About the lab

Curiosity about characters.
A commitment to understanding them.

Hollywood Reborn is an independent AI research lab in North Carolina. We investigate visual analysis, parametric control and the evaluation of character systems.

Our approach

Make the question
something we can test.

Our research began with a focused question: how can facial features in anime-style imagery be detected and represented in useful, measurable ways?

That investigation led to work on head pose, gaze, expression and coordinate-based frame retrieval. It also exposed the importance of measuring extraction error and understanding the boundaries of a demonstration.

Today we continue that line of inquiry in broader character systems. Our first product is in private development; this site presents selected research that can be explored publicly.

Research history

How the work evolved.

  1. Facial-feature research

    Early investigation of visual features, image generation and parametric extraction for anime-style characters.

  2. A public proof of concept

    A technical report, validation figures and a searchable frame index make the approach available to inspect.

  3. Broader character systems

    Continuing research on control, visual consistency and evaluation, with ongoing product development kept private.

Current directions

Questions that guide the work.

These are areas of investigation. We publish results when there is something concrete to show and explain.

01 / ANALYSIS

Reading visual features

Studying how head pose, eye gaze and expression can be represented as measurable parameters in stylized character imagery.

02 / CONTROL

Making selection controllable

Exploring coordinate-based retrieval and the relationship between a requested visual state and the frames a system returns.

03 / VERIFICATION

Evaluating what a system produces

Investigating visual consistency, extraction limits and methods for comparing generated outputs against intended parameters.

Founder

An independent lab.

Anthony Schultz, founder of Hollywood Reborn

Anthony Schultz

FOUNDER · HOLLYWOOD REBORN LLC

Anthony leads the lab's research and development, connecting work on visual systems, software and controllable characters.

Based in Canton, North Carolina.

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Research infrastructure

Compute for exploration.

We have secured cloud credits from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, and use them to support research and development.

Our research uses NVIDIA GPUs for compute-intensive experiments. This support helps us investigate ideas, evaluate results and develop our own technology.

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Google Cloud

Research is a conversation.

We welcome thoughtful discussions about the work.

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