Watching it never grows old.


Anthony Cerniello's aging simulation video (above) is blowing minds across the Web not only for its haunting effect -- but for his painstaking process to achieve it.


Cerniello used his friend Danielle as the main model and turned her into a composite[1] by combining photos of her relatives, young and old, who have the greatest facial resemblance, thisiscolossal.com reported. Then animators and a 3D specialist helped bring the subtle transitions to life.


"I attempted to create a person in order to emulate the aging process[2] ," Cerniello wrote on his Vimeo page. "The idea was that something is happening but you can't see it but you can feel it, like aging itself."


The five-minute video is "easily one of the best depictions of the aging process we've ever seen," culture blog io9.com wrote.

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