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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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[ 5.4 ms ] story [ 25.2 ms ] threadIs that a very large dose or just a regular one?
People who grew up and want more out of culture will do what they always have done, which is look for alternative media.
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.
(It's a joke.)
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A
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
The "superficiality" is perfectly unrelated.
Unless your AI takes all that into account.
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.
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.
This isn’t a limitation of neural nets, as early as 2018 we’ve had stable style transfer for videos, see https://medium.com/element-ai-research-lab/stabilizing-neura...
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.
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.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=biZwR6CzVzs