It’s interesting, some of the pictures - and most of the video - don’t read as “cartoon” at all but “photograph with filter.” Because animation/drawing rely on not just simplifying, but selectively simplifying, which is very difficult to imitate without a brain directing what elements get extra detail*. (And that’s leaving aside style whereby forms differ from simplified photorealism.) That the system seems to throw in some artifacts doesn’t help.
*Though in theory an “AI” system could do it with enough examples - by copying the work of humans where the kinds of simplifications are appropriate to the specific subject. But then that becomes really complex - the system has to “recognize” most objects in the image for it to work.
Ha, that was the only image that I thought was really successful and impressive. Well, it explains why the rest of the images don’t live up to that…
