Thread by @FlintDibble

Alright, I'm joining the game and animating some ancient stuff. This is from the Acropolis Museum in Athens

Kinda fun, though it won't work on ancient animals! I'll add more as I get some OK ones

Here's Alexander the Great

Here's Myrtis, one of the little girls buried in an ancient Athenian plague pit. You can read more about her here:

https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1243552508271886338

This animation is based off of a facial reconstruction, which is based off her skeletal remains

This is an anatomical votive from the Sanctuary of Asclepius at Corinth (excavated by @ASCSAthens)

Here is one of the Fayyum mummy portraits (from Roman Egypt) in the British Museum

Another mummy portrait. I'd guess not surprising these look so realistic, after all they are some of the more realistic portrayals of humans from the ancient Mediterranean

I guess we can end with the Kore Phrasikleia

Final verdict: kinda weird. But some of these might show up in my powerpoints or twitter threads in the future

I'd like to try to trick it with something fun, but so far haven't succeeded

Oops, looks like I attached hte wrong file to the first mummy portrait above. Here's the animated version

He lengths scholars will go to try to get this to work! Bravo @duxfeminafacti9!

https://twitter.com/duxfeminafacti9/status/1365874839391789056?s=19

Finally got this to work on a bronze statue: Zeus or Poseidon from the Artemision shipwreck

Ooh, this drinking cup turned out pretty cool

I finally found a gorgon that it will animate

And the results are as crazy as one will expect

Marius will haunt you

At the request of @LogeionGkLat, I present to you Pompey Magnus

This software really doesn't like bronze, which is a shame

I've found that turning them to black and white help

Here is the Meroe Augustus

I got it to work on the baby hercules statue (cc @duxfeminafacti9)

This simply does not do justice to the amazing hairstyle in the original

It's a sin

This one is a little better

Welp, turns out animating the colossal Constantine was a colossal mistake

Poppaea Sabina is in the house

Btw, while you're here admiring technological wizardry bringing ancient art to "life," why not take a moment and learn a bit about why the context of ancient art matters!

I know, I know, but there are ancient nudie pics. Trust me it's worth it!

https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1163435944642588673?s=19

And here's Pericles. He seems to be struggling a bit, probably some aftereffects from the plague...

(see here on the Athenian plague:

https://twitter.com/FlintDibble/status/1242788506260377601

)

Nero's neckbeard predictably slaps

Vespasian's verism works well

And the fauno rosso from Hadrian's villa (photo by @carolemadge)

And just to point out that to be honest, we've had similar technology for a long time!

such as this GIF, which is similarly creepy

The Bronze charioteer from Delphi

Woman with a stylus, wall-painting from Pompeii

The pulsating head on this animated statue from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is super creepster

Equally creepy is this eye-less, bronze Augustus (also from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens)

The Antinous from the National Archaeological Museum in Athens (@museumsmoments) is quite dashing though

Ok, it is apparently possible with this other app (mug-life) to do animal images

Sorry, not sorry

https://twitter.com/meridamate/status/1366106433348132868?s=19

The Gayer-Anderson cat from @britishmuseum

And a close-up

This mug-life does a much better job

cc @duxfeminafacti9 look what you can do with this android app mug-life

Now that I can do all these bronze statues, it's over

The tongue on this tetrarch is super weird

A new and improved gorgon

Oh and this mug-life app can do multiple faces at once

Another red-figure head vase

The Terms Boxer

And special for @ProfMakins, the red marble Marsyas

Alright I finally creeped myself out with this one. I think I'm done!

(I do wish they worked better with animals though)

And if you enjoyed these archaeological animations, you should also check out the historical animations created by @fakehistoryhunt

https://twitter.com/fakehistoryhunt/status/1365851229021208576?s=19

And if you like paleoart, here's some animations based on facial reconstructions if various hominids by @LeMoustier

https://twitter.com/LeMoustier/status/1365757781438066690?s=19

On that note, I need to add one more near and dear to me

This is Bouchra, "the world's oldest child," from the paleolithic site of Smuggler's Cave in Morocco (excavated by my dad). She's an 8 year old girl who lived 108,000 years ago

Animation of a reconstruction