AnimeBackgroundGAN-Shinkai

AnimeBackgroundGAN (CartoonGAN by Chen et. al.)

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• Makoto Shinkai （新海誠） pre-trained model from CartoonGAN [Chen et al., CVPR18].
• This model can transform real-life photos into Japanese-animation-like backgrounds, following the style of movies such as Kimi no Na wa with a photorealistic painting style.
• The implementation is in PyTorch (see source code here).
• Check out the demo here:

Other pre-trained model versions

The other versions were also trained from movies of the different Japanese animation directors.

Mamoru Hosoda（細田守）

• director of Wolf Children, with a distinct mild and cool background style
• Director Profile
• Model Repository: https://huggingface.co/akiyamasho/AnimeBackgroundGAN-Hosoda

Satoshi Kon（今敏）

• director of Paprika with a distinct high contrast, reddish hue style
• Director Profile
• Model Repository: https://huggingface.co/akiyamasho/AnimeBackgroundGAN-Kon

Hayao Miyazaki（宮崎駿）

• director of Howl's Moving Castle with a relatively soft and painterly style
• Director Profile
• Model Repository: https://huggingface.co/akiyamasho/AnimeBackgroundGAN-Miyazaki

Credits

• Paper at CartoonGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks for Photo Cartoonization [Chen et al., CVPR18]
• Original PyTorch implementation was created by Yijun Li
• Spaces/Models re-packaging and implementation by Shō Akiyama.

Special Thanks

• Nima Boscarino
• Omar Sanseviero