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[justahumanwithamask]

Mappa animators can finally go home to see their kids for a weekend.

[koketsok]

not gonna lie, I am a bit depressed as an animator doing inbetweens/colouring is how alot of us get into the 2d animation industry, so that being removed does not bode well to newer junior animators, hopefully the industry accommodates more people with these developments, but the spree of job cuts does not fill me with confidence.Really interested to see how I can fit these developments in my work flow, so I am slightly optimistic.I dont know the legal nightmare having ai inbetween will work in commercial animation since ai generated work has no copyright.

[croble]

Please, make an Ai that does the dishes, the laundry and cleans the house so it is ME who animates instead of a machine.

[doppelganger]

Hayao miyazaki: I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

[Galomortalbr]

the coloring thing is more impressive than the connecting frames thing tbh

[PeterSatera]

2D/3D Animator here.

The colouring is impressive. It means you could produce a line test/pencil test produce two or three coloured frames, spend days on those to make them of much higher calibre than usual and then let the AI do the work. People are apparently getting artifacts. But you could make it simple. Inputting one layer at a time and use a chromakey colour to return the transparency / separation needed during comp. This could also be used to reduce the issues perceived when using 3D combined with 2D.

Right now, without it being 4K and the colour features not there its still in its infancy. Id like to see 32-bit image /masks sequences be part of the input and output.

Make it a tool, not a cheat.

The AI should be tailored to remove burden, to support the creative process of an animator, reduce labour intensive work and promote a higher output for audiences. Id like to see that creative control is maintained with our time repurposed to other parts of the pipeline.

A few years, and this will be mainstream.

[TotalWreck]

The whole AI art movement scares me and depresses me. I've been drawing my entire life, trying to improve and honing my skills. All the time and effort I put in just to be replaced by a bot. I feel robbed. I feel violated. It's like a big part of my soul died. People that are not in the art scene can't comprehend how this whole AI art movement destroys our lifes - they just laugh and tell you how dramatic you are, ignoring the fact that artists (be it digital artists, 3D-model artists, voice actors, writers, animators, hell even musicians are affected) actually losing their jobs, get depressive and even end their lifes.

Art was a big part of our culture over the centuries, it made us human and set us apart from the animal kingdom. Now we sold our souls to the devil. We will gradually lose our creativity as we evolve. They call AI progressive, I beg to differ- it's more regressive than ANY of us can fathom at this time. No one can say with certainty where we're heading, but it can't be in favor for the artists. Hate the future.

[theanimdclassroom]

Animator and animation educator here.

If you’re young person learning art and looking at this and getting depressed just know that I felt the same way when I saw Toy Story in theaters. I knew by the time I was old enough traditional animation would be dead and I was right.

It didn’t stop me though.

Every generation of animators will have a new tech they have to adapt to.

The only people who are truly threatened by this are people who want jobs that were being outsourced anyway. If you want to be a traditional animator in America Titmouse is the last studio and they struggle to pay their animators a living wage.

Before you came into the picture traditional animation was already dying… in the studio world.

That’s the beauty of independent animation. There are no rules as to what animation can or cannot be but too many animators feel like they need the studios but the studios don’t feel the same way.

They’ve been trying to get rid of artists and they have the money to hire outsource studios to do the animation for them.

SO, why don’t you just use A.I. against them to make something better than them?

We animators complain that the studios make garbage but when we have a chance to take the reins for ourselves we’re too afraid to do it.

Embrace it; don’t fear it!

[JorgeLeste-wwzy]

in my opinion, AI is taking over and is making people LAZY, i believe in hard work and learning how to animate

[omnymisa]

When it comes to AI "free" mean you are allowed to train it free for the AI's owner, once it is refine enough and the owner can offer a more reliable product you may be removes and now there is Ai that can work equal to you because you trained it yourself.

[skyebrows]

As a CG supervisor i think this may be the way to make 3d animation blend more seamlessly or masquerade as anime by using a sparse frame rate and letting it draw the tween frames. I'll post my findings.

[Vutieangel]

well there goes my career before it even started

[wolftears]

funny how most of the example animations are from movies with a director that despises ai

[gnihtyreve]

2001: A Space Odyssey
2024:Still fucking on earth with ridiculous rent

[MrCrazyGameGuy]

Okay... the colouring is actually fucking wild. I mean a handfull of frames you can just tween for the most part anyway, but the colouring is definitely something else. Being able to storyboard and then running through an AI and having a full markup in a few minutes is... welp that's game changing.

[DearFox]

I'm an amateur animator, and I tried this on some of my work, and essentially it makes almost no sense to me. Until such tools have a truly extensive list of functions for controlling what should move and how, I don’t think that such tools will make practical sense.
Well, you know, why do I need AI to generate zoom animations when I can do it much faster and without artifacts?
Yes, in the examples it looks good, but these are the materials on which he was most likely trained.
Although I think from the technical side it looks interesting. But it's nothing more than a toy at the moment.

[razorshark]

The amount of frames animators draw per motion is “decided” per movement and never “calculated”. So no, it will not replace animators, but it could def. be a good tool for speeding up certain processes, like auto colouring and animating parts that have a continues flow, like water or lava for example. AI is always morphing and tweening frames, which always looks not that great for characters. AI seems to be working towards its own particular style, when it comes to animation. It’s still impressive though how it calculates the volume of an object and tries to make it work.

[mafubakocher]

For all the artists out there that feel down because of things like this, listen to this.
Obviously, AI can be a powerful tool for annoying labour and thats a positive aspect, AS LONG as it is good enough to (technically) be a replacement of human work, which it still isnt by far. But okay, people say that its eventually gonna reach that point and that we will then be replaced - but no:
AI will never replace art or artists. We can only be replaced when we let it replace us and artists hate AI for obvious reasons. Its not only about how good AI gets, its about aspects that AI simply cant replace - like the sheer fact, that its created by humans. Beings that are capable of having feelings, thoughts and experience. The only people who see AI as more than tools or even as replacements are the ones too dumb to appreciate realness. No matter how good AI can get and how much this fact will satisfy the cattle, thats the one thing it simply cant be: real. And if theres one thing where realness is appreciated, its art.
Art of any form needs more than just prompts and references, it needs sentience and thought put into every step of the process. And even if AI became fully sentient, it still would only replicate realness better. And if AI became fully sentient id worry abt smth else lmao. Anyways keep it up to whoevers reading this

[ivancabrera]

when I imagined the future I always knew that ai would replace us humans but I always thought it would replace the most manual labors not the creative ones this only will enable companies to further abuse their animators don't be fooled after all a machine can do it for you 🤦‍♀

[Atokun]

This is really mind blowing and would save a lot of time, but as an animator my self, knowing that this AI could still evolve to the point where it can replace us, It's just depressing.
specially for the aspiring animators, they will have no choice but to adapt. this really takes away the fun in learning and just skips a lot of parts that could be beneficial for the animators growth.
but I guess there's nothing we can do, it's the age of AI, and I'll probly have to use this in the future too, but I guess atleast I had the fun to learn it from scratch.