Near future
No Result
View All Result
March 28 2023
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
CES2023 / Coronavirus / Russia-Ukraine
Near future
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+

Understand, anticipate, improve the future.

No Result
View All Result
Technology

Disney's incredible age-changing technology will blow up all the entertainment molds

It will be possible to change the age of an actor at will, and in a completely automatic way. A tsunami is coming for the entertainment industry.

December 3 2022
Gianluca RiccioGianluca Riccio
⚪ 4 minutes
Share51Pin12Tweet32SendShare9ShareShare6

READ THIS IN:

Technologies that can change an actor's age are becoming increasingly popular in the Hollywood entertainment industry. Over the past five years many actors, including Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Bruce Willis and others, have used digital effects to look younger or older in movies and TV series.

In some cases, these attempts to trick the public into thinking that movie stars are significantly younger or older have proved unconvincing. In one case (you saw The Mandalorian?) decidedly embarrassing. However, many indications suggest that progress is being made.

Formula Indy

entertainment re-aging
A young again Harrison Ford in a frame of the "new old" Indiana Jones.

Harrison Ford's upcoming breakthrough that he will be 30 again in the next Indiana Jones could represent a turning point for the development of "re-aging" technology in the entertainment sector: and Disney, in particular, seems to be leading the charge. Coincidentally, the folks at Disney's visual effects division announced a major breakthrough in this field just a day before Lucasfilm rolled out its first trailer for Indiana Jones 5.

In a new research paper (that I link to you here), the entertainment giant announces its proprietary technology called FRAN (Face Re-aging Network). It's being described as "the first practical, fully automatic, production-ready method for age-changing faces," and it sounds mightily impressive.

The article continues after the related links

AI and content creation: prepare for digital overload

ClimateGAN, the AI ​​that shows the world upset by the rising seas

actors age effects technology
An image showing some tests of Disney entertainment technology to change the age of the actors.

How? Using a program called StyleGAN2 (by the way: you know what are GANs?), which generates thousands of artificial faces. This allows him to more accurately predict the changing appearance of the human face over long periods of time. FRAN eliminates the costly and time consuming need to manually collect data on these changes.

The entertainment industry will be transformed

In other words, Disney's visual effects division developed an algorithm that virtually tracks the aging process to more effectively apply authentic physical alterations to real-life subjects.

Get an idea of ​​how this system works from the demo video, released by DisneyResearchHub on November 30th. Impressive, right?

What will this technology mean for the entertainment industry? What impact will it have on filmmakers, film studios and film enthusiasts? If movie studios can use re-aging technology of the kind made possible by FRAN we could see more and more Hollywood heroes "rejuvenate." Or films with "young" versions of our favorites much more faithful than they are today.

A trend that, placed next to that of "resurrecting" digitally even already deceased actors to get them to star in new films it can be completely disruptive (for better or for worse) to entertainment.

Tags: special effectsentertainmentGAN


GPT Chat Megaeasy!

Concrete guide for those approaching this artificial intelligence tool, also designed for the school world: many examples of applications, usage indications and ready-to-use instructions for training and interrogating Chat GPT.

To submit articles, disclose the results of a research or scientific discoveries write to the editorial staff

Most read of the month

  • AirCar, Lazzarini's flying car is a 750km/h racing car with 4 seats

    397 Shares
    Share 159 Tweet 99
  • Oculus gives VR visit to the Anne Frank house

    197 Shares
    Share 79 Tweet 49
  • Animals that know how to live forever and where to find them

    952 Shares
    Share 380 Tweet 238
  • Hard truths: Would China already be stronger than the US in a conflict?

    5 Shares
    Share 2 Tweet 1
  • Offshore Solar Energy: Seavolt is about to revolutionize the industry

    4 Shares
    Share 1 Tweet 1
  • We will talk to animals: the bioacoustic revolution passes through AI

    5 Shares
    Share 1 Tweet 1
  • German brewing monks: "goodbye bottles and transport costs, here is the powdered beer"

    4 Shares
    Share 1 Tweet 1

Enter the Telegram channel of Futuroprossimo, click here. Or follow us on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Mastodon e LinkedIn.

The daily tomorrow.


Futuroprossimo.it provides news on the future of technology, science and innovation: if there is something that is about to arrive, here it has already arrived. FuturoProssimo is part of the network ForwardTo, studies and skills for future scenarios.

FacebookTwitterInstagramTelegramLinkedInMastodonPinterestTikTok
  • Environment
  • Architecture
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Gadgets
  • concepts
  • Innovative
  • Medicine
  • Spazio
  • Robotica
  • Work
  • Inland solutions
  • Energy
  • Edition Francaise
  • Deutsche Ausgabe
  • Japanese version
  • English Edition
  • Portuguese Edition
  • Русское издание
  • Spanish edition

Subscribe to our newsletter

  • The Editor
  • Advertising on FP
  • Privacy Policy

© 2022 Near future - Creative Commons License
This work is distributed under license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

No Result
View All Result
Understand, anticipate, improve the future.
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Health
  • Environment
  • Energy
  • Inland solutions
  • Spazio
  • AI
  • concepts
  • H+