Baseball cards brought to life! Awesome (and creepy)!
 

So I read online about an app that can animate old photos...so of course my mind immediately went to "I wonder if I can animate baseball cards?"

Turns out, yes I can. And the results are interesting, funny, and honestly a little creepy.

Please add some of your own to this thread...there are MANY cards I would like to see animated. Unfortunately, it appears that the free version of the software (I used an app called My Heritage) only allows a few images. So I only got these three done. I was in the process of trying a t206 Wagner when I got the message I had to pay for more. :)

So, I present to you, a living version of some of my favorite cards: 1952 Bowman Mantle, 1935 Goudey Ruth (181), and 1989 Upper Deck Ken Griffey Jr.

Enjoy!

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Wow that is actually very realistic looking.

That really creeps me out

The craziest part is that the software just automatically does it using AI. All I did is upload a picture of each card, and it just automatically "humanizes" it. It's pretty fascinating technology.

John

I think the photos coming to life is awesome!
Reminds of the moving pics in Harry Potter.

Tony

Someone with a really clean cabinet card needs to make one.

Amazing. Next we'll be able to have conversations with them.

I'm pretty sure somebody is going to create a market to sell clips of these card images moving using blockchain and make a kajillion dollars...

You're probably right Garth. It's the next big thing to sell digital files as collectibles.

Any Horner image would be neat. Also a 52T Jackie or 53T Paige.

What are the cards that would offer the best results?

1976 Topps traded Oscar Gamble, 1976 Johnny Bench, 1948 Leaf Wagner...

This JPEG just sold at Christie's for $69.3 million

There are SO MANY cards I would like to see, I can't even list them.

1952 Topps Mantle (I bet that one might be weird because of the angle)
1953 Topps Mantle
1953 Topps Jackie
t206 Cobb
t206 Wagner
N162 Capp Anson
W517 Gehrig

I could go on, and on. Too bad I'm cheap...otherwise I would just purchase the app and keep making them :)

Where can I purchase my fractional shares of these?

As long as they use VChain or Tron, I’m good with that.:cool::cool:

Here are a couple more...t206 Cobb and 1976 Topps Oscar Gamble.

Enjoy!

https://i.imgur.com/paoFiy6.gif


https://i.imgur.com/FqzuwkW.gif

I am more of an analog than digital guy, but I have to say that is awesome. Would love to see T206 Johnson (Portrait), T206 Lajoie (Bat) and 1934 Goudey Gehrig Portrait ....

1952 Topps Jackie Robinson:

https://i.imgur.com/14GBz1x.gif

Well, there goes sleeping tonite!

Okay who will be the first to put together the "T206 Comes To Life" website with all 524 (or more if you include the proofs) ....

(Wow -- the '52 Topps Jackie is really cool).

That is pretty cool.

i heard today the buyer of this plans to issue tokens so that many other people can be coowners of this piece of art.

i feel like a dinosaur with all this imaginary asset stuff???

The app I'm using just asked me to subscribe again. So maybe the free pictures are a daily limit? I'll try again tomorrow.

cool!

That's awesome!

Oscar looks wasted...

John those are great

Great find, John!


https://i.imgur.com/AJ0xQVa.gif






https://i.imgur.com/oYbshCB.gif

https://twitter.com/weingartensvint/...208013324?s=21

https://twitter.com/weingartensvint/...814114312?s=21

Yes, you found the app! Those are great!

What was said to the player just before the animation.

Babe Ruth - Ok Babe, bases loaded. What I need you to do is bunt...
Mantle - Did you know you sort of look like Tom Brady?
Griffey- Key Jr! We signed you dad! wont that be fun?

https://myhr.tg/1KAalAJL


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Still creepy, but kinda cool.

https://myhr.tg/1gGl4sgu

https://myhr.tg/1KZeHmMh

https://myhr.tg/1aONV17j

Really cool. Wonder what it would do to an Old Judge.

I just did my N173 Ewing & Mascot and it's awesome. Unfortunately, it will only animate one face at a time, so you have to choose between Ewing and the mascot.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nost...9192781-500001

Here's my Acebo Chuck Connors.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nost...9192781-500004

Terrifying and fantastic at the same time. Here's a 54 Ernie Banks brought to life: https://myhr.tg/1v7G0loM

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Your cards sound like they would look great, but both your links got to the MyHeritage home page (at least when I click on them).

I was wondering the same thing... would love to see it with Radbourn flipping the bird.

Honus.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nost...9192781-500005

I'm not sure why mine are linking to the home page when others click on them. They are going right to my cards when I click them.

Okay, call us deranged, but does the AI programme "understand" only human faces, or would it work
on an animal face? Has anyone tried it on a pic of a dog or cat? We'd like to see our long-since-passed
four-footed buds animated. Maybe the AI would try to morph the image into something human,
which could put the creepy factor off the charts...

Cap Anson 1985 Mayo N300

https://i.imgur.com/tHml1MX.gif

1934 Goudey Lou Gerhig. This one looks a little "off" to me:

https://i.imgur.com/SgcMiIh.gif

And a couple modern for fun. 1986 Topps Traded Bo Jackson, and the infamous 1989 Fleer Billy Ripken:

https://i.imgur.com/YbcONLQ.gif

https://i.imgur.com/wECZ8Fg.gif

I know I would go running the opposite way if someone was looking at me this way.

Brian

My daughter would definitely label him a "creeper". :rolleyes:

No pets
 

I tried it with pictures of both my dog and of my daughter’s cat.
The app said no.
It actually said it couldn’t find any faces or something like that.

The app is actually a lineage/family tree focused app, but this feature is sorta short term cool. I’m not keeping the app after the free trial but it’s fun for now!

lol
 

lol....lol...:D:D:D:D

Brian, thanks for the info!

No problem...if it was just a plain old non-animated 1934 Goudey Gehrig I would instead embrace it with open arms.

Brian (lookin' for Lou's in all the wrong places)

Is it just me, or do all of these animated players look very confused and like they are thinking "uh, can somebody let me out of here?"

What a FF that is! ;)

Haha, yes...most of them look quite confused. Although I think Bo Jackson looks pretty confident in his!

A couple t206 cards. Eddie Plank and Walter Johnson (Portrait).

https://i.imgur.com/vPA4Trg.gif


https://i.imgur.com/PReIXCQ.gif

I can't see everything that has ben posted due to my work firewall, but has anyone done this card yet?

http://www.grayflannelsuit.net/blog/...bbard-card.jpg

That one would be cool IF they would show the whole image. Unfortunately they shrink them up to just the face area.

I don't think so. That's a great card, but the problem is that the software automatically zooms in to the face on the card. So I don't think you would even see the snake (or the Philly Fanatic).

This is too uncanny valley for me.

I agree that most of them are pretty weird. And that 1934 Goudey Gehrig haunts my dreams.

But I think the Bo Jackson and Jackie Robinson cards posted earlier actually turned out pretty cool.

I think the Plank turned out amazingly well. Much more realistic than the WaJo portrait.

Plank - "I got a per card deal, but haven't gotten a check yet"
Johnson- "that's why you always go for the up front money"

It's as if these photos are waking up after a VERY long slumber and are trying to re-orient themselves to the world. Learning to use their eyes and mouth again after just sleeping for however may decades.

Not Hubbard, but maybe Jake the Snake would do.

https://i.imgur.com/15RvX4F.gif