I enjoyed your work but I would LOVE to see you do the Nidd Hall Portrait of Anne Boleyn! Yes, I am on that kick atm! LOL. I truly believe that is her actual likeness and I believe that one would give us a better representation of her actual looks.
It feels so different. It is not like when you watch a movie and you see an actor that looks like the original person. You see this reconstruction and... it's that person itself, brought back to life for just a moment
@The Crow well do keep in mind that we are in a different century, things have changed. The standards of what we perceive as beautiful has changed dramatically throughout the last few thousand years. Not saying, but I do agree with you none of them are what today's society would perceive as beautiful.
@@weirdscience6820 I think Ann Boleyn has been captured here according to the portrait wonderfully. Ann Boleyn was not known for her beauty. And she doesn't look like man here. Infact young Elizabeth resembles little bit like Anne Boleyn
Memories are like time travel. The AI lands based on human experience. It's almost like humanity as a whole is now able to remember their past in full detail. As if anyone can access a memory not experienced by them but by the memory of another.
It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one in this world and that there thousands of people out there who yearn to see, hear, know historical figures from hundreds of years ago. Thanks for doing this ♥️
This is beyond incredible. I'm looking at people. Real people, that lived over 500 years ago. Moving and blinking. So so so close to touch but hundreds of years out of reach.
I can’t describe how almost relieving it is to see this people look like...people. Normal people. It makes me feel considerably less ugly, for one, but it’s comforting to know that for a very long time, we’ve all looked the same. We don’t change that much- and the reflection in the mirror is something completely normal and has been for hundreds of years. Current beauty standards make it easy to forget that.
I totally understand what you are saying. Our history is glorified in our depictions and in some ways almost fantasy like. So its crazy how you see em/her in real life. I think this is why we tend to forget who we are or where we come from. You have people who will say silly things like " hey i think i as born in the wrong time period" Yeah its all good talk till you get there. You realize people havent changed much either and in some ways they are where worse. Then when your in trouble, youll ask yourself where did all that magic and fantasy go? Just before removing your head, youll think this wasnt what i imagined. People are people no matter what time line. Black and white photos tend to do the same thing, they give off that mysterious past time of innocents, that somehow they where different even better. Turn that into color, and you will soon have those feeling of current world back in your mind. Its the same exact world you live in now. They dont look as friendly anymore. The mystique is gone. Unfortunately looking at those photos isnt so tantalizing anymore. Because you can relate now. Our photos i think where always meant to highlight the best of our reality. Provided we haven't killed ourselves. Im sure kids and people will look back at our photos of selfies and pictures, videos on social media and say that silly crap. " yo! I was born in the wrong time" Not knowing how bad shit has gotten recently. Its kinda depressing. Just thought id share in your observation.
no worries, they're uglier. there were no moisturizer, decent soap, and maybelline lipstick back then. And fact that they used to took a bath once every week or two....
If this makes you feel less ugly...keep in mind that the real people actually looked far worse! Artists of the time left out things like pitting scars from smallpox (Elizabeth I definitely had these!) and skin discoloration from toxic ingredients in makeup.
It feels so weird; they look like real people, i honestly can't believe they're dead. They look like someone you would pass by in your day to day life and never think about them twice.
Wow. This project, particularly Edward VI has really made me realise that these were actual people that existed, not just paintings and stories we learn about. He was really crowned at age 9 and if you look into his eyes he really is just an innocent child.
The subtlety of the animation makes them all look gentle, kind and wistful, even the ones who were known to be very tough rulers. Not a complaint, it's heartwarming.
They did a favor to the queen by showing how she would have looked if she haven't had smallpox. All that white powder were layers and layers of makeup attempting to cover her scars.
@@tyarad7156 That's where the phrase came from ironically, 'Don't judge a book, by it's cover." Folks were actually talking about books and people. Example: A book and person can look amazingly beautiful but the books story could be shit or the person could be freaking toxic. And most books or lives are just product of their times and situation they got stuck in. The truest nature of a person actually shows in how they handle chaos.
And maybe there's a reason. The surname Fitzroy didn't come in to being for nothing. As that urban philosopher Tupac Shakur once said "I get around" ;)
@@JamesRDavenport haha, yes he probably did "get around". The curious thing is he was infamous for his problems in that area and none of his legitimate children survived or produced a child of their own (if I remember correctly). Very curious indeed 😄
Only problem with this is the artists probably didn’t paint each monarch/person as they physically saw them. The monarchs/people probably requested to be painted a certain way or to have certain features not included in the portrait. Take for example Elizabeth 1 of England. She had small pox when she was younger and as a result she had massive “craters” on her face. Just a shame we will never be able to see what all of these people looked like for real without the coverups of craters etc. Still,a beautiful video demonstrating the power of technology and how it can be used to help remember our past as a species.
I bet in the future these renditions will be used in schools to teach students about history. History will be brought back to life in the classroom through AI. Amazing!
That's basically real life wasn't it? He couldn't exercise much due to some serious leg injury, so just became a fulltime glutton and alcoholic, who ended up obese and gross.
I found it funny how, despite the realism in these paintings, I never felt like I was able to imagine clearly how that person actually looked- unlike how in hyper realism, the way the person looks in the piece is pretty much identical to real life, so this actually surprised me once they were given a "human" form. However, I'd also like to see this done with more recent artworks of people who have photos of themselves, just to see how accurate this is.
Of course. This isn't just practiced in their time but also in Egyptian times ( I believe ) where they carve them with perfect physique when in reality they were a bit obese
I'm laughing at the "geniuses" who actually believe that this is how they looked like in reality. Those are just paintings. They aren't pictures. Genius look up paintings of composer Schumann and compare them with his photos. You can do the same with chopin. Can't you even tell that some of those paintings have unrealistically big eyes?
@@FriendlyCroock yes, the unrealistic big eyes and smooth egg faces of the rainaisance always looked very unnatural to me. They nearly looked as unrealistic as snapchat filters.
I loved this so much, especially since I am an English Tudor history freak. It brought tears to my eyes. Edward VI, God love him, the poor little soul.
I can not shake the _uncanny_ feeling that the souls of the departed are sucked back into this world, and expressing some joy in just being alive again.
"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy Bansky put this more eloquently: "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the second, a bit later on, when somebody mentions your name for the last time." This feels like it's quiet LITERALLY dragging these peoples second life on for ever and ever.
This is a little eerie, in a sense. It's as if, for a moment, they realize they're alive and they're being watched. They seem like they want to say something, but they realize they can only do so much at the time.
Mary Tudor looks like an adult Greta Thunberg. Given her nickname of Bloody Mary, I can't help but hear, "How dare you?!" just before she calls the guards to lop my head off. As always, these videos are utterly fascinating.
To everyone in the comments saying “but that’s probably not what they really looked like” No, we can’t really know what liberties the artist took, but at least we can make a *believable* 3D representation of the person. Having a 3D digital representation is a pretty nice thing if you’re say planning an exhibition. Yes, we all understand that portraits are not 100% accurate and therefore any representation based on them isn’t either. Though it should be pointed out that it’s likely they chose these particular paintings for good reason: they were all done from life, and during a time period when naturalism was in vogue. That means it’s these portraits are likely more accurate than some others. Also to those commenting about the makeup: yes, people know. Adding period appropriate makeup to 3D models is something museums frequently do already: this is just giving them a better face to do it with.
It's really annoying that people here pretend that people back then were all ugly and nobody naturally beautiful. Which is absurd. The point is, that some were pretty and some rather not, exactly like today. Like today some people look great without Photoshop, fillers in pictures since they're photogenic folks and natural beauties. So, just because some historical figures were depicted clearly prettier in portraits than they were in real, it doesn't mean that all were not naturally good-looking. Which means that in some cases the depicted individuals were indeed as pretty and handsome as in their portraits in real life. Hence, there was no need for the painters to pain them prettier than they were. Besides, what speaks for the realism of the portraits is the fact that you still find countless native Brits who strongly resemble these historical figures.
We must remember that movie stars seldom look like the person we see on screen. On the other hand, Gary Merrill, the husband of Bette Davis, and her co-star in All about Eve was very nearly the same. Somewhat shorter. Great voice. he came to a high school and read for an English class. Introduced to him in the hallway by the principal’s office. Casually dressed. Unpretentious. Did get to stand with others who get close to Jimmy Stewart. Very natural person. He was visiting a close frind in Fort Worth and came down town to meet the audience to one of his movies. He joked about his dyed air and make-up. A classmate who lived next door to his friend said he was always friendly but more formidable than he expected, like his friend also a high ranking Air Force officer. The strength he brings to the screen in his westerns was real.
I really like the Mona Lisa one because I feel like in the animated part it looks like she's trying not to smile, which is very much the vibe I get from the painting
Not even going to lie. I got emotional with some of the portraits. Watching their eyes and mouths move, looked like they had a second window. Awaken after being a sleep for long! 😩😩 Beautiful work!! ❤️❤️
It’s so weird to see them so realistically portrayed because I’m so used to just seeing them as paintings I forget they were once humans walking on this earth
People would be shocked to see realistic historical figures because we are too used to seeing paintings and stories of them we kinda feel like they’re fictional characters and somewhat unconsciously forgetting that they are real human just like everyone else except they were born long before you are. It’s interesting
Indeed, this was so moving - I felt almost a sense of reverence being able to look into their eyes made “human”. What a hauntingly beautiful creation...
@@DrYesorno exactly. Only difference between us and them is that 1)they lived quite some time ago and 2) they usually did something extraordinary. But other than that, normal people with normal likes and dislikes and flaws and stuff just like anybody else.
My passion since a young girl has been history and I have spent hours through the years looking at the paintings wondering what they looked like in real life, so bringing these historic figures back to life is so special to me. Yes, they will always be interpretations through a lense of the present and probably not 100% acurate, but they are still amazing and a real treat, so thank you very much😊 I hope to see Catherine de Roet - the third wife of John of Gaunt - "come to life" this way someday🙏🏻❤️
All of them were perfect except Mona Lisa I think. Because in the real painting she clearly have gingerish hair and very light brows. Light skin with a yellow tint. In reality she looks dark haired, fairly dark skinned, and face shaped changed a bit but rest is fine.
Wow ...... i wish ur idea turns into a reality one day ...... i mean it will surely be a reality ..... i just want this to happen within 50 yrs frm now
Or just time travel to the past and watch it ourselves without changing the past, maybe our future selves are inside those ufos? Just watching human civilization unfold? 😂😂😏
I would like to see this done to paintings of people currently alive, to see how much the AI interpretation looks like the real people, like Barack and Michelle Obama's portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.
I found this spellbinding. Seeing historical figures come to life sent a shiver down my spine. It felt like I was making eye contact with history. I could have watched this for hours. Amazing work.
Wow,,your work is so much closer to the paintings, and more believable, not like another artist who seems to really prettiest and romanticize the portraits he comes up with. These seem so much more real. Amazing!
This was fascinating! They all just look like ordinary everyday people when animated... Even king Henry VIII looks like one of ‘East Enders’ TV characters! 😄
Harry8 spoke Old English, Latin, German, Spanish and French. Different Languages were used for different things (everyday conversation, discussion of law and business, the language of courtship etc etc) There was no such 'fing' as a cockney accent. Language would developed into Estuary English and Received Pronounciation and if course Regional Dialects and Accents. The Royal Family speak RP.
Timestamps: 1:10 Henry VII 2:06 Henry VIII 2:53 Anne Boleyn 3:47 Edward VI 4:40 Mary Tudor 5:33 Princess Elizabeth I (Young) 6:26 Queen Elizabeth I (Middle Age) 7:21 Queen Elizabeth I (Old) 8:13 Mona Lisa 9:05 Rembrandt
Just imagine one day they'll be able to make full length animated features using the actual faces of Henry the 8th, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots, acting and portraying themselves. How exciting!
These are absolutely wonderful but...you will never be able to recreate the actual expressions these murderous royals had ! LOL these all have baby innocent expressions , and we will just never really know . But stupendous work woow!
That animation is fascinating -- thank you so much. Just a small warning for viewers -- it can also be a little troubling at times. One of my nephews used it on my deceased mother's photograph. I wasn't prepared for the bittersweet experience of her seeming to look back at me.
I’ve always thought when looking at old painting, “ why was everyone so ugly back then?” However, now that I look at them in hyper-realism, they’re actually not too different from how we look today..
@@saveUyghurs Don't state it as a fact though. It's your subjective opinion that 'most people in the world are ugly', on the contrary, I very rarely consider someone 'ugly'.
@DEEJMASTER 333 Obviously, that's why I put the quotation marks around ugly on purpose to make a point (so 'ugly') this is to indicate that I didn't seriously imply that.
Weird to see these painting and think of people I know now who look kinda like them. The connection reminds me that they were all real people... with thoughts... who existed...... I know. What a discovery. But it’s still hard to imagine than as anything but a painting.
Beautifully done and eerily realistic. That little smile made Henry VIII look strangely benevolent, almost as though he never had any heads chopped off at all!
I searched for this comment. I see some people saying watching this is a bit like time travel. Well it looks like Greta's going to do some real time travelling.
Other paintings remind some famous people too. This maybe because of sampling bias, which maybe created by feeding AI with famous people faces mostly. Hence the results shift to Putin, Geretha etc. In short: AI algorithms are not perfect, results are as good as how you feed the algorithm during the training phase.
This is absolutely fascinating. Do you think that those painted in the mid 1500’s actually have such small mouths or was that just the style of painting? Please do more, this is fantastic!!
They actually had normal mouths in the picture. That's what mouths look like when they are just sitting there doing nothing. But they get bigger when you talk or smile. Go see for yourself in the mirror.
I mean, it is quite common for people from that area of the world to have small lips. I think it may have been a combination of the style of painting at the time and a real life factor as well.
This is heart-stopping. It truly brings these people to life in a way that it makes the portraits so real, and you can see them for the people as they really looked when alive. Thank you SO much...please continue this wonderful work and show me more. I am speechless and SO interested in what you are doing. Thank you :)
Nathan Shipley this is amazing! Im stunned and gratified to watch this fantastic work! Doesn't it create an impression of humanity in these famous figures who we never really related to fully- well done!! Beautiful xx
This is awesome!! Edward really looked like his Grandfather Henry VII l. Tremendous resemblance between them. And Elizabeth looks a LOT like her mother.
@@RizalMuhammadrizal That's what I was thinking... It was odd. Maybe we're not used to that facial phenotype anymore so we only associate it with men now? Lol my dad was like "that's what they call a handsome woman" 💀😂😂
That is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. I actually found it quite emotional, especially Anne Boleyn. That I can look upon their faces 500 years after their death. Amazing.
It's kind of freaky to see these paintings in cgi, but now I can really see them as real, living people. You bring them all back to life and take them from romanticized paintings.
I wonder what it would be like to see the faces of three of my favorite composers, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, "come to life". The work done for this video is awesome!
The Rembrandt selfportait was more expressive than than the real-life recreation. A great portrait painter will capture more than just the image of a person.
I absolutely love what you did with the subtle animation!!! These historical figures posed for hours, so it's exactly like seeing what the painter was seeing while they were working on their portraits. Thanks for the warning to not freak out because I can understand if others may experience the Uncanny Valley effect. It does make them seem more alive.
The animation is so cool, the only thing about those animations is the blinking looks weird. But it always does, I’ve seen other realistic animations like this and the eyes always blink weird.
At some point of history, it was considered beautiful to have small thin lips. In the Mona Lisa's time it was considered beautiful to have huge foreheads, thus women would shave parts of their foreheads. Or to the Ancient Greeks, it was considered beautiful to have monobrows, so they would glue goat's hairs between their brows. Its funny how beauty standards change over time :)
It gets even better with Rembrandt. ING made a series of painting lessons (de Rembrandt Tutorials) a couple of years ago where they attempt to recreate what his voice and accent must have been like, and while it may still be a computer voice they did a really good job. Rembrandt came from around Leiden but his accent sounds more like West-Brabant and just like my family who are from the area. That means that the Hollandic accent developed later then and there was also huge influx from.what is now Brabant and Flanders at the time - thus influencing speech.
This feels so weird, having their eyes scan the room I'm in, seeing a small, sad smile creep up on their face. It makes me feel like these historical people are actually taking a glimpse into this foreign, modern world. Very weird, gave me chills. Loved it.
To look at the past in an image made real today makes their history seem more REAL and makes the present more significant... and on the tip of my tongue is "OH! So YOU are the one!"
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Thanks so much for featuring my work! 🙏🏻 This is great. These AI recreations have been fascinating to explore.
Thanks again!
Mr. Shipley please work on more of these. They are quite fascinating. It’s like stepping into a time machine.
Fascinating and very creative. Look forward to as many of these as you can produce. Very clever and well done.
Bravo! Fantastic work Nathan!
I enjoyed your work but I would LOVE to see you do the Nidd Hall Portrait of Anne Boleyn! Yes, I am on that kick atm! LOL. I truly believe that is her actual likeness and I believe that one would give us a better representation of her actual looks.
It feels so different. It is not like when you watch a movie and you see an actor that looks like the original person. You see this reconstruction and... it's that person itself, brought back to life for just a moment
@The Crow well do keep in mind that we are in a different century, things have changed. The standards of what we perceive as beautiful has changed dramatically throughout the last few thousand years. Not saying, but I do agree with you none of them are what today's society would perceive as beautiful.
Ann Boleyn doesn't look like the painted figure and looks like a man actually. A look alike would have a better resemblance, possibly with prosthetics
@@weirdscience6820 I think Ann Boleyn has been captured here according to the portrait wonderfully. Ann Boleyn was not known for her beauty. And she doesn't look like man here. Infact young Elizabeth resembles little bit like Anne Boleyn
@The Crow hahah they all look so similar. Watching this made me feel disgusted idk, it just creeped me out like HELL. Ahhh.
That’s what makes it terrifying realistic. I could literally see the person in the reconstruction, it’s eerily amazing!
For now this is the closest we are to time travel... And it's actually quite awesome
No I think the closest are Videogames...
I literally just commented this. Guess I will delete lol
Now I want to know how they sounded
Memories are like time travel. The AI lands based on human experience. It's almost like humanity as a whole is now able to remember their past in full detail. As if anyone can access a memory not experienced by them but by the memory of another.
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The expressions and the music go really well together. It's as if they've just woken up from a long sleep.
Especially when the animation starts and they blink continuously
@@emtee7138 and they just do these weird face motions after they wake up, lol
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It's so nice to know that I'm not the only one in this world and that there thousands of people out there who yearn to see, hear, know historical figures from hundreds of years ago. Thanks for doing this ♥️
This is beyond incredible. I'm looking at people. Real people, that lived over 500 years ago. Moving and blinking. So so so close to touch but hundreds of years out of reach.
it's a little bit spooky..
exactly what I thought
Eye twitching too, ahahh
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I can’t describe how almost relieving it is to see this people look like...people. Normal people. It makes me feel considerably less ugly, for one, but it’s comforting to know that for a very long time, we’ve all looked the same. We don’t change that much- and the reflection in the mirror is something completely normal and has been for hundreds of years. Current beauty standards make it easy to forget that.
I totally understand what you are saying. Our history is glorified in our depictions and in some ways almost fantasy like. So its crazy how you see em/her in real life. I think this is why we tend to forget who we are or where we come from.
You have people who will say silly things like " hey i think i as born in the wrong time period" Yeah its all good talk till you get there. You realize people havent changed much either and in some ways they are where worse. Then when your in trouble, youll ask yourself where did all that magic and fantasy go? Just before removing your head, youll think this wasnt what i imagined. People are people no matter what time line.
Black and white photos tend to do the same thing, they give off that mysterious past time of innocents, that somehow they where different even better. Turn that into color, and you will soon have those feeling of current world back in your mind. Its the same exact world you live in now. They dont look as friendly anymore. The mystique is gone. Unfortunately looking at those photos isnt so tantalizing anymore. Because you can relate now. Our photos i think where always meant to highlight the best of our reality.
Provided we haven't killed ourselves. Im sure kids and people will look back at our photos of selfies and pictures, videos on social media and say that silly crap. " yo! I was born in the wrong time" Not knowing how bad shit has gotten recently. Its kinda depressing.
Just thought id share in your observation.
no worries, they're uglier.
there were no moisturizer, decent soap, and maybelline lipstick back then. And fact that they used to took a bath once every week or two....
If this makes you feel less ugly...keep in mind that the real people actually looked far worse! Artists of the time left out things like pitting scars from smallpox (Elizabeth I definitely had these!) and skin discoloration from toxic ingredients in makeup.
i find these people more beautiful than todays ppl so idk how does this make you feel “less ugly”
@@Violalulu and they parents were most likely from the same family (cousins, brothers...) 😁
It feels so weird; they look like real people, i honestly can't believe they're dead. They look like someone you would pass by in your day to day life and never think about them twice.
Wow. This project, particularly Edward VI has really made me realise that these were actual people that existed, not just paintings and stories we learn about. He was really crowned at age 9 and if you look into his eyes he really is just an innocent child.
Edward looks very much like a real person, impressive job.
He must be 13 in this pic
He reminds me to George Russell (F1 driver)
@@StarsOfPleiades yup he would have looked like him on adulthood
@Aman Lool , some nobles would have been benevolent (some, that is)
The subtlety of the animation makes them all look gentle, kind and wistful, even the ones who were known to be very tough rulers. Not a complaint, it's heartwarming.
This is exactly why they wanted to get themselves painted. So their image can be forever remembered
It’s so weird to think that these historical figures looked like average everyday people but with fancy names
Some of em looked a bit inbred-
Most of them looked even worse than average people due to inbreeding, just look at these faces... they're ugly.
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They did a favor to the queen by showing how she would have looked if she haven't had smallpox. All that white powder were layers and layers of makeup attempting to cover her scars.
And teeth, since she also had bad teeth.
@@lucasfaircloth9557 I think she had no teeth at that point!
And it was lead.
What Queen?
@@alexshu1794 queen Elizabeth the first, the majority of the pictures here are of her.
*King Edward Being crowned at age 9*
In his mind: *help*
He looked like that "I be flossing" kid
poor little dude probably just wanted to play with his toys
Man, im 15 and I can't even handle the responsibility of doing all the chores. Imagine being responsible for an entire country at the age of 9 💀
@@mxphxsto8334 yep not fun, I'm a girl and I'd think the same if a little 9 year old girl is crowned queen... I would not do it ._.
He died at 15 :(
This has got to be one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Thank you both of you for this.
Really helps give connection to them as we study their stories. Every human is a walking library book.
Thats so deep. Wow.🤯
@@tyarad7156 That's where the phrase came from ironically, 'Don't judge a book, by it's cover." Folks were actually talking about books and people.
Example: A book and person can look amazingly beautiful but the books story could be shit or the person could be freaking toxic.
And most books or lives are just product of their times and situation they got stuck in. The truest nature of a person actually shows in how they handle chaos.
Omg! That's so...boring
@@TheBurninator50 yikes
Henry VIII? I know that man, he comes shopping at my store. In fact every third middle aged English man looks like that. 😂
And maybe there's a reason. The surname Fitzroy didn't come in to being for nothing. As that urban philosopher Tupac Shakur once said "I get around" ;)
@@JamesRDavenport haha, yes he probably did "get around". The curious thing is he was infamous for his problems in that area and none of his legitimate children survived or produced a child of their own (if I remember correctly). Very curious indeed 😄
He kinda looked like kne of my teachers
His dna might be all over england who knows.
Henry VIII looks like a cable guy you often see at Burger King.
Only problem with this is the artists probably didn’t paint each monarch/person as they physically saw them. The monarchs/people probably requested to be painted a certain way or to have certain features not included in the portrait. Take for example Elizabeth 1 of England. She had small pox when she was younger and as a result she had massive “craters” on her face. Just a shame we will never be able to see what all of these people looked like for real without the coverups of craters etc. Still,a beautiful video demonstrating the power of technology and how it can be used to help remember our past as a species.
This was also practiced in egyptian times, were they carve the pharaoh's with 'perfect' physique when in reality they are actually a bit obese 😁
@@misterminutes4504 pretty much whole world and still today people use filter
@@Anonymous-cm8jy Yah, it's just a bit weird knowing that filters were a thing in ancient times 😁
Cupid Sucks At Archery because all humans past and present thought the same
To be fair celebrities today are completely covered up too. Imperfections hidde
I bet in the future these renditions will be used in schools to teach students about history. History will be brought back to life in the classroom through AI. Amazing!
henry VIII looks like some guy i'd see buying up all the sausage rolls in greggs
For that quip alone you’d get the Tower. 🤣🤣👍
Treasonnnn!!!
He looks like a Bob
You could say that Henry eight all the sausage rolls.
AHAHAHAH
They should dissolve back into their painted selves at the end of each.
I was expecting that to happen for some reason
@dingus Macgee I think so too. :)
"No, I can't go back! NOOOO-'
@@maxalaintwo3578 like something out of The Twilight Zone.
Da Vinci opined on sfumato in painting: pull the detailed image out of the plane, then push it back into the atmosphere. (para)
Me: I wonder what mona lisa would look like
Mona lisa: *becomes Putin with hair*
Same 😂
Lol
😂😂
Same lol
Damn!🤣
Who else feels weird while watching this? Like they have come back alive then died again?
So haunting! All these people, with their own known histories, brought back to life!
Yes that's it "haunting" I couldn't come up with my reaction to these pictures.
Omg, you just articulated what I’ve been trying express!! It’s not only the realism, but the history behind the characters!
This is better than the skeletal facial reconstructions!
Henry VIII looks like some bloke called Phil that frequents the local pub and has had a few too many pies and pints! Such honest realistic work here.
That's basically real life wasn't it? He couldn't exercise much due to some serious leg injury, so just became a fulltime glutton and alcoholic, who ended up obese and gross.
the painters have to adjust some features that they don’t want to be added to their painting.
He looks like my sister's fiancé Steve who is exactly like that
He almost looks like a real Bottero... I'd like to see what it would do on Botteros, and Francis Bacon.
I am related to King Henry VIII. Not even lying. I am very... embarrassed about that fact.
I found it funny how, despite the realism in these paintings, I never felt like I was able to imagine clearly how that person actually looked- unlike how in hyper realism, the way the person looks in the piece is pretty much identical to real life, so this actually surprised me once they were given a "human" form. However, I'd also like to see this done with more recent artworks of people who have photos of themselves, just to see how accurate this is.
Literally everyone feels this way. You’re not unique or special.
@@VH1Fan I don’t think he/she claimed to be unique or special, so I don’t know what your comment is about
@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten thx... idk where that came from... 😅
@@tijgertjekonijnwordopgegeten it’s a stupid af comment, that’s what it’s about
@@MDubZ12 try not posting such idiotic statements next time
Imagine them like this, but a bit uglier. They even had face tune back in the day, where the artists had to draw them with less flaws.
Of course. This isn't just practiced in their time but also in Egyptian times ( I believe ) where they carve them with perfect physique when in reality they were a bit obese
Maybe actually a little good looking than this, the beauty standards were a little fucked up in the ages of some of these paintings.
I'm laughing at the "geniuses" who actually believe that this is how they looked like in reality.
Those are just paintings. They aren't pictures.
Genius look up paintings of composer Schumann and compare them with his photos. You can do the same with chopin.
Can't you even tell that some of those paintings have unrealistically big eyes?
@@FriendlyCroock yes, the unrealistic big eyes and smooth egg faces of the rainaisance always looked very unnatural to me. They nearly looked as unrealistic as snapchat filters.
That doesn’t make any difference. We’re still seeing the actual paintings brought to life. It’s all we have of them!
I loved this so much, especially since I am an English Tudor history freak. It brought tears to my eyes. Edward VI, God love him, the poor little soul.
I can not shake the _uncanny_ feeling that the souls of the departed are sucked back into this world, and expressing some joy in just being alive again.
oh! me too! that's so wonderful and strange...
"Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies,too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead?” ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy
Bansky put this more eloquently: "They say you die twice. Once when you stop breathing and the second, a bit later on, when somebody mentions your name for the last time."
This feels like it's quiet LITERALLY dragging these peoples second life on for ever and ever.
Get a grip folks!
@@kampfkarpfen6013 what?
@@kampfkarpfen6013 wym??
This is a little eerie, in a sense. It's as if, for a moment, they realize they're alive and they're being watched. They seem like they want to say something, but they realize they can only do so much at the time.
I mean most of them were Monarchs, they would obviously have been watched either way
You nailed it. It makes me kind of sad.
First time I saw them they freaked me out apart from young king Edward who is so sweet.
Damn. I really like your prespective. How unique.
Woww
You dont need AI to recreate Henry VIII, my old geography teacher, Mr. Bertulani, looked EXACTLY like him.
🤣🤣🤣
Need a proof 🤨
Every average American looks like him
Funnily enough, I too happen to know a guy who looks like Henry VIII.
Are you from brasil? Bertulani não me é estranho
Mary Tudor looks like an adult Greta Thunberg. Given her nickname of Bloody Mary, I can't help but hear, "How dare you?!" just before she calls the guards to lop my head off. As always, these videos are utterly fascinating.
I would have made her look stunningly beautiful! 😂🤭😂
jajaaa
I got a chill when she was brought to life, like an evil creepiness seemed to emanate from her eyes. 😶
Same I thought
To everyone in the comments saying “but that’s probably not what they really looked like”
No, we can’t really know what liberties the artist took, but at least we can make a *believable* 3D representation of the person. Having a 3D digital representation is a pretty nice thing if you’re say planning an exhibition. Yes, we all understand that portraits are not 100% accurate and therefore any representation based on them isn’t either. Though it should be pointed out that it’s likely they chose these particular paintings for good reason: they were all done from life, and during a time period when naturalism was in vogue. That means it’s these portraits are likely more accurate than some others.
Also to those commenting about the makeup: yes, people know. Adding period appropriate makeup to 3D models is something museums frequently do already: this is just giving them a better face to do it with.
It's really annoying that people here pretend that people back then were all ugly and nobody naturally beautiful. Which is absurd. The point is, that some were pretty and some rather not, exactly like today. Like today some people look great without Photoshop, fillers in pictures since they're photogenic folks and natural beauties. So, just because some historical figures were depicted clearly prettier in portraits than they were in real, it doesn't mean that all were not naturally good-looking. Which means that in some cases the depicted individuals were indeed as pretty and handsome as in their portraits in real life. Hence, there was no need for the painters to pain them prettier than they were. Besides, what speaks for the realism of the portraits is the fact that you still find countless native Brits who strongly resemble these historical figures.
THIS
We'll know what they really looked like when they're all resurrected.
Sorry but they look masculine
We must remember that movie stars seldom look like the person we see on screen. On the other hand, Gary Merrill, the husband of Bette Davis, and her co-star in All about Eve was very nearly the same. Somewhat shorter. Great voice. he came to a high school and read for an English class. Introduced to him in the hallway by the principal’s office. Casually dressed. Unpretentious. Did get to stand with others who get close to Jimmy Stewart. Very natural person. He was visiting a close frind in Fort Worth and came down town to meet the audience to one of his movies. He joked about his dyed air and make-up. A classmate who lived next door to his friend said he was always friendly but more formidable than he expected, like his friend also a high ranking Air Force officer. The strength he brings to the screen in his westerns was real.
why did the little smiles in the animations give me such a good sense of comfort
Its the background music
i keep smiling while watching this, hahah
It's natural for us humans to feel comfort and happiness when we see other's warm and gentle smile
Leonardo da Vinci predicted Vladimir Putin. Truly a man ahead of his time
Dude, like 30% of Russian men look like Putin.
Elizabeth is definitely Henry's daughter, though I will say that we don't know that that portrait *is* of Anne Boleyn
Exatamente
I really like the Mona Lisa one because I feel like in the animated part it looks like she's trying not to smile, which is very much the vibe I get from the painting
Mona Lisa was a guy
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Alternate title: muggle paintings entered Hogwarts
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Brilliant, the only criticism I can spot,is the eyes don't blink together,some look like they have a lazy eye
Oh just appreciate the work..I bet u can't do half this man has done
@@meera3222 ever heard of constructive criticism?
@@cezarfrange6982 ever heard of being cynical...?
@@meera3222 That would imply that all criticism is negative.
@@Mattie-Ai www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cynical#other-words
Not even going to lie. I got emotional with some of the portraits. Watching their eyes and mouths move, looked like they had a second window. Awaken after being a sleep for long! 😩😩 Beautiful work!! ❤️❤️
It’s so weird to see them so realistically portrayed because I’m so used to just seeing them as paintings I forget they were once humans walking on this earth
People would be shocked to see realistic historical figures because we are too used to seeing paintings and stories of them we kinda feel like they’re fictional characters and somewhat unconsciously forgetting that they are real human just like everyone else except they were born long before you are. It’s interesting
Indeed, this was so moving - I felt almost a sense of reverence being able to look into their eyes made “human”. What a hauntingly beautiful creation...
@@DrYesorno exactly. Only difference between us and them is that 1)they lived quite some time ago and 2) they usually did something extraordinary. But other than that, normal people with normal likes and dislikes and flaws and stuff just like anybody else.
My passion since a young girl has been history and I have spent hours through the years looking at the paintings wondering what they looked like in real life, so bringing these historic figures back to life is so special to me. Yes, they will always be interpretations through a lense of the present and probably not 100% acurate, but they are still amazing and a real treat, so thank you very much😊 I hope to see Catherine de Roet - the third wife of John of Gaunt - "come to life" this way someday🙏🏻❤️
Me too. So many are misrepresented in history .... I've always wanted to be a "fly on the wall" during the Tudor dynasty.
Yep I wanted to know how they really looked like
Same for me! This video was a gift! HVII, HVIII and Edward VI took my breath away!
this made me realize i’ve never really imagined people from paintings in real life... and it’s scary
True. How we tend to not see them as humans it's pretty weird
All of them were perfect except Mona Lisa I think. Because in the real painting she clearly have gingerish hair and very light brows. Light skin with a yellow tint. In reality she looks dark haired, fairly dark skinned, and face shaped changed a bit but rest is fine.
I can't wait till they use this technology to make CGI historical movies
Wow ...... i wish ur idea turns into a reality one day ...... i mean it will surely be a reality ..... i just want this to happen within 50 yrs frm now
@GeorgeC Totonjie yea exactly 😂 can’t wait
Or just time travel to the past and watch it ourselves without changing the past, maybe our future selves are inside those ufos? Just watching human civilization unfold? 😂😂😏
and crossovers
That's insane! I didn't even think about it 👏🏼👏🏼
I loved the King Edward VI one. He really looked like a normal boy.
The dead cannot speak but the living can interpret the pictures. This is so wonderful to watch, we can all draw our own conclusions. 👌🏼
King VII was more of a "sickly" thin figure.... BUT... I absolutely ENJOYED this!...
@MaGuffintop
Yes.... exactly...
Seeing Mona Lisa as a person I realised that she has shocking similarities with Putin
I knew she reminded me of someone! Spot on lol
HAHAHHAA spot on!
Definitely, she looks like Putin discovered cross-dressing ^^
I knew it long beforeeeeee.I thought I was the only one who noticed it
Stop 😂😂
I would like to see this done to paintings of people currently alive, to see how much the AI interpretation looks like the real people, like Barack and Michelle Obama's portraits in the National Portrait Gallery.
That would be so interesting
Interesting idea, I'd like to see that too
Yo that's a good idea! I'd like to see that too
Maybe that's how the algorithm was conceived though?
@@Introvertedpoet it would not be made by people but by the AI like these pictures.
I found this spellbinding. Seeing historical figures come to life sent a shiver down my spine. It felt like I was making eye contact with history. I could have watched this for hours. Amazing work.
Wow, with the blinking and head moment this has definitely crossed the uncanny valley line! Incredible work to both of you!
The Mona Lisa was the best. Most likely because Leonardo was such a master to capture the real person.
It's a tie between Mona Lisa and Rembrandt. He was also a master at capturing his subject's soul, including his own
Then she look like putin (mona lisa) in this video.
Maybe the eye is similar.
Well, as Leonardo painted the woman almost for four decades it can be assumed that she was rather fictional than real.
Hers was the one I’d much rather see as just a painting.
@@robertpearson8798 True, because it was Leo's work that made Mona Lisa a masterpiece
Everybody gangsta' until Bloody Mary comes back to life
And she looks like a middle aged greta thunberg😂😂😂
I thought she was going to order more heretics to be executed.
@Aesthetic Stars Oh god... your poor poor grades ;-;
More like a man
bloody mary actually looked pretty innocent lol
Modern/recreated King Henry Viii looks like someone you'd pass on a highway driving a black pickup truck and drinking busch light
💀💀💀💀👏👏
And with an oily sandwich on the other hand
@Cel2Savage proper Welsh lad
oh God, he's Trump.
Be careful. You'll lose your head if the king hears you talking like that.
Wow,,your work is so much closer to the paintings, and more believable, not like another artist who seems to really prettiest and romanticize the portraits he comes up with.
These seem so much more real.
Amazing!
"Please don't freak out"
Those fluttering eyelids and parted lips are going to forever haunt my sleep...
Yep, the eyes are a slight bit creepy for me!
I thought I was the only one creeped out
Yup😌
I love it
This was fascinating! They all just look like ordinary everyday people when animated... Even king Henry VIII looks like one of ‘East Enders’ TV characters! 😄
Yeah, I pictured him with a London Accent when I saw him animated.
Phil Mitchelll.
Well the learned data were based from ordinary everyday people so
@@TT-rz5td That’s right! Phil Mitchell! 🤣👍
Harry8 spoke Old English, Latin, German, Spanish and French. Different Languages were used for different things (everyday conversation, discussion of law and business, the language of courtship etc etc) There was no such 'fing' as a cockney accent. Language would developed into Estuary English and Received Pronounciation and if course Regional Dialects and Accents. The Royal Family speak RP.
Timestamps:
1:10 Henry VII
2:06 Henry VIII
2:53 Anne Boleyn
3:47 Edward VI
4:40 Mary Tudor
5:33 Princess Elizabeth I (Young)
6:26 Queen Elizabeth I (Middle Age)
7:21 Queen Elizabeth I (Old)
8:13 Mona Lisa
9:05 Rembrandt
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Truly am emotional experience watching these presentations. I feel as if I'm peeking into a time machine.
This is both fascinating and horrifying at the same time
Just imagine one day they'll be able to make full length animated features using the actual faces of Henry the 8th, Anne Boleyn, Queen Elizabeth l and Mary Queen of Scots, acting and portraying themselves. How exciting!
Perhaps not in my time but very likely before my son dies or definitely before my grandson's end.
These are absolutely wonderful but...you will never be able to recreate the actual expressions these murderous royals had ! LOL these all have baby innocent expressions , and we will just never really know . But stupendous work woow!
One more job AI will take from man. Slow clap for creating our own demise
It's not Mary Queen of Scots it's Mary 1 Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon
What software are you using for the subtle animation ?
Truly fascinating. It is the experience of looking at these people as they would have appeared at the time.
But, it’s so weird and why don’t they recreate me too.
That animation is fascinating -- thank you so much. Just a small warning for viewers -- it can also be a little troubling at times. One of my nephews used it on my deceased mother's photograph. I wasn't prepared for the bittersweet experience of her seeming to look back at me.
I’ve always thought when looking at old painting, “ why was everyone so ugly back then?” However, now that I look at them in hyper-realism, they’re actually not too different from how we look today..
Ya, most people in the world are ugly. Not like in the movies or magazines where only rare beauties are all brought together
@@saveUyghurs Don't state it as a fact though. It's your subjective opinion that 'most people in the world are ugly', on the contrary, I very rarely consider someone 'ugly'.
Eh. You can tell most of these historical figures had genetic disorders most likely from inbreeding. Some looked “okay”. Many didn’t.
@DEEJMASTER 333 Obviously, that's why I put the quotation marks around ugly on purpose to make a point (so 'ugly') this is to indicate that I didn't seriously imply that.
@DEEJMASTER 333 using a polite word doesn't change the fact that they're ugly
Weird to see these painting and think of people I know now who look kinda like them. The connection reminds me that they were all real people... with thoughts... who existed......
I know. What a discovery. But it’s still hard to imagine than as anything but a painting.
same
I know a guy who looks a lot like Henry VIII! I could never tell him that, though.
Beautifully done and eerily realistic. That little smile made Henry VIII look strangely benevolent, almost as though he never had any heads chopped off at all!
Absolutely the most amazing thing I have EVER seen !!! You really have brought them back to life !!!!
WHY DOES MARY TUDOR LOOK LIKE GRETA THUNBERG WHEN SHE'S OLDER
I searched for this comment. I see some people saying watching this is a bit like time travel. Well it looks like Greta's going to do some real time travelling.
Yeah I see it too!
Other paintings remind some famous people too. This maybe because of sampling bias, which maybe created by feeding AI with famous people faces mostly. Hence the results shift to Putin, Geretha etc.
In short: AI algorithms are not perfect, results are as good as how you feed the algorithm during the training phase.
Lol yes, that girl have a man face xD
Finally a comment that i wanted to see
This is absolutely fascinating. Do you think that those painted in the mid 1500’s actually have such small mouths or was that just the style of painting? Please do more, this is fantastic!!
When you look at people closely you realize that we still have '' small mouth '' or lips aha
Most did not have such small mouthes, but since small mouths and lips were the desired look at the time, they would be often painted as such
They actually had normal mouths in the picture. That's what mouths look like when they are just sitting there doing nothing. But they get bigger when you talk or smile. Go see for yourself in the mirror.
@@cookiediangelo8511 nope still big
I mean, it is quite common for people from that area of the world to have small lips. I think it may have been a combination of the style of painting at the time and a real life factor as well.
they say, time travel is impossible. but using something like this to recreate historical moments would be awesome
They all look like they are confused but they also have a kind and gentle semblance
This is heart-stopping. It truly brings these people to life in a way that it makes the portraits so real, and you can see them for the people as they really looked when alive. Thank you SO much...please continue this wonderful work and show me more. I am speechless and SO interested in what you are doing. Thank you :)
Thank you so much...
True
tears to my eyes to see historical people "alive" today.
Oh come on.
Same
Music adds to the feel too.
Music adds to the feel too.
This is just the begining, soon we'll hang out with them in their palace in VR.
Nathan Shipley this is amazing! Im stunned and gratified to watch this fantastic work! Doesn't it create an impression of humanity in these famous figures who we never really related to fully- well done!! Beautiful xx
If this technology develops more we will not need actors in movies.
Might be an improvement. Most actors today aren't any good anyway.
You could still use actors for the movement, facial expressions capture and interpretation as a whole and then apply such work on top. ;)
Good thing
Some believe they are already doing this. You could be looking at a clone or an AI at any time and won't know the difference.
You still need voice actors tho.
It’s like the “harshness” of the painting is brought to a softer version .... so amazing
Apart from the weird blinking, this is brilliant. These images should be in all history books from now on.
I agree the blinking is not so good, maybe too often or not fast enough so they the blinks are emphasised instead of being almost insignificant.
This is awesome!! Edward really looked like his Grandfather Henry VII l. Tremendous resemblance between them. And Elizabeth looks a LOT like her mother.
I like how mary tudor, whose painting looked the most wonky, became the most realistic animated face.
she looks like a man
@@RizalMuhammadrizal no joke, she does 😂
She looks like Greta Thunberg when she hits 25 years
@@RizalMuhammadrizal That's what I was thinking... It was odd. Maybe we're not used to that facial phenotype anymore so we only associate it with men now?
Lol my dad was like "that's what they call a handsome woman" 💀😂😂
They probably made those exact facial expressions when they were being painted
That is one of the most incredible things I have ever seen. I actually found it quite emotional, especially Anne Boleyn. That I can look upon their faces 500 years after their death. Amazing.
To see them come 'alive' as they might have looked 'today' is very impressive work. Such are your most interesting video's, in my opinion.
Thank you very much!
That’s amazing. You can see that Henry the 7 and 8 and James and Mary and Elizabeth all have the same eyes and smile
Muglife app
Well they are related!😁
It's kind of freaky to see these paintings in cgi, but now I can really see them as real, living people. You bring them all back to life and take them from romanticized paintings.
Yo this is the closest we've ever gotten to the portraits in hogwarts.
I like to pretend that Instagram boomerang is a Hogwarts portrait
I can't wait till they start talking
Heck yes!
Yeah!!
Carol, oh how funny
Seeing this you realize how good da vinci was ....the AI found it so much easy to bring his work to life ...because the life was already there
Kwasiasem nkoaa
I wonder what it would be like to see the faces of three of my favorite composers, Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin, "come to life". The work done for this video is awesome!
Thank you!...
@@MysteryScoop Farinelli
The Rembrandt selfportait was more expressive than than the real-life recreation. A great portrait painter will capture more than just the image of a person.
Ooh sorry I see what you mean yes definitely and probably Mary Tudor the most realistic
This just literally looks like they came from the past to say Hi and leave afterwards....
Dude that's magically sad...
I love your imagination-
When you stare too long at a painting and you start to imagining that they are moving:
Also - Holy SHIT this is AMAZING!
I absolutely love what you did with the subtle animation!!! These historical figures posed for hours, so it's exactly like seeing what the painter was seeing while they were working on their portraits.
Thanks for the warning to not freak out because I can understand if others may experience the Uncanny Valley effect. It does make them seem more alive.
Thanks a ton!
The animation is so cool, the only thing about those animations is the blinking looks weird. But it always does, I’ve seen other realistic animations like this and the eyes always blink weird.
They should do this at the museums where the paintings are held
It's actually quite possible that it is displayed somewhere.
I'm scared and amazed at this at the same time!!!! This is great work!!!
I finally understand what makes old painting seem "off" to me: their mouths are too small.
People now are just obsessed with big lips/ fillers. Lots of white people naturally have smaller lips, it's beauty standards that have changed
At some point of history, it was considered beautiful to have small thin lips. In the Mona Lisa's time it was considered beautiful to have huge foreheads, thus women would shave parts of their foreheads. Or to the Ancient Greeks, it was considered beautiful to have monobrows, so they would glue goat's hairs between their brows. Its funny how beauty standards change over time :)
@@valrose6083 yep, that’s why we should never morph into the trends. It’s just someone’s random opinion of beauty.
@@klickingkayasmr7585 totally agree 👍 😊
@@valrose6083 Apparently Georgian women glued stars and moons on their faces, made of (wait for it) mouse skin.
I’m particularly stunned by how hyperrealistic Rembrandt is when in 3D! He looks just like a real person!
Except.... why didn't they leave his mustache !
It gets even better with Rembrandt. ING made a series of painting lessons (de Rembrandt Tutorials) a couple of years ago where they attempt to recreate what his voice and accent must have been like, and while it may still be a computer voice they did a really good job.
Rembrandt came from around Leiden but his accent sounds more like West-Brabant and just like my family who are from the area. That means that the Hollandic accent developed later then and there was also huge influx from.what is now Brabant and Flanders at the time - thus influencing speech.
That is because his paintings were hyperralistic for their time period. He captured the soul with his paints and brushes.
Do you think Actor Michael Sheen would play a good Rembrant when he gets older?
This feels so weird, having their eyes scan the room I'm in, seeing a small, sad smile creep up on their face. It makes me feel like these historical people are actually taking a glimpse into this foreign, modern world.
Very weird, gave me chills. Loved it.
Ye man ik ik what you mean it's weird but cool
sme feeling here
That was such fricken Awesomeness! I had always been curious what they would have looked like in real life! I thank you for posting this experience!
To look at the past in an image made real today makes their history seem more REAL and makes the present more significant... and on the tip of my tongue is "OH! So YOU are the one!"