AnimeGAN: Do real porn games need this photo filter?

MLocke

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It's called AnimeGAN v2 Face Portrait v2. We all know about the much-maligned real porn genre. I doubt it would change an essential characteristic of the genre. It's not really capable of turning porn stars into waifu material, but it feminizes faces and confuses your brain as it looks to be something completely different from the source.

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I'd argue they (real porn games) don't need it, but I'd be very interested in seeing a game that utilised it, if that's logistically possible.

Heck, I'd be interested in seeing any porn in general utilise it - does it work for longform videoclips, how would it handle non-POV shots, etc etc
 

Mimir's Lab

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Jesus christ! Some of these results are insane!

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I'm gonna learn this software or whatever it is and try it on HS2 characters and see how it goes.
 
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MLocke

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Here are the other samples. This can be considered merely the latest style they've come up with, but it may have taken a long time to train and required focusing on faces alone.

You have to consider that GANs will become a powerful postprocessing and maybe even a photorealism tool over time. As it stands, you would probably need it if you were distinctly unhappy with the quality of rendering that came out of DAZ or something. I don't know how it would deal with preserving the lighting consistently across a scene, but I don't think you lose too many fine details nor colors. Although, if you need to preserve the face and other details of a character, I think you would need to let this tool do it's thing then paste them back into a scene.


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Hentai_Kishi

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Sometimes the faces become too feminine or with too many soft features but more often than not it looks pretty good. I'm actually late on this, I was going to make a lengthy post about how the real porn developers could use generative algorithms to make art, the programming logic is somewhat simple and understandable while also producing some very impressive results. A quick google search on "generative art portraits" will show what I'm talking about. Libraries like "Processing" and techniques like "flow fields" can make any image look like impressionistic paintings.

Making these techniques common, understandable or even just providing a software that applies these algorithms with ease of use could revolutionize the H-game indie scene because the devs wouldn't need to always depend on standard 3DCG when they don't have a dedicated artist, of course the artwork generated won't be really original since you are just running a porn-shoot image through an algorithm but still, it opens a lot of possibilities and allows even more customization when setting the game mood and tone as you can apply a myriad of different filters that fit each character individually or even background scenery.
 

IM6

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Seems like it has trouble going below the shoulders, but I fed it a number of my DAZ side images and they came out looking really nice.

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You can see it get smudgier with full-bodies - this was one of the better results from my attempts:
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MLocke

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Just to provide a clarification for anyone trying this, the Paprika model would have to used on a full scene. A square can be sliced out of the scene if you want to run a face model like Face Portrait v2 separately. I guess you would be able to splice the image back together.

AnimeGANv3 was supposed to be released in Spring of 2021, so news of that may show up from TachibanaYoshino on GitHub.
 

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Wasn't "Good Girl Gone Bad" done using something like this? I sorta remember a thread showing "before" pictures of some of the scenes.

Anyway, I have no problem with people using real porn images and this is actually kinda cool also.

Just don't go thinking that his "alters" the images enough to get past copyright. It might be considered an original/derivative work if it's heavily filtered but that's some serious grey area.