#Facial Animation
It (Elastic Reality) is a structured (shape-based) warping and morphing system
which acts in 2-D. It isn't a 3-D package, a modeller, or a plug-in. You would
use it to manipulate rendered 3-D elements to adjust fine details.
Examples of using Elastic Reality in this way include the MGM Grand Hotel
commercial (the fine details in the Lion's appearence) and in the talking
animals in the television series Northern Exposure.
Actually, in the Northern Exposure case, there was a live dog (but for the
purposes of this discussion it doesn't matter where the 3-D thing came
from…the concept is the same).
So in summary: it would be used as a 2-D post-process operating upon the
rendered (TGAs for example) frames.
Perry