"Transformation" acts from British talent show

StarvingButStrong
Mon, 23 Dec 2024 00:08:55 +0000
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For a few days I’ve been seeing short clips, apparently from the British version of “X Got Talent” where a woman is transformed into something else, like a bird-woman or a tiger-woman or whatever. It looks to me impossible to explain with ‘normal’ magic tricks, such as stage magicians have used since forever.

My best guess is that what we’re seeing is AI computer art. As in, maybe the woman is onstage wearing a nude colored body suit, and there is a glass panel/screen between her and the audience/camera location, and somehow all the details are actually a video projected by a computer while the woman at most does a memorized routine of turning in place or waving her arms to synchronize her with the video. Or, for that matter, maybe she isn’t even there at all, and it’s just a projected video. Am I right?

If so, isn’t this stretching the limits of claiming this act is a display of talent at all? I mean, would they allow an act that consists of a lovely woman standing there lip synching while they play a recording made by some genuinely gifted singer? How about if one of those “isn’t this eight year old a humongous talent” when, again, she just lip synchs or fiddles her fingers on a piano or violin while they play music from some non-photogenic musician?

If I do this right, here’s a link to a sample .

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