People, ai is not the worse thing ever. If maintained by the right people. Big statement I know. (So don’t let Google, or Meta, or Twitter X obtain a monopoly over it.) Complaining while doing nothing to prevent that, is not helping prevent an ai monopoly.
Also, since someone mentioned artist exploitation, ai would actually reduce exploitation since they wouldn’t have to spend hours physically drawing and putting the animation together. Or atleast not as many hours as with previous technologies.
Ai opens up animation to new voices, that wouldn’t be able to animate. That can type in specifically the details of their characters. If they even want them drawn in a specific art style, they can possibly put that in the prompt. This is almost starting to look like the Photoshop doomsday all over again. Yet now people be editing photos with no problem.
Ai lets more people create their dream animations, not less. If you support minorities having a chance at jobs, you should also support the potential for more animators having new opportunities to create animations.
Ai also means you might actually get more content of a show made in an official means. If you liked a show, you can literally make fan recreations with ai and bring new life into older favorite shows that been dead for decades.
vdotgreen@lemm.ee 6 days ago
What a load of BS. Japan has only exploited it’s animators for as long as anime has existed. They just want to get rid of the artists and have the producers churn out as much slop as possible.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 6 days ago
I am NOT disagreeing with you about either of your statements.
With that said, AI does have a place in animation to ease the burden of animators. A big area for this is the tween frames, but if my understanding is correct they are already using AI for this.
Unfortunately, like we have seen in the video game industry, AI will be used for full replacement instead of as an assistant tool.
hitagi@ani.social 6 days ago
In my opinion, the cause of “the burden of animation” is being underpaid and overworked. If there were better laws that can address these issues, we wouldn’t need to resort to AI.
But for in-betweening, I assume you’re referring to something like CACANI but that’s a bit different from generative AI I think. It behaves more like 3DCG because the lines are vectors.