Turn your image or video into a cartoon

A tool for converting images and videos into cartoons. Tested on python 3.7.

Results:

This code is based on WhiteBox cartoonization tool from https://github.com/SystemErrorWang/White-box-Cartoonization/.
It uses pretrained models from https://github.com/experience-ml/cartoonize.

Install

Create virtual environment

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Run

Set environment variable before running.

export PROTOCOL_BUFFERS_PYTHON_IMPLEMENTATION=python

Convert image to cartoon (code replaces image in place):

python toonize.py image.jpg

Convert all jpg images in curent folder to cartoon:

python toonize.py "*.jpg"

Convert video to cartoon:

python toonize.py video.mp4