Bloop
Sr Member
I wasn't sure if this belongs anywhere on this site, but I figured it falls under "Entertainment" as much as anything else. I've been making deepfake videos, mainly focusing on fixing things like deaging in older films using current deepfake tech.
My most recent video, though, is "fixing" the new 2023 movie, Wonka, by replacing Timothée Chalamet's face with Gene Wilder, from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I wish I could change his voice, too, but that'll have to wait:
It may seem like it's easy to swap faces nowadays, but in order to do it relatively convincingly, there's still a lot of work involved. For example, in addition to the hours of prep work, the days (even weeks) of time running the deepfake software to replace the source face, and finally, the finishing edits, I had to recreate Chalamet's face in all the shots where his hand goes in front of his face because the deepfake tech isn't quite good enough to swap a face when too much of the original face is obscured. There's masking tools that I tried to use - which worked well for the "hover-chocs" and the teacup he eats - but they were inadequate for masking his hand.
I also have to do a lot of single-frame editing after the deepfake conversion is finished (both in Photoshop and in After Effects) to try to make the video seamless.
Anyway, I hope you like it.
My most recent video, though, is "fixing" the new 2023 movie, Wonka, by replacing Timothée Chalamet's face with Gene Wilder, from the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I wish I could change his voice, too, but that'll have to wait:
It may seem like it's easy to swap faces nowadays, but in order to do it relatively convincingly, there's still a lot of work involved. For example, in addition to the hours of prep work, the days (even weeks) of time running the deepfake software to replace the source face, and finally, the finishing edits, I had to recreate Chalamet's face in all the shots where his hand goes in front of his face because the deepfake tech isn't quite good enough to swap a face when too much of the original face is obscured. There's masking tools that I tried to use - which worked well for the "hover-chocs" and the teacup he eats - but they were inadequate for masking his hand.
I also have to do a lot of single-frame editing after the deepfake conversion is finished (both in Photoshop and in After Effects) to try to make the video seamless.
Anyway, I hope you like it.
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