Wrapping Face with Texture - Need Suggestions

#1

OK, this one might be a little bit tricky. Although I am a 3D expert, I want to wrap an image sequence of a face with a texture and distort it in a compositing program, preferably After Effects. I would like to find a way for the program to identify how the face transforms and transform the added texture accordingly.

So to be clearer, lets say I have a video of a woman talking that I want to project or wrap her with zebra stripes inside the program. When her face moves it also distorts the texture in the same manner. This way I can have her camoflage with the BG until she talks or even switch to a Cheetah pattern in mid sentence.

We see examples of this all the time with video codecs that shift colors. Here is even a great music video of somewhat of the same process working: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LG39Wp7OzQ. This is called Datamoshing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYytVzbPky8), not exactly what I am looking to do because the quality is so bad, but a step in the right direction.

Is there a program that analyzes I and P frames in a way that can be higher quality? Is there a program that understands and tracks the movement of various points? Is any of this After Effects relavant?

I can’t find a tutorial or demonstration of the tools or process needed to accomplish this. I would be very happy to hear some suggestions on where to get started and even if this process has a specific name.

Thanks in advance!

Drew

#2

No, pretty much not at all. You are worrying about step 2, when you haven’t even considered steps 1 a-z. How would you derive a proper texture mapping without proper shooting, lighting, special make-up? And what’s that obsession with meaningless web 2.0 buzzwords? What’s illustrated in the video can be done with a few displacement map and frame accumulation effects and has no deeper relation to what you actually seem to want nor is it anything new, let alone very original beyond the point of being realtime.

Mylenium

#3

Forgive me for using an outmoded (2.0) vocabulary to which I must be oblivious. I am only interested in what types of tools I can use to do this. Whether is it real-time, I don’t care. I do not need this as a 3D image, just a 2D movement track and apply it to another image. I would appreciate feedback and ideas.

#4

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