5 faces
Five
Faces
Do multiple faces mean automatic super-villain status?
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I am nothing if not a mad scientist, had I any talents in biology or any sort of life sciences I would be the guy in a lab that accidentally created a super hero/villain out of myself and at this moment a blockbuster movie would be in production about my life. It would be a massive success and I would be stumbling out of the car with Paris Hilton as we speak… and my wife would be pissed but she’d understand because I wasn’t myself, it was the mad science that made me freak out.
Alas, I have no biology skills whatsoever… but that doesn’t mean I can’t mess around in a digital lab.
Earlier today I thought to myself, what if I took five beautiful women and combined them into one face. Would the resulting image be some sort of super-villain or simply an ode to the simple beauty that exists in every face, in every girl, in every country of the world. You be the judge.
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25 Comments
21 April 09 at 5:45am
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21 April 09 at 5:52am
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:-) Athur Batut was the man who invented the firsts "portrait type". The technique was a morphing from a whole family's faces (or a village) to look if the "new" portrait was a "type" from the whole group. Have a look at this : http://www.espacebatut.fr/ I'm working near this museum ;-)
21 April 09 at 8:05am
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21 April 09 at 9:07am
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21 April 09 at 9:47am
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21 April 09 at 9:56am
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interesting! i would like to see another example (:
21 April 09 at 1:25pm
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Gabs, Thanks for that great link!
21 April 09 at 1:45pm
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i cant stop staring!
21 April 09 at 3:18pm
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Fascinating how the new image has an angelic & pure quality about it. @Gabs - Cool link on Arthur Batut. He did that without Photoshop!
21 April 09 at 9:01pm
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Woah! hot!
21 April 09 at 11:37pm
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Very interesting! Great job JG:-).It`s just amazing how you can manipulate 5 photos into one! Your work is exellent,everything!:-)
22 April 09 at 9:43am
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Well that's what I like to call "Super Cool!"
24 April 09 at 8:56am
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I've found with this, is that there is a certain face that may be "stronger" than the others and even though mixed with others is still predominant. The lower half is predominantly #5 and the top half still has a lot of her there. But it is a new face nonetheless. Try squinting, it makes it even more powerful.
26 April 09 at 2:38pm
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It does seem to me that the compilation image is more surreally perfect "beautiful" than any one individual model's photo. It would be interesting to make a sci-fi film using a heroine character that is an amalgamated video of multiple beautiful females. I'd love to see some more.
27 April 09 at 7:23am
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wow, I certainly agree with sterling tht it has an angelic look, did u change the layer modes or just the opacity? if u went for the layer modes I'dve imagined it would have been more abstract? good work. thanks for the blog. xx
27 April 09 at 2:54pm
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Ed, To get all 5 images to be equally (or at least nearly equally) represented I had to incorporate a couple methods including a different opacity for each layer as well as some tinkering with a layer mode or two.
01 May 09 at 9:44am
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That's long way for super-villain.. Unless by villain you mean pure beauty. Great idea to try, I have a friend that for his masters did the same thing but with about 3000 people - He tried to find the average face. I must say that your five look WAY better :)
02 May 09 at 2:10am
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You're not the first one to wonder about this...check out Face Research - http://www.faceresearch.org/demos/average
02 May 09 at 2:14am
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Steven that link is REALLY cool! Thanks!
07 May 09 at 6:26am
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It is quite interesting. I never thought about this and the examples are pretty right.
01 June 09 at 9:19pm
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da best. Keep it going! Thank you
25 June 09 at 6:57pm
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Try averaging these faces http://bit.ly/BwT2V
09 September 09 at 12:45pm
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I can't find the video tutorial you posted a while back about how to fake an HDR image. Repost? Thanks! I love your work!
26 January 11 at 4:51am
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Striking photos! So professionally done! Beautiful and expressive!
26 July 11 at 11:27am
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I recently followed a TV report about a piece of experimental software that is capable of judging 'beauty' like humans do. I suppose that PortraitProfessional uses similar algorithms to sculpture faces. Anyway, I don't think that your 'creature' is the sum of the five models - and that's good. Phew! Then, however, I followed the link that Steven posted and fell in love with my result. :D