Learning Timeline
Key Insights
Minimum VRAM Requirements
Fantasy Portrait is highly efficient and can run on computers with GPU specifications as low as 5GB VRAM.
Multi-Character Support
Unlike other tools, this AI features an 'expression attention' component that allows it to detect and track different character expressions within a single video simultaneously.
Image Type Versatility
This AI works not only for human faces but is also highly effective at realistically animating animal pictures, 3D drawings, and hand-drawn sketches.
Accurate Emotion Transfer
Fantasy Portrait is capable of capturing complex emotions from a reference video—such as anger or happiness—and accurately applying them to the target subject.
Step by Step
How to Run Fantasy Portrait Locally
- Visit the Fantasy Portrait homepage or GitHub repository provided by Alibaba.
- Click the 'Code' button at the top of the page to access the source files.
- Scroll down the GitHub page to find the documentation and Instructions section.
- Follow the listed installation steps to Download and Install the software on your computer.
- Prepare a static Portrait Image you want to animate, such as photos of people, animals, 3D models, or sketches.
- Prepare a Reference Video showing the facial expressions or movements you want to transfer.
- Run the AI model to process the reference video and automatically transfer those expressions to the static image using the Diffusion Transformer architecture.
- Save the AI-generated video.
