Character Expression/Pose Series Using Photo Characters?

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3 months ago

Thanks for all the comments regarding generating various character poses. lots of good ideas! After working through it, I've come up with an approach that works for me. It involves the use of AI video generation. The good thing is that you get a different result every time! At some point, you might find something you like.

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What you need: 1) pro level account at freepik.com (I love Freepik), 2) Adobe Photoshop

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1. On Freepik, ask it to generate a video using a descriptive prompt. Here's what I used:

"Close-up shot: A man is intensely speaking on the phone while sitting at a desk with a laptop. The background is white. First he is happy. Then he is angry. Then he is frustrated.

Keep doing this until you get a good range of expressions that you are happy with.

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2. Export the video to your desktop.

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3. Using Photoshop go to file > Import > Video frames to layers

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4. In import dialogue box, be sure to select "From beginning to end"

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5. In import dialog box, be sure to limit it to perhaps every 24 frames (assuming video was rendered at 24 FPS). This should result in you getting a new layer for every one second in the video.

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6. View each frame individually to find the frames that represent the expressions you want.

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7. When you find a frame you want, use the photoshop magic wand to delete the white background.

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8. Save layer as a dot PNG file with transparency.

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9. insert the background you wish behind the image.

Here is a link to the video that was created by Freepik:
https://twelsh.net/video-man-beard.mp4

Here are a couple of the Images rendered with the white background, and then the final images. These demo images are a bit sloppy - I did not take much time to adjust the magic want values or clean up the images, such as the edges of the man, etc. You can use the blur tool or feathering in Photoshop to clean up the edges so the character does not have a glow around it. Of course, you can process the resulting images as necessary to match your pallete/style/etc.