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AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by Pxtl »

erichocean wrote: post #37
MisterTea wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone. Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.

The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture). Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.

Actually while Bakshi was the first to make a movie that went all in on rotoscoping (particularly Fire and Ice where it was 100% rotoscoped while LOTR was a mixed bag) the first animated film to heavily leverage rotoscoping was Snow White.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by chillingeffect »

at first the result disappointed me (emotionally, not technically), but after a few minutes I went back to it and was struck by the feel the image brought out. It really reflected some of the wistfulness and sadness I feel with a tiny touch of optimism. I'm not well-versed in anime, but that does seem to be a little bit of the feel that I get from it. bravo.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by wodenokoto »

erichocean wrote: post #37
MisterTea wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone. Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.

The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture). Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.

There was a lot of rotoscoping going on in Disney’s Snowwhite

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by kroltan »

Great, now I can generate random cartoon portraits by combining this with https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

I do second the observation that this isn't nearly "Anime" style by any definition or sample of the style I've ever seen. I would expect to see these results in a GTA 5 loading screen.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by webmaven »

erichocean wrote: post #37
MisterTea wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone. Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.

The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director. Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture). Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.

> The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director.

Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results we're looking at with this service don't bear much stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though calling the Disney house style — or Bakshi's — 'anime' is still a stretch.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by labster »

villasv wrote: post #6
aliabd wrote: post #3

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You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...

Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch

I was looking forward to seeing if I was puni plush or shoujo style, instead I got this photoshop filter. Where is my spiky hair??11?
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