Cartoon-StyleGAN

Why we included this project

Turning a real face photo into a consistent cartoon or webtoon character is a common ask, and this repo shows a workable path using a pretrained StyleGAN2. The author fine-tunes StyleGAN2-ADA on small, unbalanced datasets such as webtoon faces, and introduces two concrete techniques: freezing the low-resolution layers of the generator and the style vector (FreezeSG), plus a structure loss, to keep the source face's identity and pose while shifting the style. Pretrained models for Disney, webtoon, and Metfaces are included, and the notebook demonstrates downstream edits like changing expression or pose, even text-driven changes via StyleCLIP-style latent optimization. The Colab notebook lets you cartoonize your own face without setting up a full training environment, which makes it handy for artists, hobbyists, and teams prototyping stylized avatar pipelines.