, 2002 ยท 11 posts
kupa posted Thu, 14 March 2002 at 4:57 PM
Talk about digital crime scene recreation... Back in the late Poser 3 days, the Ohio attourney general's office contacted me to explore using Poser and Canoma to create an animated crime scene for use in a murder trial. The digital forensic team modeled the 3D room using scanned crime scene photos imported into Canoma. Two Poser figures were altered with morph targets and custom texture facial maps to put together a fairly realistic depiction of the suspect and the victim. The figures were animated, not artistically so, but certainly convincing enough for the job at hand. The rendered animation was much more compelling than that other famous crime scene animation. So much so, the defense had the evidence stricken from the trial. After seeing the rendered results, I believe it was the right decision for the court to have made. Steve Cooper