[HN Gopher] An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings
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An open source AI tool to animate children's drawings
Author : snork_alt
Score : 259 points
Date : 2023-04-14 04:59 UTC (18 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| yieldcrv wrote:
| reminder to concerned artists: we would have never commissioned
| you to do this
| seesawtron wrote:
| Follow the discussion here:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35561203
| bombcar wrote:
| You could do live-action animated Teen Girl Squad with this ...
| forgingahead wrote:
| Amazing work! Someone is probably already working on porting it
| to work as an extension on Stable Diffusion webui.
| mrieck wrote:
| Yeah, haven't tested it but I assume this would work for
| realistic cartoon/cgi characters?
|
| Maybe the researchers didn't want to freak out anyone who does
| 2D animation? "Hey everyone, look at this toy we made that
| would never be used to animate anything but toy doodles. No
| one's 2D animation jobs are being replaced here - this project
| would never do that!"
| thrashh wrote:
| This doesn't look like AI.
|
| This looks like an algorithm like how hash map is an
| algorithm.
|
| It's also being presented at SIGGRAPH which further makes me
| think it's just an algorithm to map motion capture data to a
| 2D image. We can already map motion capture data to a 3D
| model.
| mrieck wrote:
| Yeah I didn't read through it earlier. Seems like there are
| 3 parts from my understanding. You need some motion capture
| service like Rokoko/DeepMotion to create BVH files
| describing the movement from a video. The algorithm this
| guy created animates/renders by taking the BVH and an
| annotation file from the drawing. But the project did
| "train a drawn humanoid figure detector and pose estimator
| and provided scripts to automatically generate annotation
| files from the model predictions" so that part does have
| machine learning.
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| I would love to use this for my old animation website
| https://www.superanimo.com/ But due to the AI boom I have
| tons of work to do on my other projects, so I can't sink
| time into modernizing my crappy animation site.
| lancesells wrote:
| No animator is looking at those examples and being worried.
| It's interesting for sure but I would put it on the most
| bottom tier of animation.
| biggerChris wrote:
| [dead]
| dhosek wrote:
| The bottom tier of animation is still pretty big. You
| apparently are too young to remember what a lot of
| animation was like in the 70s and 80s.
| mensetmanusman wrote:
| Is it like how typists were the bottom tier of office
| work?
| ecshafer wrote:
| Look at what AI generated images were like a year or two
| ago. They were mostly abstract, dream like images that
| were cool but not usable. They have improved 1000x in a
| year. Bottom tier animation from cartoon images now,
| could be seriously impressive in a few short years.
| summarity wrote:
| Very cool, yet all I can think of is DoodleBob.
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