After animating some of my late family members from afar and yonder using AI (trademarked Deep Nostalgia by MyHeritage), I wondered if it can also bring my artificial people I painted (not from portraits, mind you…just my own imaginations of faces) on canvas with pen and acrylics.
The results were outstanding, I think. Below are a sample of my cropped scanned images from my original paintings, and how AI brought them to 3D life with expressions!
![](https://flyingsalmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/crop_Shhh.jpg)
And here she is coming alive…
![](https://flyingsalmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/crop_littlesecret.jpg)
![](https://flyingsalmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/crop_Hope.jpg)
Pretty amazing, aren’t they? The paintings were proportionately human enough for AI to recognize them as a human face and therefore applied the same algorithm as it would on a human portrait and voila!
For comparison, I tried uploading a painting of Mona Lisa and it didn’t detect the face from the following scanned image…
![](https://flyingsalmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/monalisa-700x1024.png)
So, I cropped just the face part and tried again, no luck still. Then I removed the background trees/hills behind and converted just to B&W and tried again with the following image…
![](https://flyingsalmon.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/monalisa-facebw.png)
Unfortunately, it was not able to detect a face either. I have to wonder if they purposefully prevented famous paintings from being animated for pure monetary purposes.
If you’re interested in taking a look at some of my paintings/artwork, you can explore https://www.deviantart.com/fsartwork
Enjoy! Keep creating!