Liz 4Jesus Christ Goes 3D
April 16th 2010 15:35
One famous guy, Jesus Christ, has gone (like almost everything else in media) to 3D. The History Channel recently aired “The Real Face of Jesus?” a walk through the process of digitalizing Christ’s face from the Shroud of Turin.
If you don’t already know, the Shroud of Turin is the 14-foot cloth many believe wrapped around Christ after his death. If the shroud is the real cloth that covered Christ is still up for debate, but whatever the case, the man who it covered was miserably beaten to a bloody pulp. The blood on the cloth reveals wounds that coincide to the New Testament’s account of the crucifixion. These similarities include a crown of thorns, a puncture to the side, nails through the hands/feet and a gory back whipping. The History Channel, in the only way the History Channel can, portrayed how the legitimacy of the shroud popped up in artwork and written accounts throughout the ages.
Speculation aside, what would the face of Christ look like? Ray Downing of Studio Macbeth took the painstaking, time-consuming effort to recreate Jesus’ face from the blood and other debris left on the shroud. The result was a little bit eerie. Like most of the History Channel’s programming, it made me want to sleep with the lights on. The scientists and artists working on the projects claim to have made a different kind of resurrection, one that is a technological and visual. The technology used to accomplish this feat was cutting edge/state-of-the-art. There were many hurdles Team Macbeth had to overcome, but in the end they succeeded in making a moving 3D creation from a faint, unfocused two-dimensional image.
For more images and information go to:
studiomacbeth.com
history.com
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