More Imaginary Politicians

[firstfrost]

So, I took several people's suggestions for "a more random politician" or "someone we won't know what they look like already", and threw some more faces at him.

I still can't predict well which faces will clash horribly. Substantial differences in angle can blend out, as can facial shape - the guinea pigs in my morphman demonstration have very different shape, and for all that this one combines someone looking forward and someone looking over their shoulder, the face itself isn't bad. But of the five below, all picked to be basically the same straight-on shot, three look (to me) like plausible people, one looks a little off, and one looks like a morphing accident gone horribly awry, and I have no idea why.

I'm not sure this is still an Experiment, so much as a Messing Around. But it did teach me how to make just the face morph, and keep clothes and background from just one image, which makes for a much tidier picture than many of my previous examples. (Short answer: you have to physically transform the "background" image, so that it lines up with your merged image, but you don't transparentize it.)

Comments

#3

[twe.livejournal.com]

I like #3 best. While being brighter & in the center makes it really catch my eye, I picked it out as the friendliest just going through the images one by one on your morphman page.

Second choice is number 2.

Re: #3

[desireearmfeldt]

The bright/dark thing is really alarming. In both sets, the light contrast between one picture and the next was so pronounced I noticed it consciously rather than subconsciously--but I *still* instinctively liked the lighter pix better and couldn't really squash that response completely, even having identified it. :)