Creation and use of digital humans

A system, comprising:

• a camera configured to capture images of a subject during an image-capture session;
• and
• two or more compute units, each compute unit comprising a processor and a memory, the memory of each compute unit storing instructions which, when executed be the processor of the compute unit, causes the compute units to collectively process images captured by the camera in a distributed manner by:
• presenting a set of instructions to a subject, the instructions defining movements and/or expressions for the subject to make;
• capturing the images of the subject while the subject is reacting to the set of instructions;
• appending metadata to the images as the images are captured, the metadata substantially synchronizing the images with the set of instructions;
• and
• storing the images in a database, wherein the images are indexed according to the appended metadata.

A non-transitory, computer-readable medium comprising a set of instructions stored therein which, when executed by one or more processors of a distributed computing environment, causes the one or more processors to process images by:

• presenting, by at least one processor of a plurality of processors of a distributed computing environment, a set of instructions to a subject, the instructions defining movements and/or expressions for the subject to make;
• capturing, by the at least one processor, images of the subject while the subject is reacting to the set of instructions;
• appending, by the at least one processor, metadata to the images as the images are captured, the metadata substantially synchronizing the images with the set of instructions;
• and
• storing, by the at least one processor, the images in a database, wherein the images are indexed according to the appended metadata.