Similar work on art style transfer usually has yielded somewhat surreal shifting results when they applied it to videos even after adding some logic that stabilized things from frame to frame.

Plus this is far from perfect, it works best if you provide a lot of hinting and even then it produces results that may look pleasing enough but are not really close to what one has intended for a particular character design.

I would guess that it can be made good enough for some novelty videos but it's still far from professional production quality.

I tried Style2Paints on a simple animation I did a while back. No manual color hints. I just played a bit with the references and settings in the web interface and used the provided models. The input were uncolored outlines. Considering it has very little in common with the anime training set I think it looks promising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZixy1cXQPE

Interesting. It would be amazing if you could find the time, to elaborate, share some insights into this industry.

Specifically: What are 2-3 major companies that would profit? How does the current process work; do they make an entire uncolored scene and then color it? What do I have to google, to find example videos of uncolored animation? Can you ballpark how much it costs to color a 30min TV-Episode?

> What do I have to google, to find example videos of uncolored animation?

key animation, genga (原画)

uncolored: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/23064

finished: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/23126

> How does the current process work;

This depends a lot on the production process used. These days it's anything between hand drawn frames with digital coloring to completely digital processes using 2D vector graphics or 3D models.