At Siggraph '98, Pixar unveiled a short animated film. Christened Geri’s Game, it was, to quote its Academy Award press release, the “endearing tale of an aging codger who likes to play chess in the park against himself.” Not only was it artistically stunning, but it was also a technological powerhouse. The short served as a vehicle to demonstrate Pixar’s latest addition to its production envir...

Believable agents will often need to engage in social behaviors with other agents and with a user. Believable social behaviors need to meet a number of requirements: they must be robust, they must re ect and a ect the emotional state of the agent, they must take into account the interpersonal relationships with the other behavior participants, and, most importantly, they must show o the artisti...

We investigate the automatic construction of visual scenes via a hybrid evolutionary/hill-climbing approach using a correlationbased fitness function. This forms part of The Painting Fool system, an automated artist which is able to render the scenes using simulated art materials. We further describe a novel method for inventing fitness functions using the HR descriptive machine learning system...

Neural Style Transfer is a striking, recently-developed technique that uses neural networks to artistically redraw an image in the style of a source style image. This paper explores the use of this technique in a production setting, applying Neural Style Transfer to redraw key scenes in Come Swim in the style of the impressionistic painting that inspired the film. We document how the technique ...

For millennia, music has been a performance-based artform open to continuous variation and reinterpretation. More recently however, industrialisation has allowed for the mass-production of sound recordings, in turn bringing conjecture about the changed nature of music reception in society. This article reflects on related practice-based work by its authors and examines aspects of music producti...

Finding useful and accurate techniques for presenting many fields of vector and scalar data is essential for developing good CFD visualization techniques. Recent work borrows ideas from artists to produce such visualizations. In this paper we present the results of a study to determine which classes of CFD problems benefit most from novel artistic methods. We found that people were able to make...