AnimeBackgroundGAN (CartoonGAN by Chen et. al.)

• Satoshi Kon（今敏） 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 Paprika with a distinct high contrast, reddish hue style.
• The implementation is in PyTorch (see source code here).
• Check out the demo here:

Other pre-trained model versions

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

Makoto Shinkai （新海誠）

• director of Kimi no Na wa with a photorealistic painting style
• Director Profile
• Model Repository: https://huggingface.co/akiyamasho/AnimeBackgroundGAN-Shinkai

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