March 25, 2010
Aged to Perfection
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2010 Forgive us, please, for the iPhone emphasis this month, but we’ve been looking in Apple’s direction with the iPhone maxi—sorry, iPad—set to hit the streets any day now. One of the most fun locally produced apps for either device is Motion Portrait’s ¥350 HourFace, which basically turns your […]
By Metropolis
Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on March 2010
L to r: The author gets the HourFace treatment, along with Metropolis editors Steve Trautlein, Sarah Cortina and Yui Shapard
Forgive us, please, for the iPhone emphasis this month, but we’ve been looking in Apple’s direction with the iPhone maxi—sorry, iPad—set to hit the streets any day now. One of the most fun locally produced apps for either device is Motion Portrait’s ¥350 HourFace, which basically turns your nearest and dearest into zombies.
There isn’t much to the app, but the technology is impressive—just feed it a still photo of a face, and it spits out an interactive video of the subject that ages in front of your eyes to become a wrinkled, blinking oldster.
Sure, the end results all look pretty much the same (isn’t that the point?), but just try it on a kid if you really want to be freaked out.
