I want to make anonymous sign language videos without having to go through the effort of manually animating a cartoon. Likewise I don’t want to pay anything for equipment, or have to use proprietary software. I’d prefer not to use anything too difficult to set up, but if that’s how it has to be then I’ll resign myself to it.
So, what sort of software could I use where I could just input a pre-recorded video of myself and have the machine spit out a new video of a different person or character making the same movements? Any names, pros and cons? How do they capture fine movements of the fingers and face?
Linux Mint Xfce on a “gaming laptop” from a few years ago with an Nvidia GPU, by the way.
Posted at 5:30 AM (no sleep)
So, you’re not considering the most important identifying feature, your own body language.
If you’re okay with eventually it being public knowledge that you’re the one who did those videos then you can use something like comfyui to create poses out the video and then feed the pose data into a weeb slop drawer and get something pretty passable.
Comfy is proprietary I’m pretty sure. You’ll be building a workflow for video to character so start looking at huggingface for that. A lot of what you’ll be seeing there will be proprietary even though you can have at it for free.
It will be slow.