Skye
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You know what I'm talking about: The perfect actress in the perfect scene. Perhaps it's a climatic battle. Or a desperate shootout. Either way, you've been looking forward to this moment the whole movie. Then, just as she's about to meet her untimely demise, the director cuts away at the last second, "sparing" the audience the horror of witnessing a female death on-screen.
A classic example of this is Kimberley Davies' "Agent Lock" in the 1999 movie Storm Catcher, one of my personal favorite scenes that simply end too quickly:
Well... with the power of AI, we can now visualize what these lost moments actually looked like. I've been experimenting with Nano Banana via Google Flow, using movie screenshots, Photoshop, and a lot of prompting to construct what I interpret as THE final moment of these poor girls. When fed enough reference material, Nano Banana does an amazing job at not only mimicking an actor's appearance, but also recreating details in the surrounding environment, and even matching the lighting style to make it look like it came straight from the movie.
You can see my recreation of Agent Lock's final moments below:
Some caveats: Google Flow does not allow you to upload images containing "prominent people" which is pretty effective at blocking photos of well-known celebrities and public figures. That means that many of the scenes I've tried to recreate with more popular actresses simply won't work. Of course, with Storm Catcher being 27 years old and Miss Davies being out of the public eye, this one managed to slip through the filters, but I'm afraid recreating characters from modern movies is too difficult to attempt, unless it's a background character or something.
Video generation is also rather hit-and-miss. Veo 3 does a poor job at keeping people motionless, so characters that are supposed to stay "dead" in a scene are... well, not. Therefore, I believe AI videos currently do not produce the quality level I expect.
Still, this has been a rather fun and eye-opening exercise. I'll add more to this thread as I finish others. But are there any characters within movies/TV shows that you think could benefit from receiving "their final moment"?
A classic example of this is Kimberley Davies' "Agent Lock" in the 1999 movie Storm Catcher, one of my personal favorite scenes that simply end too quickly:
Well... with the power of AI, we can now visualize what these lost moments actually looked like. I've been experimenting with Nano Banana via Google Flow, using movie screenshots, Photoshop, and a lot of prompting to construct what I interpret as THE final moment of these poor girls. When fed enough reference material, Nano Banana does an amazing job at not only mimicking an actor's appearance, but also recreating details in the surrounding environment, and even matching the lighting style to make it look like it came straight from the movie.
You can see my recreation of Agent Lock's final moments below:
Some caveats: Google Flow does not allow you to upload images containing "prominent people" which is pretty effective at blocking photos of well-known celebrities and public figures. That means that many of the scenes I've tried to recreate with more popular actresses simply won't work. Of course, with Storm Catcher being 27 years old and Miss Davies being out of the public eye, this one managed to slip through the filters, but I'm afraid recreating characters from modern movies is too difficult to attempt, unless it's a background character or something.
Video generation is also rather hit-and-miss. Veo 3 does a poor job at keeping people motionless, so characters that are supposed to stay "dead" in a scene are... well, not. Therefore, I believe AI videos currently do not produce the quality level I expect.
Still, this has been a rather fun and eye-opening exercise. I'll add more to this thread as I finish others. But are there any characters within movies/TV shows that you think could benefit from receiving "their final moment"?
