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Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpar

by rw2 6y ago

Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.

tyingq 6y ago
On the other hand, I expect a rash of poorly done "explainer" type videos coming.
- jjeaff 6y ago
  Heh, literally my first thought when I saw the sample gifs was that I could use this to make some explainer videos. And yes, they would probably end up looking poorly done.
nkozyra 6y ago
I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html
- egypturnash 6y ago
  Since 2015, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Character_Animator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Character_Animator They won an Emmy for it this year, their post about it (https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator-receives-emmy-award-for-technology-and-engineering/ https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator-receives-...) notes that it was used for a live broadcast of the Simpsons, and a Showtime series called "Our Cartoon President" (https://www.sho.com/our-cartoon-president https://www.sho.com/our-cartoon-president).
- dharma1 6y ago
  Adobe Character Animator is not bad, has skeletal rigging and tracks mouth but doesn't do deformations like this one
- rw2 6y ago
  Good to know, it's a awesome feature I am surprised I don't see more successful shows made with this on reddit and youtube
  - jjeaff 6y ago
    That's because the animation is very much the least important part of a successful show. It's the writing and voice acting. South Park is a great example of this. It's successful because it is funny and edgy. The animation could have gone a lot of different ways and had similar success I think.
    - rw2 6y ago
      I think fundraising is the hardest part of a project, especially for creatives. If a group of writers can wrangle some amateur voice actors to work, (Which I think would be the lowest paid actors) it should be easy to get a project up.
dagmx 6y ago
The industry has had several tools like this for year’s. it can be useful but it hasn’t caught on in the past
- coderesearch 6y ago
  please give us urls to other open source tools the industry uses for this kind of work, thank you very much.
  - DavidVoid 6y ago
    https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-khara-moving-to-blender/ https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k... Blender. Performance capture is used just like it is in computer games but the 3D objects are shaded differently to give them a more 2D look.
jelling 6y ago
This is something I have been tracking for a few years now. If anyone is interested please DM me.

by rw2 6y ago

tyingq 6y ago

On the other hand, I expect a rash of poorly done "explainer" type videos coming.

jjeaff 6y ago
Heh, literally my first thought when I saw the sample gifs was that I could use this to make some explainer videos. And yes, they would probably end up looking poorly done.

nkozyra 6y ago

I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html

egypturnash 6y ago
Since 2015, according to Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Character_Animator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Character_Animator They won an Emmy for it this year, their post about it (https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator-receives-emmy-award-for-technology-and-engineering/ https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-character-animator-receives-...) notes that it was used for a live broadcast of the Simpsons, and a Showtime series called "Our Cartoon President" (https://www.sho.com/our-cartoon-president https://www.sho.com/our-cartoon-president).
dharma1 6y ago
Adobe Character Animator is not bad, has skeletal rigging and tracks mouth but doesn't do deformations like this one
rw2 6y ago
Good to know, it's a awesome feature I am surprised I don't see more successful shows made with this on reddit and youtube
- jjeaff 6y ago
  That's because the animation is very much the least important part of a successful show. It's the writing and voice acting. South Park is a great example of this. It's successful because it is funny and edgy. The animation could have gone a lot of different ways and had similar success I think.
  - rw2 6y ago
    I think fundraising is the hardest part of a project, especially for creatives. If a group of writers can wrangle some amateur voice actors to work, (Which I think would be the lowest paid actors) it should be easy to get a project up.

dagmx 6y ago

The industry has had several tools like this for year’s. it can be useful but it hasn’t caught on in the past

coderesearch 6y ago
please give us urls to other open source tools the industry uses for this kind of work, thank you very much.
- DavidVoid 6y ago
  https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-khara-moving-to-blender/ https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k... Blender. Performance capture is used just like it is in computer games but the 3D objects are shaded differently to give them a more 2D look.

jelling 6y ago

This is something I have been tracking for a few years now. If anyone is interested please DM me.