After seeing the great potential of Nvidia’s GauGAN for concept artists, I thought I would explore the possibility that the computer could use the program rather than myself.
GauGAN allows the user to upload a ‘segmentation map’, which is just a jpg or png image of block colours, each colour representing a different landscape element.
Implementation into my existing generation program
Here I have set the background colour to sky and allowed the program to draw land. On the right is the generated output – interesting, but would like to give the program more freedom
Too much freedom… bit of a mess.
Adjustments – Changed the program so it fills in big blocks rather than small lines which didn’t really make sense for a landscape image, also limited slightly the colours that can be used.
The program has created some really interesting results – These could definitely be made into full landscape paintings. I can definitely see this process being used for creating the environments for my images in the future.
VCD 453 - Jason Fastier 