AI Will Completely Dominate the Animation Industry in Less Than 5 Years

Re:AI Will Completely Dominate the Animation Industry in Les... by pessimizer on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:07PM (#33764506)

> These AI models will likely just become tools that automate or simplify existing animation workflows for larger projects.

The problem for artists is that the vast majority of the skills they learned as artists are useless when it comes to forming prompts. Assuming these models raise their quality and responsiveness a bit, and are surrounded with tools to fix expected problems (anatomy, symmetry, light, etc), I wouldn't expect a professional artist even with an aptitude for the tools to have much better results than an obsessed 14-year-old without a social life who's been playing around with them for a few months.

They're weird in that they in a way turn the process of creation over to the fans. It's like a declarative language for entertainment. While vision and creativity make artists stand out, the real skill for a artist is knowing how to use artists' tools. The real skill for the future painter probably is knowing how to use the AI tools.

People who typeset with metal had very few skills that transferred to InDesign.

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Re:AI Will Completely Dominate the Animation Industry in Les... by BeetleB on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:15PM (#33764577)

The difference between the artist and the 14 year old is the former has artistic vision and style. If a 14 year old can master prompt engineering, so can the artist.

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Re:AI Will Completely Dominate the Animation Industry in Les... by pessimizer on Sunday November 27, 2022 @12:39PM (#33764793)

I simply don't think that's the difference. The difference is that the artist knows a bunch of craft. Between the people who know a bunch of craft, we're attracted to ones with particular artistic visions and styles, but don't know that average 14 year olds don't have the same range of artistic vision and style.

Doesn't this artistic vision and style boil down to taste, anyway? Claiming that the skill of the artist and the skill of the editor is identical is obviously wrong.

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Re:AI Will Completely Dominate the Animation Industry in Les... by olivertaylor on Sunday November 27, 2022 @01:00PM (#33764986)

In my view the skill of the artist is to transfer an idea into the medium they work with, and if they work in a collaborative format that’s 50% of the job. It takes an enormous amount of skill to master the medium, and some mediums are easier than others. But the quality of the ideas they have matters a great deal. As does their ability to collaborate effectively.

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