Passpartout: The Starving Artist

Game release from Flamebait Games is a starving artist-em-up, where you create painting to sell and move up in your art career:

Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents’ fridge? 

On My Way

Music Video for track by Grand Yellow put together by Akatre uses 3D scans and assets together with minimalism and photorealistic rendering to great effect:

Directed by Akatre | akatre.com Music: Grand Yellow (Dify Records) Executive production by Wacko - Première Heure Post-production by St-Louis Post House 

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Portraits of Imaginary people

Project work-in-progress from Mike Tyka creates new images of faces from a dataset using neural networks, which are then upscaled (or ‘upres-ing’) into higher resolution using machine learning methods:

For a while now I’ve been experimenting with ways to use generative neural nets to make portraits. Early experiments were based on deepdream-like approaches using backprop to the image but lately I’ve focused on GANs. As always resolution and fine detail is really difficult to achieve. For starters the receptive field of thse networks is usually less than 256x256 pixels. One way around this is tiling combined with stacking GANs …

I tried a similar approach and I’ve been finally been having some more success upres-ing GAN-generated faces to 768x768 pixels in two stages and in some cases as far as 4k x 4k, using three stages. This gives them a lot more crisp detail. Since I’m trying to do this with art in mind, I don’t mind if the results are not necessarily realistic but fine texture is important no matter what even if it’s surreal but highres texture. 

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Merch Mulch

360 video piece by Claire Hentschker is a tour of several 3D photogrametric reconstructions using YouTube videos of abandoned American shopping malls:

A three-dimensional photogrammetric amalgamation of abandoned shopping malls, digitally reconstructed from youtube videos taken prior to the sites’ destruction. Music by R. Luke Dubois.

http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_GAC15_Deep_Shift_Software_Transform_Society.pdf