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See Dead Uncle Carlisle Move and Talk in This Blog Post

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My Heritage (myhertiage.com) has some tools to use on photos. I wrote a few blog posts a while ago where I showed what their tools could do. Here are links for them.

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They’ve added more tools recently, and I tried them out on a photo of my uncle, Carlisle Entzminger MARTIN who died in the 1977.  

Why did I use Uncle Carlisle? 

Well, he didn’t have any children that might be upset by seeing his move and hearing him ‘talk’.

The photo I choose is one taken of Uncle Carlisle when he was in the Navy. These tools work best with a clear photo showing the person’s face.

Here’s the cropped photo I made of the original.

Photo of a young sailor in uniform, taken around 1940.
Carlisle Entzminger Martin, my mother’s oldest brother (1915-1977)

Now let’s get to what the tools can do.

One of the new tools animates photos. And there are several animation styles to choose from. The basic tool creates a pretty good animation.

 

Basic animation offered by the tool

I also animated Uncle Carlisle’s photo in other styles. Some were ok. Some didn’t fit his personality, so they weren’t right. And a few were comical. Take a look at a select few of them.

This animation is called Approval. I don’t remember him approving of many things, though.
This one is called Smile. He wasn’t a smiley kind of guy, but I did see him smile sometimes. Some of the smiles fit. Some don’t.
This is one of the Dance animations. It made me laugh. I can’t imagine him ever moving like this.


The other new tool is called DeepStory.

With this tool, you write a first-person narrative that the photo will ‘read’ to you. It sounded cool, so I gave it a chance. Watch below.

My assessment of these tools

The animation tool is awesome. I also animated my grandmother, Florrie THOMAS MARTIN, and I cried when I watched it. It looked like how Grandma moved.  I will do a separate blog post with her animation tests in it and those of a few other deceased family members like my Heiser grandfather, Daniel W. HEISER.

The DeepStory tool is not one I would use again. There are a limited number of computer-generated voices to choose from, and none were close to Uncle Carlisle’s real voice. Also, the mouth movement wasn’t authentic enough for my liking.

What do you think about these animations and the DeepStory tool from what you’ve seen in this blogpost? Comment and let me know.

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  1. AndreA says

    July 31, 2022 at 5:36 pm

    Let’s be honest in regards to Uncle Carlisle!! How many times did you ever see him actually smile, grin or just respond with the glee in his eyes? You have 15 seconds to answer this question! Can you name the where he was when Pearl Harbor was attacked? Did the real Uncle Carl ever survive Pearl Harbor? Did anyone survive his driving to the Mtn. Cabin on the Rocky one-lane drive? Questions about Uncle Carl remain unanswered, even today!!!!!

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    • Nancy H. Vest says

      July 31, 2022 at 5:41 pm

      LOL. I may have seen him smile a few times but they were sly, sneaky smiles. And I never saw glee in his eyes, no. You are so right about unanswered questions about U.C. He was quite a character.

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