[15:11 Thu,10.February 2022 by Rudi Schmidts] |
About 18 months ago, we were already amused by twitter.com/tg_bomze/status/1274245778551328769 following tweet in which the 8-bit representation of Duke Nukem was "upscaled" to a real human face via super-resolution: ;) AI superscaling turns Duke Nukem into a real image.
However, it was already clear to us at the time that this would not remain the last AI experiment in this direction. After Brazilian artist Hidreley Leli Diao discovered  GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) for generating photorealistic portraits of people, she had the idea of unleashing them on various animation celebrities. The results are worth seeing, and she has been posting them regularly on her Instagram account ever since. ;) And indeed, most of the generated real-life images look like plausible templates of their animated counterparts. And in a quality that is indistinguishable from real photos. Which in turn should inspire us to ponder numerous new possibilities for this AI application. Already today, such generated faces could be very helpful to search specifically for similar persons with a casting for a real film adaptation of comic characters. Also, today one could already put the virtual personalities generated here over filmed actors via face swapping, which would also solve the problem of plausible character animation. But the big elephant in the room is, of course, the breakthrough of real-looking digital actors. If you take a closer look at the photos taken here, you can probably assume that we will see such synthetic characters "for real" in the next decade at the latest. Perhaps not "only" in series and films, but even at meetings in the metaverse. Certainly not a reassuring idea for actors...  more infos at bei petapixel.comdeutsche Version dieser Seite: KI generiert reale Animations-Berühmtheiten |
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