Lucasfilm Hires YouTuber Identified for Viral Luke Skywalker Deepfake
A most traditional Deepfake YouTuber who goes by the address “Shamook” has confirmed they’ve taken a job with Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light and Magic. The YouTuber went viral for constructing a, some shriek greater, rendition of a surprise cameo in The Mandalorian.
Spoilers for The Mandalorian season 2 beneath.
Shamook is most racy identified for constructing a vary of Deepfake videos on YouTube. As an instance, they’ve videos the do they recast distinct roles love replacing Tom Cruise with Brendan Fraser in The Mummy reboot, or ravishing-tuning existing effects love they did with the de-frail Luke Skywalker within the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian.
Indiewire has confirmed with Industrial Light and Magic that Shamook joined the crew there. Whereas their map became no longer disclosed, Industrial Light and Magic’s statement specifically cited the company’s growing pastime in machine studying and AI.
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“[ILM] is continually in search of gifted artists and have if truth be told employed the artist that goes by the get persona ‘Shamook’… All over the final quite rather a lot of years ILM has been investing in each and each machine studying and A.I. as a technique to originate compelling visible effects work and it’s been terrific to accept momentum constructing on this condo because the abilities advances,” an organization consultant said in a statement.
Shamook says that they’ve settled into their contemporary job and can likely proceed to post more videos on their YouTube, which are all somewhat spectacular. A highlight is a series they did the do they mix-and-match various Spider-Man actors the usage of Deepfake tech. So as an illustration in conjunction with Tobey Maguire to The Unbelievable Spider-Man, or Tom Holland into the Sam Raimi Spider-Man motion photos.
Compare out IGN’s evaluation of The Mandalorian season 2 finale for our suggestions on the Luke Skywalker cameo.