American Cinematographer (ISSN: 0002-7928 / 2573-5004)

Saved reshoot complexity; enabled creative choices; actor-performance preserved.

Ethical debate on resurrecting actors; difficulty replicating micro-expressions; heavy engineering effort.

International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) (ISSN: 1746-8256)

Pipeline/tooling gains; asset reuse & preservation for efficiency.

Terabytes/shot data; interoperability issues; archiving risks.

Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (JCMS) (ISSN: 2578-4900 / 0009-7101)

De-aging enables historical storytelling; replaces makeup.

Raises ethical/political concerns; aesthetic risks; uneven audience reception.

ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG) (ISSN: 0730-0301 / 1557-7368)

Significant realism advances; faster iteration; higher fidelity.

Experimental methods; high computational cost; specialist staff needed.

IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications (ISSN: 0272-1716 / 1558-1756)

Bridges academia & industry; implementable workflows for studios.

Software license costs; steep learning/training curve.

Film Comment (ISSN: 0015-119X)

Shows how directors integrate digital humans to preserve storytelling.

Emotional subtlety limits noted; audience skepticism possible.

Sight & Sound (BFI) (ISSN: 0037-4806)

High-profile endorsement; cost-effective vs. makeup.

Cultural/ethical issues; mixed critical and audience responses.

Journal of Film and Video (ISSN: 0742-4671)

Workflow efficiencies; practical production gains.

Weak cost-benefit analysis; little focus on consent frameworks.