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Digital Face-Swapping Getting Cheaper
Zothecula writes "If you've seen the film The Social Network, then you might have wondered about the identical Winklevoss twins — were a real-life pair of twins cast for the roles, or was it a bit of Hollywood magic? Well, it was magic. Although two different actors' bodies were used, their faces both belonged to actor Armie Hammer. After the movie was shot, the body double's face was digitally replaced with Armie's. While such computer-enabled face-swapping trickery has so far been available only to feature film-makers with deep pockets, that could be about to change, thanks to research being conducted at Harvard University (PDF)."
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It changes everything! Is that enough hyperbole yet? Why, we'll colonize the universe in no time now!
I'm waiting for inexpensive applications for home PCs where you can easily change your appearance, sort of like digital plastic surgery. Want to see what you'd look like with a nose job? How about as the other sex? I would assume something like that would be a heck of a lot more complex than mapping somebody face onto somebody else's head.
Just makes me think of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxbQ_ea-AlI
Well, I can see where this is headed. Once augmented reality becomes commonplace, and everyone is wearing glasses / contacts / implants that enhance and augment vision with information and metadata, people will be able to pay a (probably hefty) sum to the providers, and have their perceived appearance digitally enhanced. Removing wrinkles, coloring hair, shaving off a few pounds, etc.
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I want to look like Justin Beaver when I visit chatrooms with teen girls...
You can finally remove Alec Guinness from your films, as I'm certain you originally intended.
That's not nearly as creative as 1942's classic "Pride of the Yankees." Gary Cooper, who played Lou Gehrig, was right handed. Gehrig, of course, was lefty. But to have Cooper bat from the left side as a righty would be clearly obvious because it would look unnatural. Instead, he batted righty with his uniform number 3 sewed backwards on his jersey. He then hit the ball and ran to third base instead of first. Then, the studio just flopped the film. Now that's CREATIVE! vs. today's digital magic.
Apparently he has always dreamed of digitally face swapping Han Solo and Greedo's faces if technology ever advanced to that point.
I just watched the Doctor Who 2009 Christmas special called The End of Time last night. There were probably at least 50 actors/actresses who all had their head replaced by that of The Master. Even Barack Obama (a semi-prominent character in this episode) had his head replaced by that of The Master.
If only the BBC team had had this technology available, those characters could have actually turned their heads, instead of staring directly at the camera during these scenes. Oh well, it is this cheesieness that make Doctor Who what it is!
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Why not use real twins? Seems like it would be cheaper and easier to apply some SNL makeup magic to a set of real twins to make them look the part instead of doing a bunch of digital post processing.
"Hey guys, guess who made out with Angelina Jolie last night!"
then you might have wondered about the identical Winklevoss twins
I did not.
An example with a 'scramble suit' effect:
http://vimeo.com/29391633
Source:
https://github.com/arturoc/FaceSubstitution
I'd like to take his face ........ off!
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What *I* wanna know is how they managed to make Danny De-Vito and Arnold Schwarzenegger look so much alike in that movie "Twins" ??? The resemblance was so real it was spooky!
With this technique we could get all new episodes of Gilligan's Island and Hogan's Heroes. And we could put the original Darrin into all the Dick Sargent episodes of Bewitched. Imagine the possibilities!
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This will be a game changer for international syndication of content. Produce a movie in one language then use CGI to replace the moving lips and facial expressions. Computation can also be used to synthesize the voices in other languages with appropriate inflection. At a some point, producing a movie in all languages becomes a trivial computational task.
Low budget ($13 million) movie that included over 300 VFX shots. Portman and Kunis had real ballerinas as body doubles to dance most of the difficult stuff. Their faces were digitally transferred via VFX processes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n71sjmd-bM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drS0XgRdlQc
Same method used. The lead's head was superimposed on the original actor's body.
This would have saved 11 year old Lindsay Lohan a lot of work. However current Lindsay Lohan would probably just use it to buy crack.
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Anonymous is gonna LOVE this!
Done. What next, boss?