Hedra
Hedra animates a single image into an expressive, lip-synced talking video driven by audio, used for avatars and character content.
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About Hedra
What it is
Hedra animates a still image into a talking character. You supply a face, whether a photograph, an illustration or something generated, along with an audio track or a script, and it produces video of that face speaking with matching lip movement and expression.
Why it's different
It will animate faces that are not photographs, which is what separates it from the corporate avatar tools: illustrated and stylised characters work, and that opens up uses those tools cannot serve. It is still firmly in uncanny territory for realistic human faces, head and body movement is limited, and clips are short enough that longer pieces have to be assembled from several. Animating a real person's face from a photograph is also an obvious way to cause harm, and needs their permission.
How people use it
Animated characters for explainers and shorts. Giving a voice to an illustrated mascot. Prototyping a scene before producing it properly. Music and art projects where the strangeness is the point. Keep clips brief and cut away often, because the longer a generated face is held on screen the more a viewer notices.
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