Creamy Over The Top Softness - How Was This Done - Leah Remini

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Paul F

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The look of Leah in her documentary series looks peculiar. Her face is so soft and without features; a porcelain doll look. I expect it is something she asks for. It looks so artificial, especially when compared with the shots of her in the Kevin James sitcom, where we see her wrinkles and age. I'm wondering if this is done in camera or with DaVinci Resolve.

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Havent seen the show but there are digital makeup plugins out there that can do that. If you push them too far you get results like what you described.
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I've noticed this. While I like and admire Ms. Remini, unfortunately I think she has visited the surgeon's office a few too many times and is not aging gracefully. There are several digital makeup plug-ins and you can even kind of overdue it with diffusion and glow filters. I watched an episode of the Kevin James (awful) new series and yes, she did not look flattering on it. I have only see previews of her Scientology show and yes, it is definitely the Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds commercial effect there.

I feel bad for female talent, their entire career, they have agents, publicists and studio execs needling and pressuring them to always look younger, and nature and gravity are merciless and then they do the surgery route but nobody gives them a bar for how much and how drastic. A few actresses have done very subtle and tasteful surgery and combined with their genetics, makes them look great well into their 70s. But then there are the Goldie Hawns and Melanie Griffiths who just went too far. It's sad.
 
I haven't seen the show, but it sounds like what I'd get if I went too far with the sliders on Magic Bullet Cosmo. Highly recommended plugin if it suits your work.
 
Cosmo is indeed a great plug-in. I somewhat preferred the earlier incarnation when it was part of Colorista--the grid overlay in the current one I find a little vague.

I'm also very impressed with the Face Refinement tool that was added in the latest Resolve update. The eyebag removal feature alone is near miraculous.
 
Why not just animate all actors/actresses? Think Running Man. Who needs real people or the real person if we can just overlay their scan onto a wire frame or onto another person. How far are we really from being able to do that economically?
 
Greg_E said:
Why not just animate all actors/actresses? Think Running Man. Who needs real people or the real person if we can just overlay their scan onto a wire frame or onto another person. How far are we really from being able to do that economically?
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I've been trying to find it for a few years now. The Digital Emily and Digital Ira projects at USC was supposedly capable of doing it in real time off a digital scan since ~ 2014.

http://ict.usc.edu/prototypes/digital-ira/

 
Rogue One, Ant Man, and Captain America: Civil War all showed how difficult it can be to do this. There's a scene in Blade Runner 2049 that does the best I've yet seen of this work, but I'm betting it took weeks if not months to achieve just a few seconds in the finished film.
 
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