Hyper real synthetic humans
daniel Craig Deep face project
Last year I had the pleasure to work on one of the coolest projects as a VFX Digital Compositor using Deep FaceFake Technology. The idea behind was to replace Daniel Craig face with another actor really similar to him and get the illusion of the real actor. The kind of animation and the expressions you can get with this technology is really impressive and the accuracy you gets, make me wonder how the Visual Effect industry will move really soon into technology and not just change the way how the VFX Postproductions work, also the actors and production in general also will change around it.
The sequence was 4K resolution and the camera get really close to the actor. Was important to get as much realistic as possible, especially keeping the details of the skin and natural wrinkles. I used Nuke doing multiples camera projections to clean the Background when it was needed as well as Mocha Pro export Geometry for some specific clean-up, especially close to his forehead and eyes.
If you would like to see more about this project, please visit the company that produced this idea KALEIDA
before / after
Here you can compare the images with the real actor and Daniel Craig Deep Face.
Daniel Craig in action
3 differents takes in actions.