Great effect but how did they get the footage of pac so clean? is it a 3d model?
Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep. See the work of cassetteboy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_m2pFYYEiko (NSFW language) All they use is soundforge, and it's trivial. You can achieve perfect results with modern software and algorithmic assistance.
Wouldn't it be easier to just hire a voice actor or impersonator?
They did use a voice impersonator.
Re: Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
#83The technology behind this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner which uses the old Pepper's Ghost trick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppers_ghost
This led me on a one-hour Wikipedia detour and I now possess detailed development knowledge of Disney's Haunted Mansion theme park ride. Seriously cool stuff.
You and Aziz Ansari.
Re: Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
#84The technology behind this is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musion_Eyeliner which uses the old Pepper's Ghost trick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peppers_ghost
It's been on HN, but the same tech has been used extensively for a couple years now to produce Vocaloid concerts.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzYssX-CcSY#t=1m37s
It really is quite amazing unless you're at a pretty significant angle to the screen, like in the nosebleed seats or to the extreme left/right.
Re: Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
#85Coachella has done a lot of innovative tricks this year. I was impressed that anyone in US could watch three of the stages live on YouTube. Live concert footage and other live videos on the web are going to quickly make TV feel overpriced.
even more impressive that I could watch it from Austria - by now so much content is region-restricted that this was a pleasant surprise.
I watched (the rapture) from a train in Japan on my iPhone while heading to a hot spring!
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#89So after this is perfected, you could grab my image, make it look like I was the person who held up a bank and shot a hostage, and all the eyewitnesses would say it was me, and could give a positive ID? What would hidden security cameras show?
Re: Tupac image performs at Coachella [video]
#90Great effect but how did they get the footage of pac so clean? is it a 3d model?
My understanding is that the team at Digital Domain (pirates of the caribbean, Jeff Bridges in Tron) modeled the body, and then used mo-cap on an actor who did the "performance".