Live Portrait

Live Portrait is a web-based tool that turns a single static portrait photo into a lifelike animated video. You upload a clear face photo, then choose or upload a driving video that shows facial movements — head turns, expressions, speech. The tool extracts facial features from your photo and maps the motion from the driving video onto it, generating a smooth animation that preserves the original identity. It supports multiple styles including realistic, oil painting, sculpture, and 3D rendering, so you can animate everything from a selfie to a painted portrait.

The technology behind Live Portrait uses an implicit keypoint framework trained on about 69 million high-quality frames. It offers precise control over eye openness and lip positions through scalar inputs, letting you fine-tune expressions. The stitching and retargeting modules refine the output with minimal computational overhead — on an RTX 4090, it generates frames in about 12.8ms. The tool also handles cross-reenactment, where you can transfer motion from one person's video to another person's photo, even with large pose differences. The code and models are open-source on GitHub, and there's a free playground to try it without any setup.

Live Portrait is most useful for content creators who want to animate still images for videos, animators looking for a quick way to generate facial animations from reference footage, and AI researchers exploring portrait animation techniques. You can use it to create animated avatars, edit portrait videos with precise facial control, or generate engaging social media content. The free playground lets you test the core features, and the open-source code means developers can integrate it into their own projects.