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People are now using AI to “communicate” with their deceased loved ones

Apr 17, 2023 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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AI image generators and enhancers have all sorts of applications. Some are scientifically significant, some are plain fun, and some are downright strange and unsettling. Such is the latest trend of using AI to recreate dead people.

Undertakers in China have started offering a new service that uses AI to generate life-like avatars of the deceased, allowing their family to “communicate” with them. And it’s nothing fancy, just Midjourney and ChatGPT that we can all use for the same purpose if we want – which never crossed my mind, honestly!

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Disney creates AI that changes actors’ age in seconds

Dec 5, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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The researchers at Disney have developed artificial intelligence that makes actors appear younger or older in seconds. If this becomes a standard, it could make that terrible CGI obsolete and unnecessary. It will also make it much faster, easier, and cheaper to re-age someone. But also, is it a step closer to not needing human actors at all?

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This music video took a year to create with video animation and rotoscoping

Jun 26, 2022 by Alex Baker Add Comment
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There are so many different ways to use photography, and the barriers to realising your creativity are possibly lower than ever. We have a device in our pocket that is capable of producing so many cool things, the only limit is our imagination. This interesting music video was created using very basic resources, and the result is pretty impressive.

TikToker and singer Lubalin shared a music video that his partner had made. At first glance, it looks like fairly standard animation, albeit done with line drawings. But then he shared another video showing how it was made.

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This amazing stop motion animation makes woodworking look as simple as chopping a salad

Jan 21, 2022 by John Aldred 6 Comments
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I find stop motion animation absolutely fascinating to watch, particularly when it looks as good as this. I absolutely don’t have the patience to create one myself that looks anywhere near as good as this one from Omozoc, but having at least given it a go a few times I can understand the incredible level of skill and patience required to pull off something like this. And it’s beyond my abilities for sure.

In it, we see a pair of hands making a wooden milk crate from scratch using obviously impossible methods (who pushes nails in with a spoon?) but it’s been shot and put together so well that it just seems so believable. Omozoc says he created the video from 2854 individual images and no post-processing or visual effects have been added. It’s just a stream of images lasting four minutes.

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Adobe’s new deepfake tool turns your photos into realistic animations

Oct 28, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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While we’re already playing with fun new stuff in Photoshop, Adobe also offers a sneak peek at the stuff we’re to see in the future. One of them is called Project In-Between and it lets you make something new out of a few similar photos before you choose the keeper. With a click of a button, Adobe’s new tool turns them into animation and gives them a new life.

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This algorithm creates realistic video from a single photo

Jun 16, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 1 Comment
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Researchers at the University of Washington have developed a deep learning method that only needs a single photo to make a believable video. If you have a photo of a waterfall, a river, smoke, or clouds, it predicts the previous and the next frame and creates a pretty cool animation.

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What would plastic waste look as ocean life? This incredible short film will show you

Mar 25, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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The problem of plastic in our oceans has been around for a while, and it’s not getting any better. But director and CG artist Pascal Schelbli reimagined plastic waste not as a part of the problem, but as a part of the ecosystem. In his short animated film, The Beauty, he creates an imaginary sea world out of plastic that will make you both amazed and sad.

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This website lets you merge photos with video and audio to make them talk

Mar 4, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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After Deep Nostalgia, here’s another tool that lets you animate your still images. Tokkingheads lets you choose a photo or avatar, merge it with a video to copy the moves from it, and even add audio to your creations. It’s a bit less impressive than Deep Nostalgia, but more fun and interactive… and I got totally hooked to playing with it!

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This tool turns old photos of your ancestors into creepy animations

Feb 26, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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MyHeritage has introduced some interesting tools that add a new dimension to your old family photos. It offers colorization and image enhancement, and both are AI-powered and available at a click of a button. Now there’s Deep Nostalgia, a new tool that lets you animate your photos. I tried it out, and I’m not sure whether I’m more impressed or freaked out by it.

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Artist recreates iconic music videos and movie scenes with Barbie dolls in stop-motion

Aug 6, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic 2 Comments
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I’ve said this a hundred times, but I simply love stop-motion videos. And if they can make me smile, I love them even more. Artist and animator Warren Wright has created a series of such videos, and they’ve made my day today. He uses Barbie dolls and stop-motion animation to recreate iconic movie scenes and music videos. Step aside, Madonna, Barbie’s taking over!

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Udi Tirosh: from diyphotography.netUdi Tirosh is an entrepreneur, photography inventor, journalist, educator, and writer based in Israel. With over 25 years of experience in the photo-video industry, Udi has built and sold several photography-related brands. Udi has a double degree in mass media communications and computer science.

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