Age Progression in editing??

Ciara O Donnell · 23 March 2009, 01:51

Any1 know any good editing programmes to do age progression on someone's face, or if it is easy to do age-morphing on a picture of a person, to predict what they would look like when they are older?

Jason Butler · 23 March 2009, 09:03

I think you'll need to be very skilled at photoshop for a task like that. Then any morphing software or even a dissolve could do for the transition.

It'll be easier to 'age' a still photo. If you wanted to 'age' a person in video I'd say start giving up sleeping and don't expect to be done for 6 months.

Unless someone posts a link to Magic Aging Video Master Pro Lite 2009.

Easiest and probably best way will be to use a make-up artist. Two still photos, before and after, or maybe three or more pictures for in-between stages.

sixgun · 23 March 2009, 09:25

If you want a "scientific demo" look there is a piece of software which will do it, of which I forget the name.
If you want an artistic way to do it you need a good makeup artist who can do the various stages of aging and then a skilled After Effects person to do the compositing between the stages.
check out "Kiss" on this page http://www.fxguide.com/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=436

Bren Murphy · 23 March 2009, 13:33

I once tried some morphing, used a program that morphes different images together, cant remember the name but it was free and they work pretty much the same, for faces you draw tiny little lines on one picture and move them into the corresponding area on the second picture, this is so an eye morphes into an eye and not a cheek. do as many of these lines as possible. so it morphes your image and spits out a video file that can be brought into final cut or whatever.

aging somebody I would get the shot of them, before they age, cut put on the make up job and put them back in the same position and continue shooting, then in editing, export the frame of when you want them to start aging, and also export the frame of when they are finished aging and morph the two together.

Problem with this that the morph doesn't look like footage, it looks like a gif, the grain isn't moving and it just looks weird, you can get away with it if the morph is brief and snappy.

either way as Jason said it's faster than editing two moving images together, which will take donkeys

23 March 2009, 01:51	#1
Ciara O Donnell Sound (Location +Post),Editing Galway Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 31	Age Progression in editing?? Any1 know any good editing programmes to do age progression on someone's face, or if it is easy to do age-morphing on a picture of a person, to predict what they would look like when they are older? __________________ Ciara's the name, sound is the game

23 March 2009, 09:03	#2
Jason Butler Administrator Writer / Director Dublin City Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 3,432	I think you'll need to be very skilled at photoshop for a task like that. Then any morphing software or even a dissolve could do for the transition. It'll be easier to 'age' a still photo. If you wanted to 'age' a person in video I'd say start giving up sleeping and don't expect to be done for 6 months. Unless someone posts a link to Magic Aging Video Master Pro Lite 2009. Easiest and probably best way will be to use a make-up artist. Two still photos, before and after, or maybe three or more pictures for in-between stages. __________________ Watch BUTCHERS on RTÉ Storyland www.tuftybear.com for trailer and other info my short film TUFTY My FilmmakersNetwork.ie profile

23 March 2009, 09:25	#3
sixgun Director/ VFX / Tech Dublin City Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 425	If you want a "scientific demo" look there is a piece of software which will do it, of which I forget the name. If you want an artistic way to do it you need a good makeup artist who can do the various stages of aging and then a skilled After Effects person to do the compositing between the stages. check out "Kiss" on this page http://www.fxguide.com/modules.php?n...rticle&sid=436 __________________ My Vimeo Profile My Flickr You think that's somethin? Wait til I put my shoes on.

23 March 2009, 13:33	#4
Bren Murphy shooter/cutter/scribbler Dublin City Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 1,446	I once tried some morphing, used a program that morphes different images together, cant remember the name but it was free and they work pretty much the same, for faces you draw tiny little lines on one picture and move them into the corresponding area on the second picture, this is so an eye morphes into an eye and not a cheek. do as many of these lines as possible. so it morphes your image and spits out a video file that can be brought into final cut or whatever. aging somebody I would get the shot of them, before they age, cut put on the make up job and put them back in the same position and continue shooting, then in editing, export the frame of when you want them to start aging, and also export the frame of when they are finished aging and morph the two together. Problem with this that the morph doesn't look like footage, it looks like a gif, the grain isn't moving and it just looks weird, you can get away with it if the morph is brief and snappy. either way as Jason said it's faster than editing two moving images together, which will take donkeys __________________ Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity. --Chuck Jones

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