AGE-PROGRESSED & AGE-REGRESSED PORTRAITS & ANIMATIONS.
and WHAT A COUPLE'S BABY MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
by Dr. D'Lynn Waldron
These portraits do not predict the future, but only show what it might be in certain circumstances.
With modern cosmetic and medical intervention, some of the portraits are like the 'Picture of Dorian Gray', showing things the world will never see.
These portraits are digitally hand painted with a Wacom tablet in a computer paint program. There is no automated aging software used.
Dr. Waldron's digitally hand painted portraits and animations are used around the world in print and TV features and advertising campaigns.

CLICK TO SEE AN ANIMATION OF A MAN AGING FROM TWENTY TO NINETY


CLICK HERE TO SEE THE NY DAILY NEWS' WEB VERSION AT FULL RESOLUTION DailyNewsFullRes.html
Commissioned by People Magazine 2007 CLICK TO SEE HIGHER RES ORIGINAL DIGITAL PAINTING

ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN ANIMATION-CLICK TO SEE

Dr. Sanjay Gupta age-progressed for a CNN Special 'Chasing Life' on aging. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2007/chasing.life/

CLICK TO SEE TV RESOLUTION ANIMATION OF DR. GUPTA AGING- ARTWORK, ANIMATION AND MUSIC BY D'LYNN WALDRON
D'Lynn Waldron's digitally painted portraits of possible babies are published in features around the world and used on TV.
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Above: An imaginary portrait the baby that Steffi Graff and Andre Agassi might have, commissioned by German Sat 1 TV in 2000, which looked almost exactly like the actual baby born years later.
CLICK TO SEE THIS WOMAN AGING ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN ANIMATION

Original artwork illustrating aging with and without proper skin care. Commisioned by a cosmetics company for print and animated TV advertising worldwide.

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L- James 'Whitey' Bulger ~ Boston Irish Mobster wanted for multiple murders- Age progression done for a federal fugitive search.
R- Age progressed portraits showing a teen-ager's future with and without meth addiction. Commissioned by CBS/Paramount.
Dr. D’Lynn Waldron designed a proposal for a web site that would make fugitive searches effective anywhere in the world by presenting the clues visually as a treasure hunt for the bounty.
The government decided to stay with its traditional 'Jesse James Wanted' posters and not take advantage of the multi-media and interactive technology of the Internet

HOW I DO AGE PROGRESSION PORTRAITS by D'Lynn Waldron ©07
There is no software that will age-progress a photo in either a scientifically accurate or artistically realistic way.
I am a classically trained portrait artist who has studied the medical forensics of aging.
I have been a developer of computer technology for the arts since the 1984 Mac.
I use a high end Mac, 30-inch cinema displays and most important a Wacom pressure sensitive tablet with a digital stylus that is used like a traditional brush
I now prefer digital technology to conventional media for most artwork.
( I also use my computer to edit my videos of symphony orchestras using Final Cut Pro and that in finitely superior to a Moviola and opticals for effects)

I am a third-generation conventionally trained artist. My portraits were first published in a book when I was 22 in 1959.
During my travels to such then remote places as the Cambodian jungle, the Himalaya Mountains and the Congo River, I worked in fine line pen & ink and watercolor (examples of this work are on my Web site.) I originally gave away all my watercolor portraits to the subjects until The Chenya Lama signed his portrait and handed it back to me advising I must keep some of my artwork. He was right and that watercolor portrait is in the British edition of my book.
I later became principally a photographer and I was one of the first photographers with the worldwide agency, The Image Bank.

I began doing age-progressed portraits when an advertising agency asked if I could do such a thing for a cosmetics company, because I had already done some medical illustrations related to effects of aging on the skin.

In doing age progressed portraits, I begin with the bone structure and then build the muscles over it using highlight and shadow in much the same way I would build up volume with clay in sculpting. Then I do the eyes, skin and hair.

The appearance of aging is determined by many factors including:
Genetics ~ Lifestyle ~ Health ~ Personality ~ Environment ~ Gravity's cumulative effects

Whenever I can, I work from as much information as possible about the person, family and ancestors.
I try to show in the eyes and the set of the mouth, the personality and perhaps just bit of the soul.