Image: u/Easy_Finish_2467 on Reddit · A presenter stage scene from the animated talking-head demo
A talking presenter animated from a single image with local models
In one Claude Code cloud session, Claude Fable 5.2 downloaded SD 1.5, LivePortrait, a TTS model and Wav2Lip, ran them on CPU and wrote the JavaScript that animates a talking person from one image.
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- Reddit poster Easy_Finish_2467 Source ↗
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In one Claude Code cloud session, with about a dozen short prompts over a day, Claude Fable 5.2 downloaded SD 1.5, LivePortrait, a text-to-speech model and Wav2Lip, ran them on CPU, and animated talking presenters from one generated image each. LivePortrait made 65 poses of each face and JavaScript it wrote blends between them every frame, down to pupils, hair and breathing. Unable to watch video, it checked lip sync against the audio and ran optical flow on its own frames.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: Fable 5.2 animated a talking person from a single image by writing its own animation code around locReddit poster: Easy_Finish_2467Posted
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