Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim
This work addresses the practical application of style transfer in film production, offering insights for creative industries, but it is incremental as it builds on existing techniques.
The paper applied Neural Style Transfer to redraw key scenes of the film 'Come Swim' in an impressionistic painting style, documenting how it can be integrated into an iterative creative process and proposing a mapping of parameters to creative controls.
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 document 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 that this mapping can provide insights into priorities for future research.