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Both Futurama and Family Guy sometimes use 3d rendering for vehicles for example, and render it in a cartoon looking style and composit it with flat 2d animatio

Both Futurama and Family Guy sometimes use 3d rendering for vehicles for example, and render it in a cartoon looking style and composit it with flat 2d animations. Maybe similar kind of things could be an application of this. Another possible use-case might be a game development studio developing a license game based on a 2d cartoon, but making the game 3d. They could use this as a tool for visualization while planning and developing, to iterate quickly and to reference how the original 2d could translate into 3d.

SiempreViernes 2y ago
Not really? In those examples the hand crafted 3d assets already exist, this thing could at best recreate the 3d geometries the show creators made themselves. That seems useful mainly for cloning someone else's work.
- codetrotter 2y ago
  “Similar kind of thing” meaning for another show that wants to do the same but who have not created the 3d assets yet. Team of 2d artists draw the desired vehicles for the cartoon from two or three angles. Software like this makes a usable 3d model of it.
  - jsheard 2y ago
    If you were making 2D drawings with the intent of turning them into a 3D model then you would draw them to be coherent in 3D in the first place. The whole novelty of the research in the OP is that they're trying to reconstruct drawings that were never intended to make realistic sense in 3D. Even if AI has a place in the 2D to 3D part of a pipeline, surely you'd still want the 2D artwork be unambigously representative of what the 3D asset should look like, rather than providing self-contradictory input data and praying that the AI can magically make it make sense.
    - codetrotter 2y ago
      True. For the second use-case I mentioned it still applies though. Where a studio is making a licensed 3d game based on an existing 2d cartoon.
  - superb_dev 2y ago
    A show that's being doing purely 2d art can't just integrate the 3d art in their pipeline on a whim. If they can, they probably already have the skills to make the model outright.

SiempreViernes 2y ago

Not really? In those examples the hand crafted 3d assets already exist, this thing could at best recreate the 3d geometries the show creators made themselves. That seems useful mainly for cloning someone else's work.

codetrotter 2y ago
“Similar kind of thing” meaning for another show that wants to do the same but who have not created the 3d assets yet. Team of 2d artists draw the desired vehicles for the cartoon from two or three angles. Software like this makes a usable 3d model of it.
- jsheard 2y ago
  If you were making 2D drawings with the intent of turning them into a 3D model then you would draw them to be coherent in 3D in the first place. The whole novelty of the research in the OP is that they're trying to reconstruct drawings that were never intended to make realistic sense in 3D. Even if AI has a place in the 2D to 3D part of a pipeline, surely you'd still want the 2D artwork be unambigously representative of what the 3D asset should look like, rather than providing self-contradictory input data and praying that the AI can magically make it make sense.
  - codetrotter 2y ago
    True. For the second use-case I mentioned it still applies though. Where a studio is making a licensed 3d game based on an existing 2d cartoon.
- superb_dev 2y ago
  A show that's being doing purely 2d art can't just integrate the 3d art in their pipeline on a whim. If they can, they probably already have the skills to make the model outright.