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In the next five years all high cost productions are going to be replaced by a neural style transfer from the child scribbles. I am only half-joking.
by mynegation 4y ago
In the next five years all high cost productions are going to be replaced by a neural style transfer from the child scribbles. I am only half-joking.
- ryandrake 4y agoThe next five years is going to be a wild ride for all of visual media. Studios need to buckle up.
- idiocrat 4y agoIt will be a very boring over-saturated world, where everything is possible and everything is superficial.
- Sabinus 4y agoCheck out a lot of children's shows nowadays, just soulless 3D animation.
- dorkwood 4y agoI feel like this is going to result in a generation of adults with absolutely awful taste. Imagine if your favourite childhood show was, like, a poorly animated spiderman-driving-a-car video on YouTube.
- Barrin92 4y agoevery generation of adults has absolutely awful taste in general. There's a reason the longest running shows on TV are telenovelas. Or my personal favorite, the readers vs board modern library top 100 books (https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0048/55/1399297062273.png https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0048/55/1399297062273.png) People who grew up and want more out of culture will do what they always have done, which is look for alternative media.
- viraptor 4y agoA lot of my childhood shows were poorly animated (https://g.denik.cz/35/bd/jc-rumcajs0617_denik-320-16x9@2x.jpg https://g.denik.cz/35/bd/jc-rumcajs0617_denik-320-16x9@2x.jp...) or shot in stop motion with really simple elements. (http://fototeka.fn.org.pl/public/cache3/1-F-3092-5-1291x629.jpg http://fototeka.fn.org.pl/public/cache3/1-F-3092-5-1291x629....) Everyone who watched those is doing fine. Kids shows don't need to be art pieces - they're simple stories.
- seer-zig 4y agoI think it might have more to do with the actual content than the animation. A lot of today's trash on youtube that parents leave their kids watch unattended is dangerous, and seems to promote ADD. Thankfully, there are still youtube channels with shows and cartoons we grew up with, so parents can show those to their kids instead of today's trash.
- mherdeg 4y agoThe animation in Paw Patrol is kind of awful. Compare with Wonder Pets and it's night and day.
- socialismisok 4y agoPlus, at least one of those pups is a class traitor! (It's a joke.)
- thih9 4y agoThanks, I knew nothing about these shows, I just watched 5 minutes of each and it was an experience. Wonder Pets seemed relaxing and amusing to me; there was a song “you have to la-la-la-la-love yourself”. Paw Patrol seemed high dopamine action; with pets either hustling hard to do what a human told them to do, or providing comic relief.
- personalidea 4y agoTo be fair, there was a good amount of soulless, cheap animation back in the 80s and 90s too. Human creativity is still fine and kicking, it’s just that the curator/gatekeeper were removed, so parents are left on their own to select shows for their kids. Which sucks if your parents can’t be bothered.
- V__ 4y agoAt the same time, there are some absolute gems which I would have loved as a child. Bluey is a work of art, from the animation and stories to the unique score for each episode. The episode "Sleepytime" was the 2nd highest rated tv episode after BBs Ozymandias. Puffin Rock, Trash Truck or Sea of Love also come to mind as great tv shows. There are even still new episodes of Shawn the Sheep coming out, which are hilarious. It's just harder to find high-quality content, when it's so cheap to produce 10x more garbage.
- colordrops 4y agoYou mean the entire 21st century so far?
- BiteCode_dev 4y agoMost movies already reuse a lot color tones, shots, lines, scripts and sound effects. I can't bear hearing the overused "sling" from a sword getting move one cm, or the "click" of a gun pointed in one direction. I hate the blue + yellow + actor face template for half movie posters. I get bored when I saw in the 80' the same "boy saves girl" cliche, then in 2000, "you are secretly the one, your destiny is saving the world", then now, "look they are all from a minority, how subversive!" AI is just going to industrialized copy/pasting in a industry that have created the concept way before we had GUI.
- rockemsockem 4y agoBased on your descriptions of those played out tropes I think you'll enjoy this "blockbuster movie trailer" template. https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A https://youtu.be/KAOdjqyG37A
- zshrdlu 4y agoYou are overlooking the fact that the same tools could be in the hands of ordinary people as well - like you. It might just be a future whose art you might enjoy.
- dr_dshiv 4y agoPersonal enjoyment is so cliche. Personalization will be doom. Only half joking. Arguably, the point of media is connection to the collective consciousness. But, something to be said about exploring the personal imagination.
- berkes 4y agoThe early web promised this too. "Everyone can be their own publisher.". We turned from notepad.exe to geocities then blogs. Now we have tiktok which is almost literally built around the premise of copying eachother. "Please like and subscribe and hit that notification bell" in each and every video about gardening, ancient history, movies or any passion. we have tweetstorms, cut-and-paste formatting on all social networks - linkedin being the most cringy IMO. The tools in the hands of ordinary people has proven to result in an infinite firehose of ordinary expression. Those ordinary people are reduced to copy-machines that reproduce what algorithms amplify.
- kristopolous 4y agowe could bring back mid-century UPA style cartoons (ex: https://youtu.be/brX5zlDoez4?t=49 https://youtu.be/brX5zlDoez4?t=49) whenever we want. Those technologies still exist. I'm not in animation but I assume there's still plenty of that content being made, it's just in its own subculture somewhere
- islon 4y agoSo... like a marvel movie.
- tomcatfish 4y agoThat's silly. The show's content is not going to be worse because you don't need a team of animators. Instead, think of "free easy animation" as a tool which lets writers start up an attempt solo. The "superficiality" is perfectly unrelated.
- simion314 4y agoBut we might get more indie movies, illustrated novels and lot more creative stuff.
- whateveracct 4y agoThe good stuff won't be. It's a better time than ever to actually have taste.
- jayd16 4y agoAll it takes is a fully choreographed, cut, and animated live action sequence as one of the inputs. /s
- thih9 4y agoOr an additional prompt: “fully choreographed, cut and animated sequence”.
- tiborsaas 4y ago...in the style of Quentin Tarantino
- rapnie 4y agoWay Hollywood works might just say "Blockbuster movie doing over $400 million at the box office" and it starts grinding through the pulp.
- thih9 4y agoIt’s not real time though. So at best you’d get a movie that would do $400M+ at the time the dataset has been assembled. If others are doing the same, the audience might get bored and prefer something fresh. Unless your AI takes all that into account.
- dkersten 4y agoSounds like the existing system of blockbuster movie production
- gpderetta 4y ago4k, trending on IMDB.
- tsomctl 4y agoEverything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
- 6stringmerc 4y agoHollywood tried that once, kind of, by letting a kid create a movie concept. It was called Monster Trucks. It did not change the industry.
- theGnuMe 4y agoAn app that takes kid drawings and turns them into something would be cool.
- lm28469 4y agoNetflix &co already did that, the average quality of movies/shows is absolute garbage and there aren't more masterpieces than 20 years ago
- Jemm 4y agoStraight from storyboards more likely