talking-head-anime-demo

Why we included this project

Turning a single anime portrait into a moving, responsive character sounds like a trick, but this demo actually does it. Two tools come with the code: a manual poser that controls facial expressions and head angle with sliders, and a puppeteer that tracks a webcam feed so the character copies your head movements live. It is research code rather than polished software, so expect to bring a recent NVIDIA GPU and some patience installing PyTorch, dlib, and friends. The included Colab notebook runs the manual poser without local setup, which is a good way to see what the network can do before you dive in. The repo also links to the more capable version 2 of the same project.