When Art and portraiture meet Technology, strange things happen! How portrait painting and technology can match?
I received a few months ago, an intriguing letter from an Associate Professor at the CTU in Prague. The CTU is the Czech Technical University in Prague. One of the largest universities in the Czech Republic, and one of the oldest institutes of technology in Central Europe. It said something like this:
“Dear Graciela,
I’m an Associate Professor at CTU in Prague. With my students, we are working on a method for artistic style transfer.
CTU, Czech Technical University Praga
We found your really beautiful portrait.which is a very nice example of a painting that perfectly suits our research needs. To be able to show your artwork in a research paper and accompany videos describing our method, I would like to ask you for your permission kindly.
CTU, Czech Technical University Praga
I have always thought that It is quite interesting when Art and portraiture meet Technology. The results that they can produce together, and more in our days, maybe at least surprising…or amazing.
I think that now is the time to share with you this interesting Project, lead by Doctor Ing. Daniel Sykora, Ph.D. from the Czech Technical University, (Department of Computer Graphics and Interaction Faculty of Electrical Engineering), and recently awarded with the “Neuron Award for Promising Young Scientists”, 2017. I was really impressed by the results… Maybe the most interesting is to watch this technology applied and working!! It is incredible to watch how your painting, from a bidimensional and rigid piece, transforms into something alive. How it moves, gesticulate and articulate keeping all the characteristics you painted. I encourage you to take a look at this amazing video in this link. An example-Based Synthesis of Stylized Facial Animations.
Hope you find it interesting as I do!!
I like your site very much and your work is so fabulous, but the materials and the pencil your using as well of what kind of paper your using in your piece it doesn’t show in the links that you post on the website. please kindly write what kind of pastel and mechanical pencil and paper your using .
Hello Jack, thank you for following! Many of the portraits are made with Canson papers, especially the big ones. About the mechanical pencil you are mentioning it can be easily found on my blog. I have a special post about it; “The red pencil”. Best, Graciela.