"deep facial" - none deepfake method for facial fakes - Scar Jo & Em Wats Example vid

[LoveSplat]

This being my first post here i wanted to post something i've been working on and i thought this might be the most relevant place. Having been out of a faker scene for a while i've no idea what forums and things still exist. 

it's not exactly "deep fake" but it's a similar  so i thought this might be the most relevant place to post it first. i though i'd just check before posting the video i've made as a first test.

basically i've devised a way to make facial fakes with videos using various software and techniques that arent that difficult and so far the result is... acceptable. main problem being my general facial faking skills being rather rusty to get a good result and partly down to limitations with the current software i'm using. 

Not sure is there an actual "mrdeepfakes" or an admin that can give me the go ahead to post a video on the site thats a fake facial video (of a celebrity) but thats not using the deep fake software.

 

[dpfks]

Thanks for asking ahead of time, or else I may have accidentally deleted it automatically.

You can upload it, but mark it as "Private" and then share it in the forums for discussion.

 

[LoveSplat]

Thanks for asking ahead of time, or else I may have accidentally deleted it automatically.

You can upload it, but mark it as "Private" and then share it in the forums for discussion.

okay, didnt realise there was a private option. Where would the most suitable place to post it be to get responses from people who might be interested. Just here in general discussion? or is there somewhere better suited?

either way here is the first one i've done. 
Scarlett Johansson Facial (Not deepfake)

 

[dpfks]

Does the video have to be low frame rate? I expected it to be projected on the face actually.

 

[LoveSplat]

Does the video have to be low frame rate? I expected it to be projected on the face actually.

it doesnt have to be. thats just the way the video was shot. i thought it might help the tracking since its a nice slow stead movement where she herself doesnt move a lot. i think it worked out pretty good.

it still has the similar issues to deep fakes of there being micro drifting of the tracking. so i'll be doing some more regular speed video tests. but also testing what say native 60fps source does to see if it helps. 

the thing that takes the most time right now though is just getting the actual facial fake texture, it comes with all the skill required to make a good photo fake and i'm pretty out of practice. but if some of the good facial fakers out there could start getting involved it would make this a far easier process.

i've put together another test video. this time its more the opposite of the firct. very short, quick camera movement. just to test what it can do. Next will probably be something more like a semi long scene from a movie. 

Scarlett Johansson Black Widow Facial (Not deepfake)

edit. oh and what do you mean by you expected it to be projected onto the face?

 

[LoveSplat]

done another quick one of emma watson this time. A supposedly dramatic shot from the end of the trailer for some movie shes in. I think this ending would make it have some more impact.

Emma Watson Facial (Not deepfake)

 

[TMBDF]

I assume you are making this in AE by tracking 2D cum/facial texture to face and warping it to give it a 3D appearance while using masks to hide parts that are occluded or is it done with EbSynth? Looks to clean for Eb, it usually fucks up some parts.

All in all, it's no different than the old "fakes" people used to do manually so I'm just wondering what's the point.

 

[LoveSplat]

I assume you are making this in AE by tracking 2D cum/facial texture to face and warping it to give it a 3D appearance while using masks to hide parts that are occluded or is it done with EbSynth? Looks to clean for Eb, it usually fucks up some parts.

All in all, it's no different than the old "fakes" people used to do manually so I'm just wondering what's the point.

no, not using ae. not having to warp anything or use masks. 

dont know what old fakes you're refering to, old photo facial fakes? or did people used to manually do animated facial fakes? I dont recall seeing that except about as rarely as i'd see the animated face replacements. The point i guess is just like deepfakes meant people didnt have to manually go in and do a whole lot of work. the method i'm using uses completely free software and very little work. So people can potentially get good results for animated facial fakes. That could possibly even be combined with deepfake videos. Since if i'm not mistaken the deepfake software doesnt seem to have a solution yet for keeping a facial and just erases it leaving the celebrities face. 

The method i suppose could also be useful for people doing none porn related scenes maybe if they are doing scenes from movies where there is makeup or prostetics on the actors face that are being lost in the conversion this could reaply those pretty simply.

 

[papolk]

EbSynth works well for that task.

 

[LoveSplat]

EbSynth works well for that task.

any examples of peoples work using absynth? i cant seem to find anything. or a guide for how to do it? took a look at it a while ago thinking it would be useful for this but couldnt get anything useful out of it.

 

[papolk]

EbSynth works well for that task.

any examples of peoples work using absynth? i cant seem to find anything. or a guide for how to do it? took a look at it a while ago thinking it would be useful for this but couldnt get anything useful out of it.

Absynth is nice too

 

[LoveSplat]

EbSynth works well for that task.

any examples of peoples work using absynth? i cant seem to find anything. or a guide for how to do it? took a look at it a while ago thinking it would be useful for this but couldnt get anything useful out of it.

Absynth is nice too

i was wondering what all the dials were for. i've got lay off the absinthe



but so is there any examples? because it seems no one bothers to use it for this.

 

[TMBDF]

I did this once as a test: but I had problem with more frames/longer clips due to bad blending of keyframes but I think how could I solve this, it would however require use of additional software, in addition to already requiring either knowledge of manual unclothing in photoshop/gimp or fixing in it still bad results of deepnude/dreamtime. Same goes for higher resolution stuff, not only is it harder to make a realistic unlcothing effect, it does easily break, showing outlines of the painted out parts in next frames so... I could make an guide but to be honest, it's not actually hard, it takes like a minute to learn, and there are existing guides already that show all there is to it, how you use it is up to you.

 

[LCC]

Damn, thanks for the introduction to Ebsynth. There are some ridiculously cool things you could do with this.

As for the facial stuff, it looks really good. The only criticism would be the lighting not matching 100%. Not sure what you're using, but messing around with source images and any options might be worth your time.

Choosing videos with very even, soft lighting and no hard shadows is a good idea.

 

[avalentino93]

I assume you are making this in AE by tracking 2D cum/facial texture to face and warping it to give it a 3D appearance while using masks to hide parts that are occluded or is it done with EbSynth? Looks to clean for Eb, it usually fucks up some parts.

All in all, it's no different than the old "fakes" people used to do manually so I'm just wondering what's the point.

no, not using ae. not having to warp anything or use masks. 

dont know what old fakes you're refering to, old photo facial fakes? or did people used to manually do animated facial fakes? I dont recall seeing that except about as rarely as i'd see the animated face replacements. The point i guess is just like deepfakes meant people didnt have to manually go in and do a whole lot of work. the method i'm using uses completely free software and very little work. So people can potentially get good results for animated facial fakes. That could possibly even be combined with deepfake videos. Since if i'm not mistaken the deepfake software doesnt seem to have a solution yet for keeping a facial and just erases it leaving the celebrities face. 

The method i suppose could also be useful for people doing none porn related scenes maybe if they are doing scenes from movies where there is makeup or prostetics on the actors face that are being lost in the conversion this could reaply those pretty simply.

Ok just share your project already and lets help build it.