I don't speak Russian, but to understand what is going on in this video, you don't have to. It's amazing what can be done in post, but to be honest, I wasn't even aware the extent this could be done in video. You can see the "cloud" following her hair on the right, so I'm guessing they did some retouching on a still frame, and then motion-tracked those layers with her eyes. Perhaps? I don't know. It's pretty amazing stuff.

The lovely Julia Kuzmenko was good enough to translate the video for those of us who don't speak Russian:

Starting at 0:22 sec in that order:

- remove a hair across the pupil

- hard shadow on the nose

- pieces of lipstick on the lips

- shadow on the nose

- wrinkles on the forehead

- freckles

- undereye wrinkles/shadows

- fine lines on the upper eyelids

- uneven skin

- flyaway hair in motion

- empty and boring background

- more flyaway hairs

at 1:03 as she looks away:

- red vein in the eye

at 1:06

-Color correction

at 1:13

-Retouching

BEFORE:



AFTER:



Take a look at another one we posted a little while back. Man, this stuff is really quite impressive. Focus on the technique, if the idea of retouching doesn't jive with you. I'm just impressed with the level of skill involved here.

[Via Solstice Visuals]