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Midjourney founder David Holz has previously admitted that his product is “a big scrape of the internet” and that he has stolen hundreds of millions of images without permission from rightsholders.
Over two dozen entertainment unions in Europe and North America are calling for action to prevent artificial intelligence from taking over the animation industry.
The head of Lionsgate claims that making an anime feature is as simple as telling an AI software, “Do it in anime.”
The Montreal-based animation studio, known for projects like ‘The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie’ and ‘The Bob’s Burgers Movie,’ is dipping its toes into AI-assisted production.
Company co-founder Andrew Carr speaks about Cartwheel, a new AI animation tool developed with the help of Pixar animators and backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
Money continues to flow into tech startups that have their sights set on eliminating every single last animation artist.
The company, which says its software will do for animation what “the iPhone did for photography,” also announced the hiring of two veteran Pixar animators.
The company wants to make the process of creating animation less expensive and complex.
The Scottish studio is among the few in our industry that is being transparent about its usage of AI.
Researchers are touting these new AI-generated Tom & Jerry experiments as examples of how they can generate longer and more consistent AI video.
Today we try to make some sense of recent developments in the animation world including the growing proliferation of generative AI slop and recent animation/vfx studio closures.
“TVPaint Animation was made as a traditional animation tool,” the developer said in a statement. “As such, our goals will always be directed toward hand-drawn animation.”
The new film is a collaboration with the band The Sound of Money and AI artist Isabel Kohlhagen.
Said Docter, ” I think it’s a great tool for people who know how to use it to say something about the human experience.”
Developer Lost Marble says “this will continue to be our position, at least until potential ethical and legal issues are resolved in a way that does not harm artists.”
Sixte de Vauplane, co-founder of Animaj, explains his new technology and how animation can benefit from new generative AI pipelines that serve artists.
The first six tools help to create masks, upscale and extend backgrounds, and aid with the time-consuming scene setup process.
Post-acquisition, DNEG’s Brahma group will employ over 800 engineers and creative technologists.
Azaria is anxious about the future, but believes his job is safe for the immediate future.
“Without AI, the work would take a minimum of one week to ten days. Using AI, it is about four of five hours,” says the studio’s design director.