Disney’s Face Re-aging Network, or FRAN, is ‘the first practical, fully automatic, and production-ready method for re-aging faces’ The industry standard for artificially aging performers — using 2D painting — ‘requires frame-by-frame manual work that can take days to accomplish,’ the researchers said. They used StyleGAN2, a program that creates artificial faces, to produce thousands of examples of people aged from 18 to 85. With that data, they were able to develop algorithms about how appearances typically alter over time — where wrinkles appear, for example, and how jaws begin to sag. The technology ‘provides artists with localized control freedom to direct and fine-tune re-age effect,’ the team said. . . .
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