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How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2510" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395115/roman-emperors-photorealistic-portraits-ai-artbreeder-dan-voshart" target="_blank"><strong>How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life - The Verge</strong></a></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Transforming statues into photorealistic faces with AI </strong></p><p></p><p>Machine learning is a fantastic tool for renovating old photos and videos. So much so that it can even bring ancient statues to life, transforming the chipped stone busts of long-dead Roman emperors into photorealistic faces you could imagine walking past on the street.</p><p></p><p>The portraits are the creation of designer Daniel Voshart, who describes the series as a quarantine project that got a bit out of hand. Primarily a VR specialist in the film industry, Voshart’s work projects got put on hold because of COVID-19, and so he started exploring a hobby of his: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedStatues/" target="_blank">colorizing old statues</a>. Looking for suitable material to transform, he began working his way through Roman emperors. He finished his initial depictions of the first 54 emperors in <a href="https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8f" target="_blank">July</a>, but this week, he released updated portraits and <a href="https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1296664858411270144" target="_blank">new posters for sale</a>.</p><p></p><p>Voshart told <em>The Verge</em> that he’d originally made 300 posters in his first batch, hoping they’d sell in a year. Instead, they were gone in three weeks, and his work has spread far and wide since. “I knew Roman history was popular and there was a built-in audience,” says Voshart. “But it was still a bit of a surprise to see it get picked up in the way that it did.”</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2510, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395115/roman-emperors-photorealistic-portraits-ai-artbreeder-dan-voshart'][B]How a designer used AI and Photoshop to bring ancient Roman emperors back to life - The Verge[/B][/URL] [B] Transforming statues into photorealistic faces with AI [/B] Machine learning is a fantastic tool for renovating old photos and videos. So much so that it can even bring ancient statues to life, transforming the chipped stone busts of long-dead Roman emperors into photorealistic faces you could imagine walking past on the street. The portraits are the creation of designer Daniel Voshart, who describes the series as a quarantine project that got a bit out of hand. Primarily a VR specialist in the film industry, Voshart’s work projects got put on hold because of COVID-19, and so he started exploring a hobby of his: [URL='https://www.reddit.com/r/ColorizedStatues/']colorizing old statues[/URL]. Looking for suitable material to transform, he began working his way through Roman emperors. He finished his initial depictions of the first 54 emperors in [URL='https://medium.com/@voshart/photoreal-roman-emperor-project-236be7f06c8f']July[/URL], but this week, he released updated portraits and [URL='https://twitter.com/dvoshart/status/1296664858411270144']new posters for sale[/URL]. Voshart told [I]The Verge[/I] that he’d originally made 300 posters in his first batch, hoping they’d sell in a year. Instead, they were gone in three weeks, and his work has spread far and wide since. “I knew Roman history was popular and there was a built-in audience,” says Voshart. “But it was still a bit of a surprise to see it get picked up in the way that it did.” [/QUOTE]
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