Improving Tron Legacy using Deep Fakes

► Deepfakes are synthetic media in which a person in an existing image or video is replaced with someone else's likeness leveraging powerful techniques from machine learning and artificial intelligence.

► Created using DeepFaceLabs

#Deepfake

[FunnieApple]

Honestly the only scene that felt off was the beginning where he is supposed to be Jeff Bridges, i actually liked CLU looking fake within the Grid, it gave him an uncanny appearance that made him feel more like a villain.

[DandamanV]

To their credit, this makes me realise how impressive Tron Legacy's attempt was given that we're looking at 10 years of progress here.

[authorrayrogers]

The fact that we're able to do this now shows just how ahead of its time Tron: Legacy is. The system just had to catch up to the users.

[tommy]

The eye detail and the mouth movements make all the difference. The fact that the Deep Fake is so subtle and not jaw-dropping is a testament as to the original effect being "almost there".

[doubtfurious]

If you're open to suggestions, I'd be really curious to see what "Looper" would look like with young Bruce Willis deepfaked over JGL's prosthetic make up.

[richardhedderly]

One thing I take from these DFs is that they map to the existing image, so they are at the mercy of the quality of the facial movement. This is evident with the mouth movements for words with O in them. It's been an issue for a long time with facial animation in video games but when watching a movie on such a big screen, it's imperative that a full range of facial motion is captured before any work is done on it.

[Painless]

Brilliant work. I am a fan of this film but always felt that the face on CLU looked like a rubber mask of Jeff Bridges. I hope they do a 'special edition' with these kinds of edits for us fans!

[aureliolorenzo]

This is really really good. Disney should go ahead and put out an improved version of the movie deepfaking Clu.

[DutchTheHooligan]

Actually incredible, and much better than the original, obviously! Nice work. TL is in my top 3 and it's very nice to see such improvements.

[Zennk]

They should really just do this officially for a "Special Edition" or something, it really needs it.

[ViralKiller]

guy on YouTube improves ILM's work...truly amazing times we live in

[bytepopmusic]

If there's ever a 4k remaster using this technology with these kinds of results, I'd definitely buy it.

[TardesdeNeon]

Guys, it's a 2010 movie.
It is understood that the rejuvenation effects at that time were in the testing stages, I hope Disney will release a remastered version in the future.

[tormundgiantsbane]

Nice improvement. The CGI in this movie at the time was great. Of course 10 years later we can improve it, but don’t let this take away how visually stunning this movie was when it came out and for most parts still is.

[TheVidgamejunkie]

Gotta say, the Deepfake really improves on the skin lighting. They went way too soft on the original, making him look more plastic.

[Bearwooders]

Knowing that the original is 10 years of age, it’s actually pretty impressive.

[JohnTubeK]

Please do the whole movie, would gladly pay for this release. It’s one of my favorites.

[ovnimoss]

I kind of liked the weird, obviously CG look. It fit the "Copy of a human to a digital game" vibe with it's not-so-subtle editing.

[abcxyz]

Eyes are what denotes a CGI, this deep fake makes an spot on eyes, apart from the other details.

[kyleyuen]

This deep fake is insanely good and surprisingly Tron legacy holds up yet again 10 years later