https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia Deep Nostalgia is a website with which one can animate a static photo. It reads the faces in the photo and makes the person in frame smile, blink and look around. It works on old black-and-white family photos as well as paintings, realistic or not, as long as the mechanism detects faces in them. The effect is very fascinating, with simple blinks and looking around the people appear to be thinking, and very much alive. The best angle of the portrait is if the person is straightly facing ahead, else the movements sometimes seems a little bit distorted. But overall the after-effect is very realistic and impressive, especially if used on paintings. It really does look like someone has leaked the spell to make moving portraits to the muggles. We can use the technique to make simple moving portraits.
Her Story is a detective game using video clips as hints. After watching a clip, the player needs to deduct the keywords to access other video collections and figure out what happened. For example, if the interviewee mentioned “Jack” in one of the monologue, searching “Jack” may lead to more videos involving the keyword “Jack”. Due to the randomness of the searching sequence, the videos tell the story in a broken, non-linear form, even when the story itself is linear. It adds on to the interactivity and mystery of the story, which we can try to simulate with multiple frames telling the story in a montage style.