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The deep end

A face that holds across eleven shots

The hardest thing in this medium, and the thing that separates a film from a slideshow.

What it costs
1,859 credits
Your time
1.3 hr
Rendering
55 min
You end up with
29 pieces

In this order

5 steps, and none of them is “have a think”.

  1. 01

    Build the person once, properly

    Front, three-quarter, profile, and one in the light the film is in. Four good references beat forty casual ones, and the one in the right light is the one that does the work.

    20 min of yours4 × a picture

    Open the room for this step
  2. 02

    Settle the consent before the first shot

    If the face belongs to a real person, the paperwork is a step in the lesson, not an afterthought. The room will not render a trained likeness without it, and that is deliberate.

    10 min of yoursnothing rendered

    Open the room for this step
  3. 03

    Shoot the eleven on the cheap lane first

    Every shot, quick lane, in order. You are not looking at quality here. You are looking for the two shots where the face drifts, which is a thing you can only see in sequence.

    25 min of yours11 × five seconds of video

    Open the room for this step
  4. 04

    Fix the drift by changing the shot, not the face

    A face drifts when the angle or the light has wandered outside what it was built from. Nine times in ten the fix is a different camera position, not a different likeness. Reshoots run on the good lane and have no quick setting, because a shot you have already paid once to discover is wrong is not where to economise.

    15 min of yours3 × five seconds of video

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  5. 05

    Run the keepers properly

    Now the good lane, all eleven, once. This is the expensive part of the lesson and it happens once, because everything that could have gone wrong already went wrong on the cheap lane.

    5 min of yours11 × five seconds of video

    Open the room for this step

The bill

How many times each plan pays for this.

One run of this lesson costs 1,859 credits. Divided into each plan’s monthly allowance, that is how many goes you get — which is the number worth knowing before you pick a tier, and the one nobody prints.

How many runs of A face that holds across eleven shots each plan’s monthly allowance covers.
PlanRuns a monthIn words
Look aroundSee whether it makes the thing you had in mind.0Your allowance will not cover one run. A top-up or a step up the plans will.
CreatorOne person, making things that go out under their own name.0Your allowance will not cover one run. A top-up or a step up the plans will.
StudioA small team shipping for clients, on a deadline.1Your allowance covers this once this month.
ScaleAn agency or a product with VODOO underneath it.4Your allowance covers this 4 times this month.
EnterpriseProcurement, a security review, and a number on an invoice.QuotedYour plan is quoted, so this is a conversation rather than a count.

Priced from a picture (one still, top quality), five seconds of video (quick lane), five seconds of video (the good lane) — the same published prices the pricing page quotes, added up rather than estimated.

After this

The rest of them.

A face that holds across eleven shots · VODOO AI