Animate

As if still-image deepfakes aren’t bad enough, we may soon have to contend with generated videos of anyone who dares to put a photo of themselves online: with Animate Anyone, bad actors can puppeteer people better than ever. The new generative video technique was developed by researchers at Alibaba Group’s Institute for Intelligent Computing. It’s a big step forward from previous image-to-video systems like DisCo and DreamPose, which were impressive all the way back in summer but are now ancient history. What Animate…

Today, Epic is releasing a new tool designed to capture an actor’s facial performance using a device as simple as an iPhone and apply it to a hyperrealistic “MetaHuman” in the Unreal Engine in “minutes.” The feature, dubbed MetaHuman Animator, was detailed at the Game Developers Conference in March but is now available for developers to try out for themselves. Epic has also released a new video today produced by one of its internal teams to show what the tool is capable of.While Epic’s short film shows off some…

Imagine animating another hyperrealistic person using just your iPhone. That’s exactly what Epic is saying you’ll be able to do later this year. Today, Epic Games hosted the State of Unreal at GDC, its event where the company unveils the latest technology powering Unreal Engine. At the event, the team announced that it will bring its Metahuman Animation technology to iPhones. The new Metahuman Animator feature set promises to make performance capture easier and more accessible for game creators. The…

Create animated GIFs of your plots with the python library Pillow to bring life to your insightsPhoto by Awesome Sauce Creative on UnsplashScenarioYou are a data scientist that has developed an algorithm or performed some advanced analysis linked to a dynamic process.Because you want to show the impact of your solution, you plot the results using a conventional library of python.Example of a Pathfinding Solution — (Image by Author)However, your graphs are not self-explicit and do not reflect the dynamic aspect of the…

Make Matplotlib animations easier to understandPhoto by Lukas Blazek on UnsplashAnimating your data visualizations can add a whole layer of depth to your visualization. The example below, for example, adds the time dimension to your data visualization. You can easily see how populations change by age group over time. By animating the visualization, we can easily see trends change over time, over detailed groups.Given the breadth of options available in Matplotlib, learning how to animate your graphs can seem like a…