Mostly samples from anime, but one from a more Western looking example as well.
It’s not perfect. The reviewer’s own samples failed miserably, such as a Totoro head turn, and zoom out of someone watching fireworks.
But for coloring a fully sketched sequence from one fully colored frame, or generating wave splashes, flying hair and flapping clothes, wow.
AI can fuck off straight to hell if it’s going to take actual animator’s jobs
Stick to creating cures for cancer and such, it has no place in “art”
Sadly art is the only place for “AI”. Everywhere else the negative impacts from it are much much worse. Really tho it has no place anywhere imo.
This sort of tech is going to enable so much new content to flourish when you don’t need an army of animator’s slowly drawing different poses of a lip to pronounce one sentence in one clip.
This level of animation is tedious grind, no art has been lost. The art is the final product we watch.
Yes, and no.
Yes, I can see human animators getting replaced from animating “easy” motions, and they could be put to work animating more difficult motions, improving the quality of animation where the budget remains level with current budget levels.
But, what is more likely is animation direction suffering, because motions being restricted to what the AI is good at, i.e. we’ll have less variety of motions.
Also, as we saw in the video, non-human creature motions will have to be drawn by hand because there aren’t any models to train the AI for each unique creature design. This will make them non-human creatures more expensive to animate, and therefore even rarer. Consider the epidemic of bad CG dragons in isekai shows now.
And/or there will be less staff hired to produce the same amount of shows, because maybe the AI improves their productivity.
Less staff hired, means less junior animators in training to become senior animators, and the industry will eventually find itself in a senior talent deficit again.
I can see a lot of colorists losing their jobs, too. The one thing that the AI did do flawlessly in the video was color sketches from the one colored frame.
We’re already restricted by what animators have time to animate. This could definitely lead to fewer scenes of paper dolls bobbing up and down to represent walking. There’s plenty of low-hanging fruit prime for some uplift in anime already.
I also posted about this a few days ago.
