Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN

gwern, first off I'd like to mention I absolutely love your work! It's always a pleasure to read your longform writeups on StyleGAN, even if half of it admittingly goes over my head. :)

Can I ask what was modified recently about the write up? I remember reading it a few days back but I see at the top that it was recently modified.

As an aside, I wonder when we'll see the first "fake artist" using TWDNE and Waifu2x then photoshopping/cleaning up some of the irregularities of the generations to output a bunch of "well drawn art". Someone who's decently talented could also use it as a shortcut to avoid a lot of time spent drawing faces/hairstyles and use the generated faces as a starting point.

I had a thought once, years ago, about trying to work out the math behind the bezier curves that make up a cartoon image of a human face - it seems like you'd have to be able to work it out to a series of control points relative to some reference point. I never had the free time to pursue it, and the fact that nobody else never did makes me think I must have been underthinking how complex that actually would be - still, I find it surprising that you have to apply the complexity of a neural network before you can generate a believable cartoon image of a human.