[ve55]

Links to related projects in anime art generation for those interested:

Waifu Labs v2, referenced in this post (generate amazing custom anime face images): https://waifulabs.com (write-up is the above link: https://waifulabs.com/blog/ai-creativity)

This Anime Does Not Exist (AI-generated anime-style artwork): https://thisanimedoesnotexist.ai (write-up https://www.gwern.net/Faces#extended-stylegan2-danbooru2019-... and https://nearcyan.com/this-anime-does-not-exist)

This Waifu Does Not Exist (AI-generated anime-style faces): https://thiswaifudoesnotexist.net (write-up: https://www.gwern.net/Faces#twdne)

There's also a lot of literate on e.g. automatic manga coloration, auto-translation, image superresolution, anime frame interpolation, and much more. Worth checking out some places like https://old.reddit.com/r/AnimeResearch/ if you're interested!

[numpad0]

This one too https://twitter.com/t_takasaka/status/1479784432697749513

[the8472]

Note that TADNE, being based on newer models, generates full images rather than only faces.