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Before Tilly Norwood, Aki Ross Was Hollywood’s First Digital Actress — Static01.nyt.com

Before Tilly Norwood, Aki Ross Was Hollywood’s First Digital Actress

Aki Ross was the computer-generated heroine of the 2001 film Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and was widely considered at the time to be the first photoreal digital actress, a precursor to the current debate around A.I. avatars such as Tilly Norwood. Roy Sato, the film’s lead animator,

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within reappraised as a pioneering photoreal CGI film — Static0.colliderimages.com

Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within reappraised as a pioneering photoreal CGI film

Collider says 2001’s Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within deserves renewed recognition as a groundbreaking, if commercially unsuccessful, attempt to produce a feature-length film of photorealistic CGI directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi. The film aimed to emulate live-action rather than stylized animation, making it an early stepping stone toward later CGI-heavy