How Pixar used neural style transfer a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks to animate Ember a lead character in its movie Elemental (Marah Eakin/Wired)

Marah Eakin / Wired:
How Pixar used neural style transfer, a type of AI used to make photos look like popular artworks, to animate Ember, a lead character in its movie Elemental  —  It's harder to make fire than you might think.  But the Pixar team was determined to do the impossible.  —  Pixar had a problem.

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