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lol You cared enough to comment and accuse me of shoveling a random script in an AI generator without any adjustments, but now suddenly you don't care. I even had Chatgpt write prompts so I can try to get something closer to what I wanted and it still couldn't even figure out which character had to say which line. The reason I have so much footage is because I kept trying over and over to get something close to my script. I provided storyboard stills, character designs, character descriptions and the results in the video are what I got.

If that's all I'm doing and you know how to do it better, you can see my intended animated short which I included in the video. Re-create an improved version of my animated short using AI and I'll share the comparison on my channel. I'll be waiting.

The hand drawn version isn't rotoscoped. It's heavily referenced frame by frame, but to rotoscope tall lanky characters with such different proportions to my short, stocky, big head, small shouldered character would be pretty impossible, without it looking like crap.

haha thank you! Appreciate it!

I'm not anti Ai. I have been making my own animation and animated shorts since early 2000 and would love to have a tool that can help me do even more. Which is why I'm also not against testing it out, but so far I just haven't seen any results I like (except when it does live action) My biggest argument with these videos is against the idea that human animators will be replaced.

Thanks for that link. I'm definitely open to using it as a tool. I even made a follow up video to my first one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faiD8w2rul4 where I tested out giving AI a rough animated test and a final clean up to see if it can clean it up using the final as reference. Then I tried giving it a fully tied down animation to see if it can finalize it with clean up and color. I didn't get any good results but can definitely see potential in that area with a few more upgrades to AI.

haha thanks!

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I agree, I love the idea of a battle between animator and Ai but the amount of time it would take me to animate versus Ai it just wouldn't work. In the speed department Ai wins, no contest.

Yeah from the 2 I used Runway seemed to put out better clips

haha yes I am. Thank you! I did anohter version where I tested out cleaning up and coloring my animation using Ai. I got better results with that and definitely see potential in Ai becoming a tool that helps speed up the back end of animation.

nice way out of backing up your argument lol

They still look stiff, and have no weight. They are better than my AI samples but still not even close to hand drawn animation by actual animators.

Storyboarded/created by George Kaprielian

Created by George Kaprielian

Wow, thank you for that. You have no idea how much it means to hear that. I've only experienced my work from behind the scenes and had no idea they had that kind of effect on people. It's great to hear and makes all the time I put into them worth it.

Can't believe it's been over 20 years. I feel old lol

Haha Sweet Mother Of Vartan! That was the first time Harut made his appearance.

Oh yeah? I didn't even know my stuff is on Pinterest.

yup, Short for Harutyun. It was my grandfather's name.

Thank you!

No but it is referenced

Thank you, there’s plenty of work I do without using reference but there’s also a lot of times where I’ll use reference. Sometimes I’ll use reference as a starting point and go completely off into my own thing and sometimes I’ll rely heavily on reference. There’s plenty of videos showing even the old Disney masters working off live action references they filmed for each scene in their features. For most dance animation I rely heavily on reference.

Thank you!

The dialogue and acting part is rigged (my first time in Toonboom Harmony) but the dance is hand-drawn frame by frame

I use reference but no I don’t rotoscope

Hahaha

Nice! There’s a mix of old and newer stuff in there. I’ll try to have some new stuff out if I can find the time

Appreciate it thank you! I have some new ones written and am hoping to get some more out.

I think they mean paper. Once they see a screen they think it's a different process. The only difference is not having to shoot each frame.

One time I was showing someone my animation, in rough pencil test stage. I was flipping through the drawings frame by frame and showing the drawings moving, and showing them how I use a wacom pen to draw directly on the screen. After watching all that, their question was "how long would this have taken you if it was frame by frame hand drawn?" lol

This is what I imagine people think animators do for a living — based on some of the wild animation requests I get (like animating a full music video or an entire show… solo), or the kinds of comments I hear from people outside the industry when they ask what I do. Someone once jokingly asked if I draw in crayons all day. So… I made this.

yup, that was him :)

Thanks! I had forgotten I posted it here and just saw all the notifications. Glad people are liking it!

Yeah the show is primarily in Flash, but the sections I animated are hand drawn. (Nice! In animation?)

Thanks. Me too!

Yeah it was a good reason. We looked at the original Roadrunner shorts and they basically never cheated those actions with dust clouds or anything. If he was painting a wall they would show him actually painting the wall. So I changed it to match the originals.

Thanks! The credit for that goes to the storyboard artists. I just animated it and tried to match the original Chuck Jones cartoons best I could.

Thank you! This is just a tiny clip. The full thing I animated is actually 1 minute and 20 seconds long. For anyone who wants to check out the full thing I have the final clean up and color here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CIjFNP0oHY and also the pencil test version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQUh7m8msxU

Yeah it’s from a book with a collection of Armenian folktales

Nice! Thank you.

haha thank you. Will do!

Yes WB

thank you!

I might do a few more sections but probably not the whole thing.

I hope so

I hope with every cell in my body that you are right

Amen, I don’t know what it is with the Armenian community but those of us who are against trump and what he represents seem to be outnumbered 10 to 1.

I gave my drawing to AI and gave it the prompt to animate a dance. This funny looking dance is what I got back. I know AI is currently at the worst it’s ever going to be and is only going to get better but for now it gave me a good laugh 😂 What do you think of AI Animation and it's future in Animation?

They weren't actually old men when Walt Disney started referring to them as his nine old men. They were in their 20 and 30's. The term was a reference to Franklin D. Roosevelt's nickname for the nine Supreme Court justices.