February 2018

There were 2 posts published in February 2018 (this is page 1 of 1).

Bieber Fever

12/02/18
Monday, 2204

Back at it again and had a crazy idea of overlaying a smaller sharper face ontop of a blurrer face(caused by the jit.fastblur effect). Hmmm..

So using these 2 models, it wasn’t a perfect fit and I found out another problem with regarding how bang works(that 2 of them cannot be banging at the same time)

I dissected the problem slowly and understood the blur needed to be heavier to create a seamless face, and a crazy idea of extracting only the features of JB’s face because that’s all I really need.

And it worked pretty well I must say.

Decided to add a final light fastblur at the end before sending it out of the subpatcher to ensure a smoother experience.

Finally with all these, I conclude I am only left with 1 problem. How can I have multiple bangs coming into the matrix at the same time? 

06/02/18
Tuesday, 1540

Bieliebers unite! I decided to use Justin Bieber for my facial swap exercise. Below is a small montage of how many faces i tried to play with to get the most accurate bieber face swap on my face.

The results weren’t great at first..

I kinda dig it though LOL. But after getting the hang of it, it the process became quite natural. Eventually testing it on a friend, it seemed pretty in sync with his face.

But I was quite unhappy with how there were these sharp edges around the face. I would probably want to do something about it at a future date.

Man With A Movie Camera Movie

Sought to bring out a technique about perspective of audiences that I took away from Man With A Movie Camera. So while brainstorming what to do, I came up with the concept of people watching people watching people….

I felt restricted by the flat 2D screens and wanted a different perspective of what perspective meant. I remembered my professor Yue Han talked about Live video and thought it would be interesting to explore that form.

I then remembered I took an instastory of this exact scene where the audiences of the 1920s were watching a movie and we were watching a movie about them watching a movie. And now my instagram followers would be viewing my story whilst I was viewing them viewing a movie. I thought that was interesting and wanted to find out how I could do it.

It was probably a coincidence that I was working on a webcam project involving manipulation of pixels of a screen using facial recognition. So using what I learnt, I went to explore luma keying and even though it took awhile, I finally figured it out after class.Was using a very complicated method to split colour to simulate colour keying before I found a much simpler method to it.This is the working and improved patcher. By routing a new object I learnt called suckah, I was able to pinpoint the exact RGB I wanted to pick out and by unpacking the list of rgb color codes, I was able to find the exact colours to key. I adjusted to tolerance to a suitable rate and applied a fullscreen patcher that enables full screen mode.

The result is as above and as presented in class. There are no alterations made on the screen captures.