{"id":13714,"date":"2020-10-28T07:52:34","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=13714"},"modified":"2020-10-27T15:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T22:53:06","slug":"pixar-characters-get-reverse-toonified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/28\/pixar-characters-get-reverse-toonified\/","title":{"rendered":"Pixar characters get &#8220;reverse toonified&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Enjoy some mouthwatering Uncanny Valley Ranch:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Using an AI-based framework called&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/eladrich.github.io\/pixel2style2pixel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pixel2Style2Pixel<\/a>&nbsp;and searching for faces in&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/NVlabs\/ffhq-dataset\" target=\"_blank\">a dataset harvested from Flickr<\/a>, Nathan Shipley&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CitizenPlain\/status\/1316760510709338112\" target=\"_blank\">made some more photorealistic faces for Pixar characters<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13718\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-03.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-03-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-03-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Kottke <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/20\/10\/reverse-toonification-of-pixar-characters\">goes on to say,<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>In response to a reader suggestion, Shipley fed the generated image for Dash back into the system and this happened:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1000\" height=\"334\" src=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13716\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-04.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-04-300x100.jpg 300w, http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/pixar-reverse-toonification-04-768x257.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enjoy some mouthwatering Uncanny Valley Ranch: Using an AI-based framework called&nbsp;Pixel2Style2Pixel&nbsp;and searching for faces in&nbsp;a dataset harvested from Flickr, Nathan Shipley&nbsp;made some more photorealistic faces for Pixar characters. Kottke goes on to say, In response to a reader suggestion, Shipley fed the generated image for Dash back into the system and this happened:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13714\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}