Bringing impressionism to life with neural style transfer in Come Swim
Bhautik Joshi, Kristen Stewart, David Lewis Shapiro · 2017
Neural Style Transfer is a striking, recently-developed technique that uses neural networks to artistically redraw an image in the style of a source style image. This paper explores the use of this technique in a production setting, applying Neural Style Transfer to redraw key scenes in Come Swim in the style of the impressionistic painting that inspired the film. We present a case study on how the technique can be driven within the framework of an iterative creative process to achieve a desired look and propose a mapping of the broad parameter space to a key set of creative controls. We hope this study can provide insights for others who wish to use the technique in a production setting and guide priorities for future research.