Create Realistic AI Animations with LivePortrait in ComfyUI

In this tutorial, Future Thinker @Benji introduces LivePortrait in ComfyUI, an AI model that animates photos with realistic movements, similar to the magical moving pictures in Harry Potter. LivePortrait uses implicit keypoints to animate facial features like eyes, nose, and mouth based on real video references, allowing the photo to mimic the motions of the person in the video. The tutorial covers the installation and setup of LivePortrait custom nodes in ComfyUI, including downloading the safe tensors model and the InsightFace library. Benji demonstrates how to configure the LivePortrait custom node, showcasing different retargeting options for eyes and lips to achieve natural and detailed facial movements. The tutorial includes various examples of animated portraits, highlighting the impact of different settings on the animation quality. Benji emphasizes the potential of LivePortrait for creating AI animations with natural facial expressions, which could be useful for AI movies and character animations.