"Would love to see anyone else's famous look-a-likes.  Are you having big success or just a hard time bringing these likenesses to life? "
3Dtest produced  some very realistic celebs - Trump, Clinton, Obama, Putin. But the more the 3D avatars resembled the real person the less recognisable they were. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdrFcZ9a8kQ]

It is odd, but it seems that cartoons of celebs are more easily identified than photos of celebs. Maybe this is how we remember people - as caricatures with exaggerated features where they differ from the mean of most faces that we see.every day.

On a completely different site (hell, we all have lots of interests) the reviewer (Michael Crawford) speaks to this point.  What he does when reviewing the "toys" (toys that cost hundreds of dollars but still) of celebrities talks about how hard it is to get someone's face right unless that face has some exaggerated features.  Which means some actors are easy but some (females in particular, who tend to fit a "pretty/beautiful" stereotype that is based mostly on symmetry and features staying well within the norm) are just impossible.

And I've spoken as well on one of the real issues -- getting the hair right.  If your actor is bald, or you can get a hair style which matches, you're about 75% of the way there.  It's SUCH an important "tell" to the process that with the limited amount of hair we currently have it's always going to be a problem.

That said, I've gotten some good likeness (and posted here): Hillary, Obama, Harvey Weinstein and Clinton, to name a few.  I also got really close to one of my best friends -- he was impressed -- as well as my cousin (who dropped his jaw saying it was *exactly* like him -- but he has a full beard and distinctive hair that was easy to match so, yes, ducks in a barrel).  I've shown all of these in another thread (or maybe it was early in this one.  Sigh).  But it's not easy and, in any case, it often ends up more as a tribute band than the real thing (and there's nothing wrong with that, either).

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Hi KT

Thanks for that
Until recently most prominent politicians were exclusively male. So  maybe the caricaturists have not yet gotten into their stride.

Incidentally, this side of the pond we say 'fish in a barrel'. Woiuldn't your ducks be considered a flight risk?

I think they say that here as well, Sean, but I always like to be different <g>.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

What ever happened to that guy (I forget his name) that was developing a hair creator that was supposed to make making hair easy and as good as DAZ hair??

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here's a character that I have been continually improving since CC1
I've modeled the character on my favourite female celebrity - Kylie Minogue
The scene & outfit is from one of her best concerts (in my opinion!) that I attended in Brisbane, Australia 1998.

The face and body totally created in CC1 and improved on in CC2 (I didn't use Crazy Talk to create the face)
I've modeled all of her dimensions to scale as much as possible, in order to recreate a reasonable likeness.
I also recreated the outfit as best as I could with my limited clothes making skills, and the stage
here's a character that I have been continually improving since CC1
I've modeled the character on my favourite female celebrity - Kylie Minogue
The scene & outfit is from one of her best concerts (in my opinion!) that I attended in Brisbane, Australia 1998.

The face and body totally created in CC1 and improved on in CC2 (I didn't use Crazy Talk to create the face)

Hope you can see the resemblance!

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Darren01 (9/4/2018)

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here's a character that I have been continually improving since CC1

WOW! Top shelf work here. I'm impressed!  ~V~

       Val RogueAnanda

Yes, very good!

Jeff



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