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Miss B.S. (feat. Tensorflow)

I was experimenting with a new way to render CG models: using a convolutional neural network (CNN) to provide a "beauty" pass rendering.
The idea was to use a CNN to transfer the style of an existing painting to the picture of a sculpture. To do this, I chose a painting of Beatrice Offor (Miss B.S., 1905) and used it as reference for an ad-hoc "cartoonish" sculpture. Then I configured the NN with Tensorflow and provided both a first rendering of the sculpture and the original Offor's painting to it. I find the result - not post-edited - decent.
The 3D model was sculpted, poly-painted and first rendered entirely in ZBrush.
My purpose was to start from a very basic rendering and enhance it with the power of the deep learning.

Original Offor's painting (left), inspired sculpt (center), CNN's result (right)

Original Offor's painting (left), inspired sculpt (center), CNN's result (right)