A face does not age evenly. The forehead, the eyes, the cheeks, the jaw all change at different rates and in different ways. So de-aging a face evenly, one smoothing pass over everything, is exactly what gives you that waxy, fake look.

Hiroka Oizumi understood that. Watch what she did: she split the face into regions, forehead, eyes, mouth, nose, cheek, jaw, age spots, and pulled each one back on its own. That is why the skin still reads as skin.

That is the difference between copying a tutorial and thinking through a shot. One gets you a result. The other gets you a reel.

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