[HN Gopher] Style2paints, an AI driven lineart colorization tool
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       Style2paints, an AI driven lineart colorization tool
        
       Author : baud147258
       Score  : 66 points
       Date   : 2021-09-12 12:27 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (github.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | pram wrote:
       | This is also essentially built into Clip Studio. It's usually not
       | worth the effort. You have to spend a lot of time putting down
       | color hints for it to do anything remotely good, and at that
       | point you're already basically laying in the painting anyway.
        
         | baud147258 wrote:
         | I'd say it depends on the original line art: for anime it seems
         | to put mostly correct colors right from the get-go, saving some
         | time for the basic coloring. But most other art styles, you
         | have to do most of the work yourself, as you said
        
       | baud147258 wrote:
       | Some non-anime style examples:
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       | https://i.gyazo.com/474eab5c14ed592fc83a4a369ae675a8.png
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       | https://i.gyazo.com/2b222788af78495f9c629347f8399e8f.png
        
       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | But does it color anything other than girls?
        
         | numpad0 wrote:
         | I'm guessing the answer is along "if you have a good enough
         | dataset to train with, yeah"
        
         | baud147258 wrote:
         | well, after scrolling through a good chunk of the examples, I
         | found a cat
        
           | pkdpic wrote:
           | I also found and noted the cat, then more non-cats, then one
           | starfox.
           | 
           | https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lllyasviel/style2paints/ma.
           | ..
        
       | mywacaday wrote:
       | SEPA is a poor choice to rename especially I'm the EU,
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_Euro_Payments_Area?wpro...
        
       | schaefer wrote:
       | Whoa. I don't know how to draw. But this motivates me to play
       | with the combination of drawing and Algorithms like I've never
       | felt before.
        
       | swayvil wrote:
       | This has the most fabulous collection of examples I ever saw.
       | It's a testament to the power of art-automation. Infinite beauty
       | becomes accessable.
        
       | mkesper wrote:
       | The shades are almost always too much, especially the cat.
        
       | ackbar03 wrote:
       | I remember this when it was first online as a web app and it was
       | a pretty big hit amongst Manga fans. I remember someone was
       | finding the server costs but then they shut it down. I guess they
       | had trouble monitizing it? I always wondered whether this could
       | actually become a useful+profitable product.
        
       | Zababa wrote:
       | The results are impressive.
        
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