news culture ‘You should be ashamed’: This AI-made cartoon is screwed up by the pros!
While artificial intelligence seems to be taking an increasingly important place in our daily lives in recent months, studio Corridor Digital has just created an anime featuring three AIs.
Video games, the world of dubbing, novels, series… Even if tomorrow we will not taste content generated by AIs on a daily basis, recent advances in this field seem to paint a future in which artificial intelligences will play a very important place . . One of the best known, ChatGPT, can give you a detailed answer – with believable wording – on any topic, and all you have to do is type keywords into “MidJourney” to get a convincing picture of the output! In short, the uses are many: so why not create an anime with these tools?
Revolutionary technology?
While it’s not the first time we’ve talked about anime powered by AI, the latest project from studio Corridor Digital (known for viral videos) is making waves on the networks. Thanks to three software – Stable Diffusion | Dreambooth, similar to MidJourney, and editing software Davinci Resolve – The team developed the short animated film Rock, Paper, Scissors revealing the battle of 2 brothers with rocks, paper, scissors! Posted on February 26th: There are over 1.6 million views.
“Anyone can create an animated film using this revolutionary technique,” Corridor Studio comments in the description of its YouTube video. The team even put together an hour-long – step-by-step – tutorial available on their website official page (It’s paid, but there’s a two-week free trial). In another Contents, titled “Have We Changed Animation Forever?”, one of the team members explains that he found “a new way of animation, of transforming reality into a cartoon.” Basically, Corridor Digital used AI to transform real images into animated images.
(Our animation technique, editor’s note) is another step towards true creative freedom – Corridor Digital, via the technology used in Rock, Paper, Scissors
“You should be ashamed”
Except that not everyone is so enthusiastic. In a Twitter post seen by more than three hundred thousand people, Luke Plunkett, a journalist at Kotaku, claims that rock, paper, scissors is like, to put it politely, “like nothing” | and that everyone involved in the project should feel “embarrassed”… In response to this post, Jason Connelle, creative director of Ghost of Tsushima, follows suit. According to him, the AI movie isn’t incredible, but it’s ‘cheap as can be’.
On closer inspection, one has to say that Corridor Digital’s result is not yet perfect. The lines of the drawing “shift” regularly with the current facial expression, transitions are clearly not error-free. In short, it’s promising, but there’s still work to be done! The project clearly crystallizes fears about the rise of AI in cultural objects. Will we like 100% virtual cartoons in the future? We will see.
