Awesome Avatars

After a failed attempt to do a backflip in real life, animator Nikita Diakur thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in perform the maneuver. With the help of engineer Maximilian Schneider and machine learning tech based on the paper Deep Mimic, he attempted to nudge his avatar in the right direction to achieve his gymnastic goal.

This CGI composite documentary by Gavin Kelly follows the stories of four MMORPG players who describe their exotic role-play characters as we see them in the context of their mundane real lives.