- #DEEP NOSTALGIA MYHERITAGE MOVIE#
- #DEEP NOSTALGIA MYHERITAGE DRIVER#
- #DEEP NOSTALGIA MYHERITAGE SOFTWARE#
There’s no attempt to create a personality or choices in something like that – and there is historical value in knowing what people looked like many years ago. I don’t think that these issues compare to, say, facial reconstructions of dead people though. It may offer comfort to someone who misses a deceased love one but I think people are allowing themselves to be deceived into thinking the moving, smiling, blinking video is the actual person. I'd like to know how it will be credited.Īnd how little this team understands the acting craft įor me, the stated purpose of recreating the dead to this extent for nostalgia seems a bit creepy and I can’t see what it adds. It's his face on a motion capture performance and an "anonymous" actor providing voice pattern and choices. Julie Ann Emery sums up the issues succinctly on Twitter…
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Nuances of character, personality and movement are unique to an individual and all the software is doing is applying someone else’s nuances to a recognisable face. There is some crossover in the deception that Deep Nostalgia commits though because in applying pre-recorded facial movements to the face on an old photograph it may appear to have brought that person “back to life” but it is no more that person than the CGI James Dean is the actual 1950s film icon.
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Actors Chris Evans and Elijah Wood spoke out against the resurrection of James Dean in 2019 for the movie Finding Jack and while I think their objections are valid for the use of CGI to recreate on-screen performances, I don’t think the Deep Nostalgia is really something affected by most of those issues. Questions about the use of CGI in this way, and about integrity of such performances, have been mulled over on social media too. The late Marlon Brando was CGI’d back into his role as Jor-El for Superman Returns in 2006 and more recently Peter Cushing was brought back to life to “reprise” his role as the character Moff Tarkin in the Star Wars spin off film Rogue One.Īnd, of course, there was the famous Galaxy chocolate advert featuring a digital 1950s Audrey Hepburn at her loveliest. But few people realise just how common this has been in the last twenty years or so. There have been many debates around the ethics of this kind of work for years now, particularly in the movies, where dead actors have been brought back to the screen and animated via a motion captured performance.
MyHeritage’s declared intention is to allow users upload photos of deceased loved ones and see them in “action”.
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The program has a store of pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and it takes uploaded photographs and applies the one that works best for the photo in question. Deep Nostalgia is offered by the online genealogy website MyHeritage, and uses Artificial Intelligence licensed from D-ID to create the effect that a still photo is actually moving.īut Deep Nostalgia can take photos from any camera and seemingly bring them to life. I stumbled across the #deepnostalgia hashtag on Twitter this morning and was instantly curious, so went to take a look at what it was all about.
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