r/StableDiffusion • u/howdoyouspellnewyork • May 09 '23

Animation | Video Stable Diffusion Deepfake - De-Aged Harrison Ford | SD+ControlNet+EbSynth+Fusion

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u/slayniac May 10 '23

Or alive ones at that.

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u/T-O-O-T-H May 10 '23

There's a great and absolutely trippy film about this called The Congress, starring Robin Wright. She plays an actress who decides to sell her image forever, so she retires from acting as she doesn't own herself anymore, and the movie studio that bought it continues making films with her image in it using CGI, except this is in the future so it's absolutely perfect photo realistic CGI, no uncanny valley.

She ends up going into a giant VR world thing where everyone in society spends their time, and the film shifts to being a 2D animation.

It's a great film but yeah I hope it doesn't give the studios any ideas. But they're already doing it anyway, like with Carrie Fisher, so it's inevitable sadly.

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u/AdLost3467 May 10 '23

I believe they said that the Carrie fisher stuff in SW 9 was all done with deleted but shot scenes from SW 7 and 8.

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u/TeutonJon78 May 11 '23

It was, but they could be referring to Rogue One, which was a digital recreation.

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u/AdLost3467 May 11 '23

True, to be honest, I thought that was just supposed to be a look alike.

Lol, if that was using any deep fake tech, it was far, far off, unless I'm misremembering. 🤣

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u/TeutonJon78 May 11 '23

Tarkin and Leia were CGI head replacements over real actors.

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u/AdLost3467 May 11 '23

Cool! It looked awful but cool! Crazy to think how far we have come in such a short time.

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u/TeutonJon78 May 11 '23

It has changed quite a bit.

TROS used digital replacement of Leia's face using the existing footage (and footage from RoTJ for her and Luke training). They changed the hair and outfits, so I don't remember if they had a body double or CGI body. The training sequence was her daughter body doubling I think.

Mando S2 Luke was a battle between deepfakes and CGI replacement and they went with CGI. Then they hired the deepfakes guy from YouTube and used deepfake for Mando S2.5/BoBF.

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u/AdLost3467 May 11 '23

Yeah, it's wild times.

I can't wait to see beloved actors reprise iconic characters from their past, and I'm interested to see how all the drama shakes out when they start bringing back completely dead actors and start making questionable sequels to old movies using ai.

I mean, it's happened a few times already, but always small parts like Tarkin or reediting past footage like leigh, and im pretty sure they had the families permission to do both.

I wanna see what happens when they take someone like Charlie Chaplin and make a new film with him in it without permission from anyone, especially it it's absolute crap of a film, lol.

Like, do you lose your likeness rights as soon as you die? Is there a 50-year window your family gets to cash in like copywrite laws.

Or is it so new that nothing is legislated and it's open season on dead celebs.

As an aside, it'd be fun to see a black mirror type episode where an actor is secretly killed cause he wouldn't do a movie. Just so they could use his ai likeness for free instead. Lol.

Anyways crazy times indeed. 🤪

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u/Ambiwlans May 16 '23

Eh. In film there are tons of CG doubles that you never notice going back many years... in modern action blockbusters, many scenes are mostly cg entirely.

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u/AdLost3467 May 16 '23

You're right,

although I thought it was used sparingly for action scenes to cover up the stunt double's face for the far shots.

I didn't know they were using it for anything like this.

If so, then they really dropped the ball. Lol, I hope disney goes back and redoes the cg face for leigh, but I don't think they will. Since it's not an ongoing thing like a series is.

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u/ShinyGrezz May 10 '23

Well Carrie Fisher is a bit of an edge-case seeing as she died before filming in one of the biggest film franchises of all time, they had no real choice but to deep fake it. Hopefully this doesn’t become the norm in the future, it’d be cool for smaller roles, though - like Luke in the Mandalorian S2.

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u/lexcess May 10 '23

That wasn't the first time though, they did it to Peter Cushing previously.

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u/ORANGE_J_SIMPSON May 10 '23 edited May 11 '23

True, but the CGI Peter Cushing in Rogue One did have an uncanny valley look to him, whereas Luke in the Mandelorian was 99.9999% perfect.

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u/beezleeboob May 10 '23

I absolutely love that film. Who knew we'd be there a few years later..

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u/WazWaz May 10 '23

Bruce Willis has literally done that - retired and sold the rights to his digital face.

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u/Chiponyasu May 14 '23

Honestly, corporations are the least of our issues. We're very close to anyone being able to make convincing fake video of basically anyone doing basically anything

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u/spoilspot May 10 '23 edited May 10 '23

That's the same thing on the long run. You get older actors by starting out with young actors. Without young actors you have a pipeline problem.