For each frame, get at least 4 different drawings.
For voters, show them 2-4 frames and have them pick the best one.
If there are more than 4 versions of a frame, do a bracket-based competition to determine the best frame.
This could be an ongoing process. Generate a version of the movie using the best available frames, but continue allowing people to redraw frames. The movie would continue getting better and better over time.
Then, when you watch the movie, maybe you could have a slider to control which "generation" of the movie you're watching. Slide all the way to the left and it will be really primitive, slide all the way to the right and it will be the best version.
If they were fully shaded frames it would work, but hairlines I have no idea.
Also I observed that some frames left a dark background white, and others filled in a dark background as black. So you'd have to set up a lot of drawing "rules" to ensure it was even conceptually meaningful to generate an average in the first place.
Distance fields would work great for font outlines, but not for translating movie frames.
Pass the reference frame and each candidate drawing through a CNN. Measure the cosine similarity between the candidate embedding and the reference embedding. Flag drawings that fall below a threshold.
Pass candidates through CLIP. Flag images with obvious garbage descriptions.
They pick the worst one.
Throw in a control once in a awhile.
Eventually you’ll have a sorted list of the best to the worst frames. Have the worst ones redrawn.
However, if you let it run too long, you might get a Pixar film.
Fun alternative: show artists the best images. Eventually it will be gamed and it will become the Bee Penis film.