After seeing how someone used Seedance 2.0 to improve a famously bad anime scene (check the post here), it got me thinking: if in the near future you can just feed a rough storyboard or even a CBR file to an AI and get a fully animated episode, what’s the point of the traditional animation pipeline?
Either the industry adopts these tools en masse, or we’ll have a situation where the “fan-made” AI version of a show drops online before the official one is even finished. And if studios do use AI, how will the final product be any different from the countless fan remasters flooding the web? Feels like the whole definition of “official” animation is about to get very blurry.
Given by how repulsed animators like Miyazaki was when AI was able to replicate Studio Ghibli’s style, there may be some resistances in getting AI implemented into anime shows and movies. CGI already was barely accepted and you’ll find watchers who just don’t even like CGI being implemented.
I think animators will get screwed, but the corporate structures that own IPs will get even wealthier as they can just hire a very small handful of people to come up with a story and then pump out animations “instantly.”
And then the shape of the industry itself will change. They might start developing massive numbers of IPs in parallel to find the most popular ones, for example.
If the stories themselves can be AI generated, the Black Mirror thing where they’re made up on demand for a specific person might happen.
check the post here
I can’t think of a worse example for the utility of using AI to improve animation than some slice of life bullshit. This just looked like someone wasted their time (or would have, if they were doing actual work) remaking scenes with equivalent quality animation. Honestly idk what’s even “famously bad” about the original
Studios definitely will use AI if it works. Animators are expensive.
I don’t think so. I think it will enable more people with good ideas to create stuff.
Okay, sure, but if your job is mostly drawing and not inventing…
I feel like it’s a continuation of what we’ve already seen with digital animation. You can do traditional ink animation, but no one does it any more because digital is so much cheaper.