LivePortrait

Over the past few years, there’s been a series of models that can take an input video of a face and use it to drive an animation of a single still portrait image. LivePortrait is a recent attempt, and while not perfect, the results are pretty good. I’ve used it here to animate a photo of me!

As a studio that often works on historical documentaries, we’re often asked to bring archive material to life. This might involve animating and dimensionalising old black and white photographs. A tool like LivePortrait could be instrumental in animating faces within those photographs.

Of course, the use of such tools would have to be carefully considered, you’re literally puppeting someone’s face after all!