Doesn't the actor need emotions? Disney learned how to adjust the facial expression of a person in a video



    Some actors and actresses are known for the fact that they practically do not show emotions on the screen. How it is possible to remain a sought-after and popular actor with such facial expressions is not entirely clear, but perhaps these representatives of the world of cinema just know something about the future of cinema, and do not particularly worry.

    The fact is that Disney introduced a new technology that allows you to enhance or even change the emotions of an actor in already captured video. This is done using software called Face Director . This software can change the position of some frames to achieve the desired result.

    The program analyzes the actor’s face and audio material to create a new expression of the person’s face. It may be surprise, or joy, or disappointment. A person can generally just smile into the frame, especially not trying to somehow express his emotions. Interestingly, this software works with ordinary video captured using a 2D camera.

    According to the vice president of Disney Research, Markus Gross (Markus Gross), the new technology will help budget films. The fact is that many directors achieve the desired scene by repeating the same take several dozen, or even hundreds of times. This can be done if the budget of the film is large enough, because repeating the scene requires both time and money. And what about filmmakers on a budget? In this case, you can not torment the actor, but try to fix the not-so-successful shot yourself.

    Below is a video demonstrating the program. All this is one and the same frame, with the use of the program and without it. It’s quite difficult to notice what happens when the software works, everything looks quite natural. Perhaps now it will be enough for an actor to simply open his mouth without expressing any emotions, and the program will do everything by itself. The future is already here, you can not argue with that.



    And American programmers also learned how to create controlled three-dimensional models of faces based on photographs . Specialists from the University of Washington learned to model different facial expressions of the same person based on a large number of his photos. And after the model is ready, it can reproduce facial expressions by analyzing the emotions of other people in photos and videos.

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