Magicians come to life!

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Peter Ross
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Magicians come to life!

Postby Peter Ross » February 27th, 2021, 4:34 pm


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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Max Maven » February 27th, 2021, 6:00 pm

The Uncanny Valley Cultural Society

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Peter Ross » February 27th, 2021, 6:09 pm

One more:

https://myhr.tg/1k9wL7mK

Oddly, it rejected several different pictures of Doug before this one. Perhaps the algorithm couldn't genderfy his big mustache and long flowing hair.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Joe Lyons » February 27th, 2021, 8:21 pm

Max Maven wrote:The Uncanny Valley Cultural Society

No doubt.
It certainly works.
One can't help but feel more of an affinity to these animated creatures.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Brad Jeffers » February 27th, 2021, 8:26 pm

I've been having fun with this, putting in old family photos, such as this one of my father.

I wasn't sure about that second one you posted ... https://myhr.tg/1wVFnFsC

That's Jeff McBride, right?

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Bill Mullins » February 28th, 2021, 11:26 am

Brad Jeffers wrote:That's Jeff McBride, right?


that's cold . . . .

Peter -- do Richard.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Peter Ross » February 28th, 2021, 11:49 am

I'm only doing deceased magicians. But feel free to try any that you like - It's free for a few pictures before you have to subscribe.

I did run that picture of Richard, and it turned out surprisingly well (I say surprisingly because the process seems to work best with older photos). With his permission, I'll post the link :)

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Richard Kaufman » February 28th, 2021, 12:45 pm

Sure.
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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby PressureFan » February 28th, 2021, 12:47 pm

Peter, thanks for sharing. This is wild. I've been doing old family photos, especially youthful photos of my grandparents. It's really pretty touching to see the photos animated.
I did one of Malini. I tried to do one of Si Stebbins but the photo wasn't good enough.
If you want to see something a bit creepy, try Billy the Kid. The photo from the Wikipedia entry is a good image to use. Yikes.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Richard Kaufman » February 28th, 2021, 12:55 pm

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Brad Jeffers » February 28th, 2021, 1:11 pm

PressureFan wrote:If you want to see something a bit creepy ...
They're all a bit creepy!

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Re: Magicians come to life!

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby PressureFan » February 28th, 2021, 1:43 pm

Now, here's creepy. I've had a mannequin for about 25 years and to see its face animate is almost too much. Her name is Paris, after the plaster. We may have to break up. She just has to give me time to pack.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Richard Kaufman » February 28th, 2021, 3:18 pm

Peter Ross wrote:https://myhr.tg/1CcnUVgZ


Tres bizarre!
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Re: Magicians come to life!

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Jonathan Townsend » February 28th, 2021, 4:34 pm

Andy Warhol meets The Brady Bunch :D

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Steve Cohen » February 28th, 2021, 7:27 pm

Here is Malini in the 1920s

https://bit.ly/37WFytM

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Brad Jeffers » February 28th, 2021, 11:12 pm

Brad Jeffers wrote:I've been having fun with this, putting in old family photos, such as this one of my father.

I have come to realize that the above link only works for me and only when I am logged in to the MyHeritage site.

I assure you that the woman you see when you click on the link is not my father ...


Image

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Bob Coyne » February 28th, 2021, 11:23 pm

Brad, it doesn't work to just copy the url at the top of the browser. Instead, when viewing the animation, click on the share icon and then "copy link" in the pop-up menu to get the url you can then share.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Marco Pusterla » March 1st, 2021, 4:31 am

Colorization is debatable, but still impressive:
https://myhr.tg/1LdsUhh7
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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Marco Pusterla » March 1st, 2021, 6:07 am

Marco Pusterla - https://mpmagic.co.uk

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Jack Shalom » March 1st, 2021, 1:37 pm

So let's see, a site *that collects DNA* and brings photos to life...you do the math.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby PressureFan » March 1st, 2021, 2:41 pm

I think it depends on the image. It worked for me on Charlie McCarthy (weird), Mona Lisa, George Washington, the King of Hearts (neato), and Alfred E. Newman.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 1st, 2021, 4:41 pm

Jack Shalom wrote:So let's see, a site *that collects DNA* and brings photos to life...you do the math.


No one is required to submit a DNA sample to use the photo service.
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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Jack Shalom » March 2nd, 2021, 3:24 pm

Just pointing out the kind of data they're collecting as a company. It's pretty interesting what the hedge fund who bought Ancestry is planning to do with "their" DNA...

https://www.komando.com/security-privac ... ow/748931/

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Jonathan Townsend » March 2nd, 2021, 9:28 pm

The computer program makes a still into a shallow fake. Not sure it's up to animating Lincoln to reenact the Gettysburg Address.

It's a thing. As is webcam eye motion tracking. Consider such pictures in books animated to help teach. Online could offer checking the difference between a video and an "ideal" as teaching tool.

* The newspaper images in the Harry Potter movies were animated ;)

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Peter Ross » March 4th, 2021, 7:53 am

More Houdini animations (including his mother) at https://www.wildabouthoudini.com/

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Richard Kaufman » March 4th, 2021, 12:46 pm

Not at all interested in animations of people who already exist in moving pictures. But DeLand, Robert-Houdin, Edgar Allen Poe ... these are the ones that fascinate me.
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J. E. Robert-Houdin conjured from the aether?

Postby Jonathan Townsend » March 4th, 2021, 3:04 pm

Art as in Warhol may have merit.
Yeats' Second Coming online.

Just a reminder - Rule 34 applies.

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Jonathan Townsend » March 5th, 2021, 11:07 pm

anyone try mister potatohead?

- other option: https://www.muglife.com/about
Mundus vult decipi -per Caleb Carr's story Killing Time

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Re: Magicians come to life!

Postby Tom Gilbert » March 7th, 2021, 3:40 pm

I think David Regal's FB animation was the best.


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