Many scenes pay homage to various classic paintings of Van Gogh, and most of the characters are created from the shapes drawn by Van Gogh. The plot trend is a bit similar to a suspense movie, but many of the pictures are so beautiful and fascinating.
It is said that the whole film is completed frame by frame by more than 60,000 oil paintings. Of course, from the fluency of many scenes and action scenes, it must be useful for software assistance and actual photography reference. I saw some people even say, "It's just an ordinary film with filters added. ". Indeed, if the film starts shooting a few years later, the progress of deep learning in artistic style transfer in the past two years is estimated to leave 60 to 70 percent of the work in the production and painting process. But the tools of production have never been an important indicator of the artistry of the work. A painting made with brushes and paints is not necessarily more artistic than a drawing made by prisma, what matters is the content of the work and what it conveys.
So neural style transfer will not replace painting, and algorithmic music generation will not destroy composition and improvisation. On the contrary, the emergence of new tools will give birth to new art forms, like photography or DJing.
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