What if you could tell stories with characters you sketched, painted, or created with Midjourney? Animating them is difficult and complex, even for professional animators. Now with Puppetry, anyone can animate using just their iPhone and their face 📲.
During Christmas break, Ben tinkered with using AI to animate faces. He decided to animate his grandfather's old photo and found a way to do it in a way that felt real and touching.
After that, we ventured into the field of animation, mainly focusing on facial animation. We found out that it's a time-consuming and complicated task. With Puppetry, we wanted to help creators to express their stories in a more compelling and easy way.
As we continued our journey, we learned about face animation for games, which we found out was one of the hardest jobs in the industry. We added features specifically for game animators, like rendering video frame by frame, slow motion, and frame rate and resolution improvements, available for our Pro & API users and business customers.
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Check out Tyronne's work. He is one of our most prolific users, and his short skits he's created with Puppetry are hilarious! -- https://www.instagram.com/friend...
About Puppetry on Product Hunt
“Animate faces using your own face”
Puppetry launched on Product Hunt on June 21st, 2023 and earned 89 upvotes and 18 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. What if you could tell stories with characters you sketched, painted, or created with Midjourney? Animating them is difficult and complex, even for professional animators. Now with Puppetry, anyone can animate using just their iPhone and their face 📲.
On the analytics side, Puppetry competes within Design Tools, Animation and Video — topics that collectively have 263.8k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Puppetry performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Puppetry?
Puppetry was hunted by Saravana Rathinam. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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