Questions about the use of CGI in this way, and about integrity of such performances, have been mulled over on social media too. The late Marlon Brando was CGI’d back into his role as Jor-El for Superman Returns in 2006 and more recently Peter Cushing was brought back to life to “reprise” his role as the character Moff Tarkin in the Star Wars spin off film Rogue One.Īnd, of course, there was the famous Galaxy chocolate advert featuring a digital 1950s Audrey Hepburn at her loveliest. But few people realise just how common this has been in the last twenty years or so. There have been many debates around the ethics of this kind of work for years now, particularly in the movies, where dead actors have been brought back to the screen and animated via a motion captured performance. MyHeritage’s declared intention is to allow users upload photos of deceased loved ones and see them in “action”. The program has a store of pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and it takes uploaded photographs and applies the one that works best for the photo in question. Deep Nostalgia is offered by the online genealogy website MyHeritage, and uses Artificial Intelligence licensed from D-ID to create the effect that a still photo is actually moving.īut Deep Nostalgia can take photos from any camera and seemingly bring them to life. I stumbled across the #deepnostalgia hashtag on Twitter this morning and was instantly curious, so went to take a look at what it was all about.

My heritage nostalgia online