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* There was an advertising campaign for Galaxy chocolate which used a very convincing SerkisFolk recreation of Creator/AudreyHepburn, casting a lookalike and using CGI to complete the illusion. This was considered something of an aesthetic triumph, but many criticized the idea of

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* There was an advertising campaign for Galaxy chocolate which used a very convincing SerkisFolk recreation of Creator/AudreyHepburn, casting a lookalike and using CGI to complete the illusion. This was considered something of an aesthetic triumph, but many criticized the idea of idea.
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So you pull off something dicey: use a stand-in, and [[FilmingForEasyDub don't show their face]]. You can combine this with a little StockFootage to improve the effect. Not bad, as long as the audience doesn't get wise. Starting in the late 2010s, some film studios have experimented with [[SerkisFolk motion-captured effigies]] of actors who are either too old or too dead to reprise their roles, but it's [[UnintentionalUncannyValley rarely passable]] (and ethically dubious).

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So you pull off something dicey: use a stand-in, and [[FilmingForEasyDub don't show their face]]. You can combine this with a little StockFootage to improve the effect. Not bad, as long as the audience doesn't get wise. Starting in the late 2010s, some film studios have experimented with [[SerkisFolk motion-captured effigies]] of actors who are either too old or too dead to reprise their roles, but it's [[UnintentionalUncannyValley rarely passable]] (and ethically dubious).
dubious). [[UsefulNotes/TVStrikes The 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike]] was sparked in part by concerns about studios proposing using artificial intelligence to scan and own actors' likenesses forever.
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* There was an advertising campaign for Galaxy chocolate which used a very convincing SerkisFolk recreation of Creator/AudreyHepburn, casting a lookalike and using CGI to complete the illusion. This was considered something of an aesthetic triumph, but many people found the concept of puppeting a duplicate of a virtual [[TheDeadRiseToAdvertise dead woman to sell cheap chocolate]] irritating and creepy.
* Orville Redenbacher made a posthumous commercial appearance in 2007 requiring two actors to play the role of the late popcorn magnate: one as the body double, and another providing the voice, with CGI used for the head. The results were... unsettling.
* The "Give A Few Bob" campaign in the UK to raise awareness for prostate cancer featured Bob Monkhouse, who had died from the illness a few years earlier. Archive footage, a body double and CGI was used to piece together a monologue from Bob, with audio taken from his stand up shows and a voice actor filling in for the rest (one who Monkhouse ''himself'' had recognized as being a perfect impression). For the most part, it's ''very'' convincing.
* Hardees (or Carl's Jr., depending on where you live) ran a special ad for an ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' tie-in burger that featured a silent and uncredited actress in Comicbook/{{Mystique}}'s trademark blue makeup and prosthetics, since they couldn't actually get Creator/JenniferLawrence to appear.

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* There was an advertising campaign for Galaxy chocolate which used a very convincing SerkisFolk recreation of Creator/AudreyHepburn, casting a lookalike and using CGI to complete the illusion. This was considered something of an aesthetic triumph, but many people found criticized the concept of puppeting a duplicate of a virtual [[TheDeadRiseToAdvertise dead woman to sell cheap chocolate]] irritating and creepy.
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* Orville Redenbacher made a posthumous commercial appearance in 2007 requiring two actors 2007. A body double and CGI were employed to play the role create a SerkisFolk recreation of the late popcorn magnate: one as Redenbacher, with a voice actor overdubbing the body double, and another providing actor in order to complete the voice, with CGI used for illusion. While the head. The results were... unsettling.
production crew considered it a technical triumph, many viewers criticized it at the time, finding the whole concept to be unnerving.
* The "Give A Few Bob" campaign in the UK to raise awareness for prostate cancer featured Bob Monkhouse, who had died from the illness a few years earlier. Archive footage, a body double and CGI was used to piece together a monologue from Bob, with audio taken from his stand up shows and a voice actor filling in for the rest (one who Monkhouse ''himself'' had recognized as being a perfect impression). For the most part, it's ''very'' convincing.
impression).
* Hardees (or Carl's Jr., depending on where you live) the area) ran a special ad for an ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'' tie-in burger that featured a silent and uncredited actress in Comicbook/{{Mystique}}'s trademark blue makeup and prosthetics, since they couldn't actually get Creator/JenniferLawrence to appear.
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* Anatoly Papanov who voiced the Wolf in ''Animation/NuPogodi'' died in 1987, and they recycled his existing lines for episodes 17 and 18.

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* Anatoly Papanov Papanov, who voiced the Wolf in ''Animation/NuPogodi'' ''Animation/NuPogodi'', died in 1987, and they recycled his existing lines for episodes 17 and 18.

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