On the Matter of Creating Celebrity Likenesses

wolf359

Hi for those trying to create likenesses of famous people 
Try this experiment
( WARNING NOT AN "EXACT SCIENCE"..but interesting nonetheless)

Create face morph or use an existing character morph

Create the most realisticly lit render of the face you can
 ( in this case I used Blender cycles)

Upload to google using the "search by image" feature

Have a look at the "Visually similar results"
that google returns in its search

If your celebrity or someone very close to their appearance shows up ...you have nailed it

if not .....well back to slider manipulation and or Sculpting or "head shopping" etc.

In my case here My attempt at a morph of Actress Ayalet Zurer
Needs Much work still. 

http://www1.pictures.stylebistro.com/gi/Ayelet+Zurer+Shoulder+Length+Hairstyles+Medium+1IISKf9eWHyl.jpg

nDelphi

Yeah, it needs more work. Especially the nose.

bluejaunte

Your eyes slant downward a lot. Hers don't do that.

Mighty Mysterio

This is a useful tip. Thank you for it!

wolf359

Mighty Mysterio said:

This is a useful tip. Thank you for it!

You are most welcome

nonesuch00

Good ideal.

wolf359

Hi Well I made some change to my  attempted Ayelet Zurer morph
and uploaded again to Google with the search by image option
along with the keyword "celebrity"
The search returned some interesting results although still not my target Actress  
The "Visually Similar results"  produced Several Ann Hathaway images, Some Kim kardashian pics,Multiple Katy Perry pics,
A few Cher Bono pics,  at least 2 Leah Michelle pics
even a Jennifer connely as well as many other totally irrelevant images.

This actually kind of fun.... but a bit of a time suck
so.. back to work on a some VFX For my marvel based animated film 

 

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&tbs=simg:CAESlwEJXOFuiguTCuwaiwELEKjU2AQaBAgACD0MCxCwjKcIGmIKYAgDEiigDugYoQ6lGYEZiBqXH-cYuw68GZ8x5TGlMaI8pjGoMeYx3DGNPNcxGjCWCTwGhBj_1A3r25x1IXDDdI9Rqd7JupcUwYsznpOKrv5kjQgRkk4M5Nj6_1Ac1HE1ggBAwLEI6u_1ggaCgoICAESBJ-MY5UM&q=celebrity&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjb0rKe3_HQAhXH1ywKHZ-nDFsQsw4IKQ

Stryder87

wolf359 said:

Hi Well I made some change to my  attempted Ayelet Zurer morph
and uploaded again to Google with the search by image option
along with the keyword "celebrity"
The search returned some interesting results although still not my target Actress  
The "Visually Similar results"  produced Several Ann Hathaway images, Some Kim kardashian pics,Multiple Katy Perry pics,
A few Cher Bono pics,  at least 2 Leah Michelle pics
even a Jennifer connely as well as many other totally irrelevant images.

Actually, out of all those listed, I can see Jennifer Connely...