A Computer Algorithm Does the Work of 85 Artists: Watch Starry Starwars: a Clip of Star Wars: Episode V in the Art Style of Vincent Van Gogh • /r/MachineLearning

While it has taken over 50000 pounds and a large collection of artists to hand-paint each frame of a the Van Gogh movie: Loving Vincent, recent advances in neural algorithms artistic style (Gatys et al.) allow one to capture his art style on a computer. Although the work of Gatys et al. worked well on images, the naive method for extending it to movies does not produce great results. The video below shows a new method of rendering movies in a given art style using optical flow to move the textures with the objects in the scene. A technical report will appear soon on arxiv. Now that the code is written, the movie is generated with little human input.