Actors can skip the gym with MovieReshape

Stars whose six-packs refuse to show up in time for the first day of shooting need worry no more thanks to MovieReshape, a new technology that allows filmmakers to firm flab and boost buttocks without the tedium of frame-by-frame touchups.

Christian Theobalt of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics has created software that maps a person’s silhouette onto a 3-D model that can then be manipulated by editors.

Since the technology only works with “a clear, unobstructed background,” though, it’s far more likely to be used in commercials than feature-length films for the time being.