I agree with OP: having a demo video that's 90% pretty young ladies is a bad look.
I want to show this demo to people, but I'm honestly slightly embarrassed to do so because it's such an obvious example of the male gaze. It's kind of tacky, and it distracts from the extremely impressive technology that's being demonstrated.
More specifically, if you claim to be able to “animate anyone”, why wouldn’t you demonstrate a diverse set of characters? A mix of ages, genders, skin colors, body shapes, and abilities, a well as a mix of photos and various illustration styles.
This exactly. An in reply to GP -- I enjoy showing tech demos like this to my teenage boys and did also feel slightly embarrassed sending them this one.
At least it's the opportunity this evening for a conversation about it.
I'd love to see how this imagen works for some of the complex footwork or acrobatics videos that trend. Testing the limits with extreme poses would be quite interesting.
I want to show this demo to people, but I'm honestly slightly embarrassed to do so because it's such an obvious example of the male gaze. It's kind of tacky, and it distracts from the extremely impressive technology that's being demonstrated.