If you haven't seen Benjamin Button and hate spoilers, stop reading now. Just go read Bob Cesca's column - it's always good.

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The Holy Grail of computer animation has long been to create a computer generated human character that fools the viewer into thinking they are watching a real person. I've been an animation and visual effects professional for about twenty years, I've seen David Fincher's film The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and I'll tell you this; the effects team at Digital Domain did it.

They get the Grail and very possibly this year's Academy Award for visual effects.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not dumb. I KNEW I was looking at visual effects. A bunch of them. I figured there was some 3D animation, some bits with Brad Pitt in makeup and some composite shots that combined different elements. I was wrong.

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