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By Jon Robinson
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, October 8, 2009

This story appears in the October 19 "Body Issue" of ESPN The Magazine. Kobe Bryant is dunking in the nude. Well, not the real Kobe (as far as we know). We're talking about virtual Kobe, the one on the computer screen of 2K motion-capture coordinator Steve Park. Before becoming the cover for NBA 2K10, virtual Kobe was nothing but a bunch of geometric lines and data, collected from motion capture. It was Park's job to design this stripped-down Kobe to dribble, shoot and fly like the real o ...

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