# Animate characters by evolving them

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED2003
- Speaker: Torsten Reil
- Year: 2003
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/torsten_reil_animate_characters_by_evolving_them)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Torsten Reil talks about how the study of biology can help make natural-looking animated people -- by building a human from the inside out, with bones, muscles and a nervous system. He spoke at TED in 2003; see his work now in GTA4.

## Lectures

1. [Animate characters by evolving them](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/torsten_reil_animate_characters_by_evolving_them/0b56c01648a0), 19 min (TED's player)