Jan 18, 2010 0
Animate image returns
Artist Andres Laracuente, my partner, has long wanted to make a piece using images of Vladimir Putin’s daughters. The elusive offspring have managed to avoid being photographed on a scale that seems incomprehensible in today’s paparazzi-fueled celebrity culture. According to Andres, only two images of Maria and Yekaterina Putin as adults are publicly available online.
Fortunately for Andres, 3D morphable face animation has advanced to such a degree that its now possible to create a realistic video from any 2D photo; the technology can used to animate a photo’s subject while altering their expression, weight and illumination. You can even make a female subject “a man” and vice versa. See this video, made by Volker Blanz & Thomas Vetter at the MPI for Biological Cybernetic’s, for more info.
