A Breakdown of Deepfake Tom Cruise From TikTok

You might have heard about the viral Tom Cruise account on TikTok under the handle @deeptomcruise. The account posted DeepFake made by a team of Belgian visual effects artist Chris Ume and Tom Cruise impersonator Miles Fisher.

The content was fortunately harmless with the fake Cruise performing magic tricks, practicing golf skills, and more. The thing is that it was almost impossible to tell the videos are fake as the synthesized face looked too real. Want to know how the team managed to pull it off? 

Check out footage provided by the team showing how they mixed real-life footage and performance by the impersonator. What do you think about this experiment? Did we miss some other impressive Deepfake examples?