talking-head-anime-2-demo

Why we included this project

Anime creators and VTuber hobbyists who want to see whether a single still illustration can drive a live, expressive face will find a working answer here. The repo ships two programs: a manual poser that adjusts a character's facial expression and head rotation through sliders, and a puppeteer tool that pipes facial motion captured by the iFacialMocap app on an iPhone's TrueDepth camera onto the same image. That second route is the more interesting one for people prototyping cheap virtual avatars, since it covers the full chain from blend-shape capture to rendered animation. Everything is Python 3 and PyTorch, and a Google Colab notebook lets you try the poser without a powerful Nvidia GPU on hand. Plan on a recent high-end card, supply your own model files from Dropbox, and treat it as a research-grade starting point rather than a finished product.