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Re:Style2Paints: AI colorization of images on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:51AM (#15372241)
> 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.

Re:Style2Paints: AI colorization of images on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:35AM (#15372199)
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.

Re:Style2Paints: AI colorization of images on Saturday September 30, 2017 @06:26AM (#15372179)
Yes, let's apply cultural standards universally, surely this will make the world a better place. At least professional artists know how to avoid offending anyone's tastes.

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