{"id":3748,"date":"2020-09-19T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2020-09-19T05:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2020-09-18T23:52:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T18:22:13","slug":"how-to-toonify-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/how-to-toonify-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Toonify yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the web I came across &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/toonify.justinpinkney.com\/\">Toonify Yourself!<\/a>&#8216; that allows you to upload a photo and see what you&#8217;d look like in an animated movie. It uses deep learning and is based on distillation of a blended StyleGAN models into a pix2pixHD image to image translation network.<\/p>\n<p>It sounded interesting, so I tried it out with one of my pictures and got the following results:<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20170930_0902220102.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"604\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20170930_0902220102.jpg 381w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/20170930_0902220102-189x300.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><br \/>\nOriginal image<\/center>\n<\/td>\n<td><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/index-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"512\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/index-1.jpeg 381w, https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/index-1-223x300.jpeg 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><br \/>\nToonified Image<\/center>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I quite like the result and am thinking of using it as my avatar going forward. What do you think?<br \/>\nThanks to <a href='https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=24494377'>Hacker News<\/a> for the link<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While surfing the web I came across &#8216;Toonify Yourself!&#8216; that allows you to upload a photo and see what you&#8217;d look like in an animated movie. It uses deep learning and is based on distillation of a blended StyleGAN models into a pix2pixHD image to image translation network. It sounded interesting, so I tried it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting-sites","category-my-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3748"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3748\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}