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Hayao Miyazaki had a scathing critique of a team that created a neural network designed to draw/animate on its own. It’s worth noting because his main criticism
by rm_-rf_slash 9y ago
Hayao Miyazaki had a scathing critique of a team that created a neural network designed to draw/animate on its own. It’s worth noting because his main criticism is that the more we offload these techniques to machines, we lose an element of creativity in ourselves.
Videos only two minutes but even that little time of ripping into the team that made the NN is hard to watch.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/that-time-miyazaki-absolutely-shat-on-ai/ https://www.kotaku.com.au/2016/12/that-time-miyazaki-absolut...
- matte_black 9y agoI see no value in a machine that draws pictures like a human except to shovel monstrous quantities of mass produced crap to further starve the masses of any attention span. If the future of entertainment is plugging in a bunch of parameters and spitting out some optimal result that appeals to some demographic, a practice that we can almost see fully realized today except for the part where machines create all the content, then there will be no new entertainment worth consuming in the future. NN generated books, movies, shows, paintings, all worthless. It's the maximum viable version of youtube videos made for children that are cobbled together with a bunch of random assets, so that perhaps a baby will stay quiet and maybe click some ads.
- heyitsguay 9y agoThe future value of NNs for creative media is in human productivity enhancement, not in replacement. Speedier asset generation, probably new procedural content, new image filter techniques. Personally I'm very excited to see what humans will be able to do with all of our new tools.
- matte_black 9y agoNone of those things require NN.
- rm_-rf_slash 9y agoYou could set a scene on a “city street” or “small town street” or “country road” and have the NN make the setting without it having to be drawn by hand. After all, movie studios already do something to that effect. When I was in Rochester a few years back they were using a few streets to film action scenes for Spider-Man 3, which would have been far more expensive in New York and hardly anybody would have noticed the difference.
- kian 9y agoWhat about enabling humans who can't draw pictures or animate to still put their ideas into an attractive-enough visual form to tell a story? How many amazing stories are there out there right now that never get made because of the enormous cost in finding and retaining talented animators?
- matte_black 9y agoNot every story needs to be animated. Find a medium that lets you tell your story.
- rm_-rf_slash 9y agoI’d like to make a graphic novel but I can’t draw for shit. A combination of software and machine learning could help me do such a thing. But the plot, design, and everything directorial is still up to me.
- mkl 9y agoDon't let a lack of drawing skill hold you back. Try reading the web comic Schlock Mercenary [1]. A good writer who couldn't draw started making a comic anyway, and now he's a good artist too. [1] https://www.schlockmercenary.com https://www.schlockmercenary.com
- matte_black 9y agoJust pick up a pencil and start drawing. scan it up, add the text, start with what you have. this won't hurt a bit.
- lanius 9y agoYikes, isn't being this blunt extremely rare in Japanese culture? Miyazaki must've been pissed.