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By thebiz.movies - 6 Years Ago
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Anyone having success creating a CC character with a celebrity/famous likeness? I've been working for a couple of days on an early career Dustin Hoffman and I'm failing spectacularly (but still having some amount of fun). However, I think I did a pretty solid job with this JFK character. What do you think?
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?
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By Kelleytoons - 6 Years Ago
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I like to think of it as more a "tribute" than an actual likeness, the same way an impersonator (like Rich Little -- for all you youngsters, Google) could invoke a celebrity but you didn't for a moment believe he actually *was* that celebrity.
Here's a video I did for last Halloween that has three of my attempts -- I'll bet you can figure them out :> :
And here's a couple of my efforts to really do someone -- again, more "tributes" than actual "wow, that's really them!":
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By Kelleytoons - 6 Years Ago
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One more thing -- I do think a LOT of the likeness of any person is in their hair, which is where we have issues in iClone due to the lack of variety. So getting it "right" is more often than not a question of whether you happen to have the hair of someone you are trying to mimic.
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By raxel_67 - 6 Years Ago
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Kelleytoons (6/16/2018)
One more thing -- I do think a LOT of the likeness of any person is in their hair, which is where we have issues in iClone due to the lack of variety. So getting it "right" is more often than not a question of whether you happen to have the hair of someone you are trying to mimic.
i agree 1000%
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By Rogue Anime - 6 Years Ago
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I made this Prince avatar - he passed 3 days later. He is missed ~V~
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By Delerna - 6 Years Ago
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Oh yes. I very much miss Prince and you have done him reasonably well. I definitely see prince in your character
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By Delerna - 6 Years Ago
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Here are some of my attempts. I totally agree with Kellytoons especially with the point on the hair.
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By Rogue Anime - 6 Years Ago
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Kim Jong-Loon - there was NO 'getting the hair right' here!! ~V~
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By thebiz.movies - 6 Years Ago
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Good stuff!
I love those cheek wrinkles on the Duke Delerna. I've been trying to get those myself to no avail. Also trying to get better horizontal forehead wrinkles that don't affect the mesh. Alas...
Rogue, your Kim got me curious about seeing the character with an old G2 flattop hairstyle so I worked on it a bit this morning and came up with the one below. Not perfect but not bad though I think he's half Kim, half Hitchcock andc half Henry Kissinger...hehe. Two things that made me happy was CC's ability to make minor mesh modifications to the glasses (to get that bulging head on small glasses look that Kim has) and to the hair style making Kims head a bit thicker on top via the hair. The second picture below shows the modification to the hair to get the desired effect. I also widened that tie a bit. Hate the default skinny tie. Also amused that no matter how much you scale his head compared to the body, he still looks like the character which is to say the actual guy looks a lot like a caricature...but that's stating the obvious.
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By Rogue Anime - 6 Years Ago
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thebiz.movies (6/17/2018)
Rogue, your Kim got me curious about seeing the character with an old G2 flattop hairstyle so I worked on it a bit this morning and came up with the one below. Not perfect but not bad though I think he's half Kim, half Hitchcock andc half Henry Kissinger...hehe.
@Biz - WOW! Excellent! Thanks for that, really! I dig the whole thing. Plus, your description of my attempt was 2FN funny.
PS - No one under 60 knows who the hell Kissinger is, so that was revealing! lol I do a MEAN Kissinger impersonation if you ever come up with that one for shits and grins - would be hilarious  ~V~
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By SeanMac - 6 Years Ago
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"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.
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By Kelleytoons - 6 Years Ago
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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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By SeanMac - 6 Years Ago
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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?
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By Kelleytoons - 6 Years Ago
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I think they say that here as well, Sean, but I always like to be different <g>.
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By theschemer - 6 Years Ago
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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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By Darren01 - 6 Years Ago
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By Darren01 - 6 Years Ago
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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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By Rogue Anime - 6 Years Ago
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Darren01 (9/4/2018)
here's a character that I have been continually improving since CC1
WOW! Top shelf work here. I'm impressed! ~V~
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By jlittle - 6 Years Ago
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Yes, very good!
Jeff
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By Darren01 - 6 Years Ago
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thanks guys 
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By joncatso - 6 Years Ago
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Hi CC Family
I found the free 45 day demo version of zBrush to help change some of the mesh of a project I had started with Crazy Talk, it's not the easiest tool to get of the measure of but worth investing an hour on YouTube to understand. It's a great tool to create custom Morph sliders with, and this is what I've managed to do in terms of a David Bowie character who I'm using in an iClone 7 Sequence which I'll post in the next few days...
If anyone needs any help, I happy to. I'm not an artist or animator and have been doing this for just about a year in moments I can steal back from my young family
here's a render from iClone
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