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In this documentary of João Canijo we are struck immediately by the title - "Fantasia Lusitana" – from which we foresee a deviation from reality, and stress the irony, a staging point from which we look at Portugal. "In Lisbon, which welcomed refugees from around the world, we lived in the 40s of the twentieth century a fantasy of peace and happiness in opposition to the capitals of Europe affected by the Nazi invasion.

This article delves intrinsically into the analyze of virtual character animation - particularly in the field of 3D computer animation and human digital acting. This shift in the culture that Manovich (2006: 27) calls “photo-GRAPHICS” – and Mulvey (2007) argue that creates a new form of possessive relationship with the viewer, in that it can analyze in detail the image, it can acquire it and modify it – is one of the most important aspects in the rise of Cubbit’s (2007) “cinema of attraction”. It is in the field of 3D computer animation visual that this change is more significant, appearing regularly innovative techniques of image manipulation and “hyper-cinema” (Lamarre, 2006: 31) character’s control with deeper sense of emotions. This human motion capture technology, used largely by cinema and digital games, is one of the reasons why the authenticity of the animation is sometimes questioned.

– consists mainly on the sophistication of “rotoscoping”, as a new interpretation and appropriation of the captured image.

The result of these hybrid mixtures and computerized human motion capture techniques – called virtual cinema, universal capture, motion capture, etc. This article analyzes the characteristics of this “culture of simulation” (Turkle, 1995: 20) relating the multidisciplinary and spectrum of technical and stylistic choices to the dimension of virtual characters acting. The evolution of computer animation represents one of the most relevant and revolutionary aspects in the rise of contemporary digital visual culture (Darlew, 2000), in particular, phenomena such as cinema “spectacular ” (Ibidem) and videogames.