Last Updated: How To Animate Your Old Photos: MyHeritage's 'Deep Nostalgia' Feature Is Going Viral Last week, genealogy platform MyHeritage released a feature called 'Deep Nostalgia' that animates faces in still photos using video reenactment technology. Genealogy platform MyHeritage has released a feature called 'Deep Nostalgia' that animates faces in still photos using video reenactment technology. According to MyHeritage, the technology for animating the faces in photos was licensed from D-ID, a company that specializes in video reenactment using deep learning. Deep Nostalgia uses several pre-recorded driver videos prepared by MyHeritage, which direct the movements in the animation and consist of sequences of real human gestures. A preferred driver is automatically selected for each face based on its orientation, and then seamlessly applied to the photo. The result is a short, high-quality video animation of an individual face that can smile, blink, and move. To achieve optimal results, the photos are enhanced prior to animation using the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer, which brings blurry and low-resolution faces into focus and increases their resolution, according to MyHeritage website.