Skin Microstructure Deformation with Displacement Map Convolution

[stevesideas]

This is pretty good stuff:

http://gl.ict.usc.edu/Research/SkinStretch/

[thablanch]

I have seen the conference by Paul Debevec on the subject (last fall if I recall correctly)

really interesting stuff

The Activision R&D crew is also developing based on this, in a 'simplified' version with 3 or 4 maps, aimed at gaming of course, with their own render engine, and the result is great..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnR2WyGUfjs