Disney asking its female employees to to help design an animated male lead [1] reminded me of the average human [2], a post I made a few years ago.
Amazingly enough, the Face Research Make an Average [3] page still exists, only with a new crop of pictures.
I thought it might be interesting to compare how averages made with a fresh set of pictures would hold up to the previous set of pictures and remarkedly, they are very similar in nature.
[The Average Woman in 2007] [4] [The Average Woman in 2013] [5]
[The Average Man in 2007] [6] [The Average Man in 2013] [7]
The 2007 pictures appear first, then then current, 2013 pictures. And then, the average of both men and women to create—
[The Average Human in 2007] [8] [The Average Human in 2013] [9]
I wonder how closer we are to my predictions of digital actors?
[1] http://violetimpudence.tumblr.com/post/39423861352/cups-of-tea-and-history-sashayed
[4] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.woman.jpg
[5] /boston/2013/01/03/average.woman.jpg
[6] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.man.jpg
[7] /boston/2013/01/03/average.man.jpg
[8] https://boston.conman.org/2007/08/28/average.person.jpg