{"id":19948,"date":"2015-12-12T04:47:53","date_gmt":"2015-12-12T12:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/facedirector-software-generates-desired-performances-in-post-production-avoiding-reshoots"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:17:53","slug":"facedirector-software-generates-desired-performances-in-post-production-avoiding-reshoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/facedirector-software-generates-desired-performances-in-post-production-avoiding-reshoots","title":{"rendered":"FaceDirector software generates desired performances in post-production, avoiding reshoots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/facedirector-software-generates-desired-performances-in-post-production-avoiding-reshoots.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some film directors are famous for demanding that scenes be shot and re-shot repeatedly until actors express just the right emotion at the right time, but directors will be able to fine-tune performances in post-production, rather than on the film set, with a new system developed by Disney Research and the University of Surrey.<\/p>\n<p>Called FaceDirector, the system enables a director to seamlessly blend <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/facial+images\/\" rel=\"tag\">facial images<\/a> from a couple of video takes to achieve the desired effect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not unheard of for a director to re-shoot a crucial scene dozens of times, even 100 or more times, until satisfied,\u201d said Markus Gross, vice president of research at Disney Research. \u201cThat not only takes a lot of time \u2014 it also can be quite expensive. Now our research team has shown that a director can exert control over an actor\u2019s performance after the shoot with just a few takes, saving both time and money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-12-facedirector-software-desired-post-production-reshoots.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some film directors are famous for demanding that scenes be shot and re-shot repeatedly until actors express just the right emotion at the right time, but directors will be able to fine-tune performances in post-production, rather than on the film set, with a new system developed by Disney Research and the University of Surrey. Called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69031,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19948\/revisions\/69031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}