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Oct 22, 2024, 7 tweets

Introducing, Act-One. A new way to generate expressive character performances inside Gen-3 Alpha using a single driving video and character image. No motion capture or rigging required.

Learn more about Act-One below.

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Act-One allows you to faithfully capture the essence of an actor's performance and transpose it to your generation. Where traditional pipelines for facial animation involve complex, multi-step workflows, Act-One works with a single driving video that can be shot on something as simple as a cell phone.

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Without the need for motion-capture or character rigging, Act-One is able to translate the performance from a single input video across countless different character designs and in many different styles.

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One of the models strengths is producing cinematic and realistic outputs across a robust number of camera angles and focal lengths. Allowing you generate emotional performances with previously impossible character depth opening new avenues for creative expression.

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A single video of an actor is used to animate a generated character.

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With Act-One, eye-lines, micro expressions, pacing and delivery are all faithfully represented in the final generated output.

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Access to Act-One will begin gradually rolling out to users today and will soon be available to everyone.

To learn more, visit

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