The StyleGAN anime face interpolations are solid: Machine Learning for Creativity and Design, NIPS 2017 Workshop, 2017. Towards the Automatic Anime Characters Creation with Generative Adversarial Networks. Yanghua Jin, Jiakai Zhang, Minjun Li, Yingtao Tian, Huachun Zhu, and Zhihao Fang. Sizigi Studios, a San Francisco game developer, opened WaifuLabs, a website that allows you to customize a GAN-generated female character and buy merchandise featuring her. Recently, Gwern, a freelance writer, released the largest corpus of anime images and also managed to train another GAN that generated anime characters that are eye-poppingly beautiful. In 2017, a team of dedicated researchers have successfully trained a generative adversarial network (GAN) to generate images of anime characters of very good quality. On the other hand, I have also been fascinated by recent advances in deep learning, especially when it comes to anime-related stuffs. According to this article by BBC, a new industry is being developed around them, with a company planning to invest millions of dollars. VTubers form a new cohort of entertainers, and they are gaining traction in Japan. Below is Shirakami Fubuki, one of my favorite VTubers: Perhaps the easiest way to get what they are is to see one in action. For the uninitiated, these are anime characters, acted and voiced by real people, that contribute video contents and/or do live streams in YouTube. In the past two years, I have been really into virtual YouTubers (VTubers). You can find the code for the above tools here. I can also transfer face movements from existing videos: This allows the character to mimic my face movements: I also connected the system to a face tracker. What it can do is shown in the video below: More specifically, the network takes as input an image of an anime character's face and a desired pose, and it outputs another image of the same character in the given pose.

Fascinated by virtual YouTubers, I put together a deep neural network system that makes becoming one much easier. I think that what I'm doing in this article is not different from the games.Ībstract. In fact, there are fan-made games created using official materials. They have a very lenient guideline for derivative works which I have interpreted that official artworks can be used in the pursuit of hobbies as long as they are not sold or used for commercial purposes.

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