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The random face style each frame is oddly captivating
It's like a scramble suit from Scanner Darkly
Those morphing faces gave me a disturbing flashback of looking into a mirror after LSD macrodose.
A scanner darkly
Don't compare. This looks 100 time better than that movie.
The thing that really triggered an Uncanny Valley reaction for me was when animal faces appeared on the back of his head in some sections. Very unsettling.
> macrodose

Is that a very large dose or just a regular one?

In the next five years all high cost productions are going to be replaced by a neural style transfer from the child scribbles. I am only half-joking.
The next five years is going to be a wild ride for all of visual media. Studios need to buckle up.
It will be a very boring over-saturated world, where everything is possible and everything is superficial.
Check out a lot of children's shows nowadays, just soulless 3D animation.
I feel like this is going to result in a generation of adults with absolutely awful taste. Imagine if your favourite childhood show was, like, a poorly animated spiderman-driving-a-car video on YouTube.
every generation of adults has absolutely awful taste in general. There's a reason the longest running shows on TV are telenovelas. Or my personal favorite, the readers vs board modern library top 100 books (https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0048/55/1399297062273.png)

People who grew up and want more out of culture will do what they always have done, which is look for alternative media.

I think it might have more to do with the actual content than the animation. A lot of today's trash on youtube that parents leave their kids watch unattended is dangerous, and seems to promote ADD.

Thankfully, there are still youtube channels with shows and cartoons we grew up with, so parents can show those to their kids instead of today's trash.

The animation in Paw Patrol is kind of awful. Compare with Wonder Pets and it's night and day.
Plus, at least one of those pups is a class traitor!

(It's a joke.)

Thanks, I knew nothing about these shows, I just watched 5 minutes of each and it was an experience.

Wonder Pets seemed relaxing and amusing to me; there was a song “you have to la-la-la-la-love yourself”. Paw Patrol seemed high dopamine action; with pets either hustling hard to do what a human told them to do, or providing comic relief.

To be fair, there was a good amount of soulless, cheap animation back in the 80s and 90s too.

Human creativity is still fine and kicking, it’s just that the curator/gatekeeper were removed, so parents are left on their own to select shows for their kids. Which sucks if your parents can’t be bothered.

At the same time, there are some absolute gems which I would have loved as a child. Bluey is a work of art, from the animation and stories to the unique score for each episode. The episode "Sleepytime" was the 2nd highest rated tv episode after BBs Ozymandias. Puffin Rock, Trash Truck or Sea of Love also come to mind as great tv shows. There are even still new episodes of Shawn the Sheep coming out, which are hilarious. It's just harder to find high-quality content, when it's so cheap to produce 10x more garbage.
You mean the entire 21st century so far?
Most movies already reuse a lot color tones, shots, lines, scripts and sound effects.

I can't bear hearing the overused "sling" from a sword getting move one cm, or the "click" of a gun pointed in one direction.

I hate the blue + yellow + actor face template for half movie posters.

I get bored when I saw in the 80' the same "boy saves girl" cliche, then in 2000, "you are secretly the one, your destiny is saving the world", then now, "look they are all from a minority, how subversive!"

AI is just going to industrialized copy/pasting in a industry that have created the concept way before we had GUI.

You are overlooking the fact that the same tools could be in the hands of ordinary people as well - like you. It might just be a future whose art you might enjoy.
Personal enjoyment is so cliche. Personalization will be doom.

Only half joking. Arguably, the point of media is connection to the collective consciousness. But, something to be said about exploring the personal imagination.

The early web promised this too. "Everyone can be their own publisher.". We turned from notepad.exe to geocities then blogs. Now we have tiktok which is almost literally built around the premise of copying eachother. "Please like and subscribe and hit that notification bell" in each and every video about gardening, ancient history, movies or any passion. we have tweetstorms, cut-and-paste formatting on all social networks - linkedin being the most cringy IMO.

The tools in the hands of ordinary people has proven to result in an infinite firehose of ordinary expression. Those ordinary people are reduced to copy-machines that reproduce what algorithms amplify.

we could bring back mid-century UPA style cartoons (ex: https://youtu.be/brX5zlDoez4?t=49) whenever we want. Those technologies still exist.

I'm not in animation but I assume there's still plenty of that content being made, it's just in its own subculture somewhere

So... like a marvel movie.
That's silly. The show's content is not going to be worse because you don't need a team of animators. Instead, think of "free easy animation" as a tool which lets writers start up an attempt solo.

The "superficiality" is perfectly unrelated.

But we might get more indie movies, illustrated novels and lot more creative stuff.
The good stuff won't be. It's a better time than ever to actually have taste.
All it takes is a fully choreographed, cut, and animated live action sequence as one of the inputs. /s
Or an additional prompt: “fully choreographed, cut and animated sequence”.
...in the style of Quentin Tarantino
Way Hollywood works might just say "Blockbuster movie doing over $400 million at the box office" and it starts grinding through the pulp.
It’s not real time though. So at best you’d get a movie that would do $400M+ at the time the dataset has been assembled. If others are doing the same, the audience might get bored and prefer something fresh.

Unless your AI takes all that into account.

Sounds like the existing system of blockbuster movie production
Hollywood tried that once, kind of, by letting a kid create a movie concept. It was called Monster Trucks. It did not change the industry.
An app that takes kid drawings and turns them into something would be cool.
Netflix &co already did that, the average quality of movies/shows is absolute garbage and there aren't more masterpieces than 20 years ago
Straight from storyboards more likely
Not even close to right or stable, falls apart in the tighter shot on geralt when it no longer recognizes him as human, and AI of course has no idea about 3D context so can never do cell shading in the way it is being trained.

This was honestly a great waste of compute power.

To the downvoters, do what you want, but it doesn't change the apparent reality of what we're seeing. AI image generation is an exciting and growing technology but this isn't a remarkable or successful application of it in any measurable dimension. The system lacks temporal and spatial context and that is going to be a hard blocker for this application.

I agree. Some of these frames look live action instead of anime.
Yeh it's seems more cell shaded then a anime
They should have included the input frames side by side - it’s source images is live action video frames.
True, wonkiness level is high. Still impressive compared to not having this emerging tech a year ago. It will get better of course.

But wate of computer power? No, not at all. You are missing the novel creative aspect of this. This level of wonkiness is absolutely perfect for music video producers, and I am betting it will not take long before we see videos in this “style”. Some time ago there was a short trend of data moshing videos. They were certainly trippy and stood out, albeit short lived. Digital artefacts as a way of creative expression can work great, and will too in this case.

Ghibli style is a real stretch. Even discounting "style" means more than just the colors on the frame (what shot compositions, what's in frame, where does the camera linger, etc) the redditor didn't really succeed in capturing even one frame that had the visual style of a Ghibli frame.

Praying stuff like this feels... Not crass, exactly, but like... Unrefined and ersatz in a way. It's like buying a mall katana and displaying it like it's something of cultural value.

I agree ,but it's a fun experiment to take image generator to it's limit
The future will need some bug fixes.
If I didn't know context, looks almost stylistically intentional. Crazy to think a few years ago this would have taken untold tens of thousands of man hours to plan and animate, would have probably gone viral and won a bunch of awards. Now it's just an interesting accident from fucking around.
>would have taken untold tens of thousands of man hours to plan and animate

The "tens of thousands" is an overestimation for 1min. And my guess is it took substantial time to plan and animate the original Witcher sequence as well. Also modern anime utilize similar conversions (such as sourcing photographs) and 3d software.

Crazy. Just imagine what you could do with it. You could basically just do some amateur scenes in your garden and have SD make an anime masterpiece of it.
Very dream like, trippy results! Reminds me alot of Waking Life movie