“Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN § StyleGAN 2”, Gwern2019-02-04 (, , ; similar)⁠:

A tutorial explaining how to train and generate high-quality anime faces with StyleGAN 1+2 neural networks, and tips/scripts for effective StyleGAN use.

How to use StyleGAN-2, an improvement to StyleGAN released in December 2019, which removes the blob artifacts and is generally of somewhat higher visual quality.

StyleGAN 2 is tricky to use because it requires custom local compilation of optimized code. Aaron Gokaslan provided tips on getting StyleGAN 2 running and trained a StyleGAN 2 on my anime portraits, which is available for download and which I use to create TWDNEv3.