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Elizabeth Taylor - highly expanded version of MondoMonger post (FACESWAP ALIGNMENTS)

HarryPalmer

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I put MondoMonger's excellent Liz Taylor faces into a new face set which now has a total of 7,282 faces from various movies.

I use FaceSwap, so the alignments are in an included text file. FaceSwap has a method to transfer DFL alignments to its own format. I don't know if there is something similar for FaceSwap > DFL. If there isn't you'll have to delete the FACES folder and extract from the FRAMES folder (included) and do your own alignments - sorry about that.

These are in PNG format, which is how I work; please don't complain about that, because I'm telling it in advance.

Zip is around 854mb.

Taylor did a lot of very unloved movies which never received a Criterion-style remastering. Consequently it's real hard to get super-crisp images out of her output (except Cleopatra, where there is too much Egyptian face paint to be worth using), even where there are close-ups. So do bear that in mind. I used exclusively 1080p sources, but the sources are nearly all grainy, and clearly not remastered. Period covers most of the 60s and the early 70s.

http://www.mediafire.com/file/wwy6en9sqh306k4/ETAYLOR_FACE_SET.zip/file
 

mondomonger

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Topaz has a denoise program that is good in cleaning up grainy facesets. I've used it to clean up Marilyn Monroe and also Jennifer Connelly from the weird grain in the 1080p version of Career Opportunities. You can set the amount of denoise you want so you don't end up with the mannequin look.

Great job improving on this faceset!
 

HarryPalmer

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Verified Video Creator
mondomonger said:
Topaz has a denoise program that is good in cleaning up grainy facesets.    I've used it to clean up Marilyn Monroe and also Jennifer Connelly from the weird grain in the 1080p version of Career Opportunities.   You can set the amount of denoise you want so you don't end up with the mannequin look.

Great job improving on this faceset!

Thanks! Yes, without Topaz Denoise, I could not have created the Joan Collins model, which is probably the most accurate and widely applicable model I have ever made. I tried three times to create that dataset, each time extracting all over again from better and better sources, but nothing worked until I tried (and bought!) Denoise and ran it over the extractions that needed it.

However, that was with reasonable high-res extractions. They were grainy, but not full of compression artifacts. Running Denoise on generally LQ extractions has much worse results - you get smooth faces that lead to a useless plummet to the 0.01X loss region without actually getting good swaps.

But what can you do? If you want to do retro fakes, this problem has to be approached somehow.
 
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