Thorne Brandt

I've stumbled upon down the first step for developing face swap feature, and it's quite entertaining by itself. Facial tracking, poisson blending, and model creation. For this example it can be manually triggered, on things which aren't necessarily faces, which means you can now finally safely faceswap with your cat!

You can try out the experiment yourself here , considering you have a webcam, are in a well lit area, and are using Chrome.

I'm trying to create a faceswap feature.

In trying to debug the facetracking problem in which the alignment was off and my drapes were consistently becoming the face, I am now capturing the image data for the mask on every frame. Because of the difference in scale, it creates almost a liquid displacement effect which I thoroughly enjoy.

TODO - create a tool that exagerrates this.

This virtual webcam sculpting tool is meant to be experienced in a space in which the feed from the HTC Vive is projected onto the space directly where the user is standing so that a disorienting feedback loop is created.

Read about the process behind my collaboration with Eryka Dellenbach's elegant performance piece in which a puppet was controlled by her position on a physical stage.

Part of the improv & tech show Nothing Up My Sleeve at Digital Art Demo Space

I'm always looking for opportunities to work live photoshopping onto the stage. I feel that it has a lot of potential as a performance tool, especially with scripting. The main gag for this act was to capture an image of an audience member in real time and then embarrass in front of the crowd them with an album family photos of awkward stages.

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