November 7, 2024 8 minute read I’ve been having quite a bit of fun with the fairly recent LivePortrait model, generating deepfakes of my friends for some cheap laughs. The inevitable Elon Musk deepfake, picture by Debbie Rowe The emerging field of 2D avatar/portrait animation (being able to animate any still image, avoiding the need to render cumbersome 3D models that would struggle with small facial details) is a harbinger of things to come. In the best case, it will be ubiquitous on social med...