AI Generated Videos Just Changed Animation Forever? 

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Worst case scenario question for you: assuming AI "fixes" all of these inconsistencies that you're pointing out. What careers can we shift our skillsets towards? I don't feel there are many things that share similar workflows... I'm so worried I'm just going to be replaced by higher ups who do NOT care about these inconsistencies. I also train people, similarly to how you do with Animators Journey. I'm always so scared of helping people enter this industry at this time.

Why don’t they use AI for boring stupid shit that nobody wants to do? Like doing groceries, accounting work, cleaning the house, doing laundry, so we have more time for fun things like being creative, making music and art? Why are they taking away the one thing that has real value in life? Music, art, writing.

I don't think the problem is for the professionnals, yet, the problem is the public which has no clue how much work those kind of shots can be. You can work for months on a single project, share it on twitter etc and yet, any random writting 2 words would have more reach because he can do 10 of those things per hour which is favorable for algorithms. And since public doesn't care about the work input, it creates a very touch gap to beat :/ The new social media artists are pretty much going to be words spammers and they might get filthy rich from it ahah As for the animators in the industry, we will be safe for a while, untill you can add details in the prompt as you go or, even worse, when we'll have addons for Maya, blender etc and you'll be able to generate an animation or poses with single promps, in the future i'm pretty sure animators are going to because keyframe cleaners ahah It goes the same for character artists etc, ofc, might even be worse for them, what a sad time to be an artist in

As a student animator, this stuff with AI being able to do all this breaks my heart. 😔😔 It’s also really scary it could mean more redundancy in jobs.

It will all come down to whether these works & designs can be copyrighted, and they cannot, it's a whole legal cluster-bomb. No client will sign off on something they will not be able to own outright. At most it will be a vis dev tool, the noise that is being made is like NFT's all over again - if you can't actually own it, it's worthless in the end. AI tools will come into the pipeline but for things like crowd sequences, but we've been using simulation tools in 3D software for years and they've always been progressing.

openai and wonderstudios are actually pacing up with precision, if some artists to be replaced by engineers in the studios who can be a prompt engineer? an creative artist or someone who understands programming/machine learning? will the creative side end with studios putting more focus on technical side ?

At 5.55, the weird creature seems to lose one (or maybe more) leg every now and then.

You mentioned exactly what I havent heard much people say yet but that i was wondering: what about taking small notes haha. I hope that's Farrr in the future but its scary how fast it evolves. In the meantime i hope we keep our jobs lol! -- I just found your channel, awesome stuff man!!

i think its very close minded to just think of this as "will this replace jobs" if this gets too good, this can quite literally endanger lives, and I'm sure if governments weren't in the middle of a cold war right now, they would all hold emergency meetings about this. for context, im a working 3D artist who also dabbled in stable diffusion for a few months and also used GPT to help me write scripts for maya, so im not a member of the "AI is bad" bandwagon, but im struggling to answer the question of "why do we need this?"

I think you're correct in saying it has a place for individuals projects, like RU-vid, I've already noticed on at least one channel, TheWhyFiles, the use of motion AI. I think, over all, based on what you have to say this is more likely to be used for conceptualizing projects, even then it could be used as a tool to indicate the direction concept artists should go, but I don't see it being anything more than just another tool to assist the artists. Maybe at first studio heads will over estimate its abilities and there will be a bit of a shake up in the industry, but after the numerous flops that'll come out of it they'll realize they still need the artists

The kangaroo loses fur on his right hand.

I'm genuinely concerned about my freelance career as a VFX Artist. Currently I primarily use Blender and I've recently started learning Maya through your tutorials on Skillshare. But I feel that my career might be at risk and this has somewhat demotivated me from further learning. Consequently I'm contemplating investing in a new machine to undertake projects related to architectural visualization and realtime visualizations using tools like Embergen and Unreal Engine. I'm optimistic that there might still be opportunities available if the industry completely rejects this technology.

This actually comforted me in a way. Thanks for talking about this, and calming me basically. Haha

If you look closely at the fingers of the oter, they look really strange

Humans will always find a way to create something uniquely different than everything else, including whatever is going to be produced by AI in the future. And too many people right now are underestimating that.

The thing with this approach is that at first it might seem efficient but leaving it to the AI to complete shots without a way to break it down and art direct at that level it seems like a waste. Also what exactly is the price for simulation and rendering time for these shots? And lastly there still the uncannyness that always seems to be there with AI generated visuals. When compared to art one finds on places like Art Station there is no comparison in my view.

I don't think it will affect traditional animators or designers much. If you look carefully, the market for animators or 3D artists is pretty saturated. As an animator, without any AI, it's tough to find a job as it is. So, with AI it will remain the same. The folks who are using AI right now to create content, didn't even hire professionals before AI.

I really hope movies don't get reduced to making different type of prompts. It makes more sense for ai tools like cassaduer to work with animators instead of replace them

Honestly, theyve probably already fixed or know how to fix these problems behind closed doors

I think self inflicted un-aliving rates are gonna shoot up because of this technology.

The video you find the worst is one if my favourite examples, they shown. They used silhouette in their prompt and a story about a howling wolf, who want to find his pack. It shows the great understanding and variety of sora's Text2Video feature.

1:58 While not perfect currently the version of video AI you can run on your pc, has MotionCtrl which can kinda do what your saying. I would be shocked if OpenAi was not able to do something similar with Sora in way less then a full year. I can also see like how image generators have pose control that we might get something similar for the video generators at least for humanoid characters. I do agree it is no where near ready for professional use, and I would say even regular image generators are still not quite ready either.

Until AI get true agency, humans will remain in the loop of creativity and even then people will want to watch stuff that has human input. These tools will supercharge artists creativity not replace it and allow them to do more and eventually create entire movies by themselves. I'm already experimenting creating little shorts whereas previously creating just a single shot would be very time consuming. To get any precision out of these tools still requires a fair bit of effort even for still illustrations especially if your working to a clients brief. I still use a all my old school digital techniques but combine them with AI generation when I can to speed things up. Some things it does well and some things it doesn't but if there is a tool out there to speed up a work flow then i'm going to be using it.

Great perspective man, thanks for sharing.

Commercials will jump on this.

This thing will 100% wipe out jobs in a couple of years, anyone who's not seeing this is coping. Dall-E is already taking a toll on the graphic design industry. Those errors you pointed out will be fixed soon. 1 year ago the text to video softwares were literally garbage, the growth's being exponentially nuts.

Well good thing I’ve been learning 3D animation the last four years. 😂

Once this thing releases I'll judge if it's good or not

what a fkin joke. We are going to the end of times and people is hyped about it

time tuning ability? Will Smith was eating the damn spaghetti a year ago.

As a storyboard artist I have little use for this nor it can replace my job. I can use AI for reference and inspiration but I can't use them directly for production work. As of now AI can't tell stories in a narrative and has little abilities in cinematography.

Hard to know where it will all get to - will we become QA prompters, where our main job is to go through ai footage and point out the flaws, adding in corrective prompts? Maybe the lawyers will save us from this fate as their jobs are threatened too 😅

The simple one is also liked by many. So many of the simple animation channels get millions of views.

its not really good its just very detailed, it random as F***, interesting teconolgy but is not getting better in terms of "psychedelic randomness" is just getting more detailed

I think that very soon all the problems with hands and so will be fixed, and we will not know which video is real or AI. Notice that AI evolves weekly, it is way faster that we could never imagine. Very soon, they will join AI generated voice with this video generation, and will make lip sync… I bet that under 1 year you will not difference a real from AI video. Other thing is what you said, people will tend to find human made videos and animations. Maybe to feel they are not alone in a future and false world dominated by AI.

tbh it would be a different story if Disney today wasn't such a disappointment, because there has been an increasing sentiment that some people would rather see AI try to do what Disney hasn't been doing.

Kudos to you on that Little Mermaid flex! That's awesome.

To be fair, the movie Wish feels like it was created by AI and it was super disappointing, dumb and bland. so AI will never do a better job. it only can copy of what its already given. Its a niche tool to use. but don't think it will replace the majority. This is why professionals needs to have at several artistic skill set to be valuable, and this has been the norm decades ago.

I had used the "this is a tool" argument to several ppl in online discussions, (which I do think it will be a super capable tool) and they LOSE THEIR SH*T. It is like a trigger word, I don't know why the hell do they get so upset with it. I assume that the rational is that they don't see it as a tool but a direct threat.

i am afraid 😳

The viewing audience cares nothing about Maya or Houdini as animated filmmaking tools nor do they care about those expensive ARI Alexa film cameras used in Hollywood live shot productions. New technology does not always mean better visual entertainment. Look at unreal engine. anyone with a mid to high spec GPU can access UE5 for “filmmaking” yes? so where are all the GOOD UE5 feature length films from individuals?? The number of people with good ideas and the skills to execute them AND TELL COMPELLING STORIES is vanishingly small compared to the number of people who have access to the latest tech. AI film generation won’t change this except perhaps in genres where story does not matter at all ( Adult XXX rated crap)

I feel that this will be yet another great tool to use to make abstract and even some photorealistic references from

thats scary

This, of course, will affect the field of art and artists, but in regard to the field of programming AI generation, this does not affect it because it depends on the concepts related to the programmer. So, if the user does not have the programming concepts, they cannot accomplish that task. Therefore, the art community must protect itself in some way; otherwise, it will become extinct.

I think factoring in that we are at the embryonic stage of AI in animation I am certain that it will impact our industry dramatically the more it evolves. How that will look I can't predict. I imagine that people with maximum AI skills and minimal to zero animation skills (as we currently understand them ie implementation of the 12 principles, modelling, rigging etc) will be able to offer cheaper products with much quicker production times to clients seeking animation. And it will be hard to distinguish the difference in quality of human made vs AI made.

Once AI can mimic everything perfectly then it's the end game. It probably won't replace human completely but only a few lucky ones can keep their jobs(such as prompting and put things together), until an AI can communicate like a real human being. It's not the same concept of one tech being invented to eliminate current workforce then another line of job will be created, because AI can eventually do everything, it learns and evolves 24/7 cross fields. Imagine what we see right now is just the prototype not the real thing.

I think firstly freelance 3d animation jobs will end. Because they look cheap, on freelancing this kind of work is very popular.

Imagine you are an animation artist, you have to use your work to compete with not just 100 others, 100,000,000 AI videos created by normal people in a day, how can you stand out? Don't waste time on short works or daily art, put all your time on one work. that's only way you can win this and let people notice your work. let people see the process, and wish people will need your art for their commercial.

Surely this type of tool just promotes smaller studios (even solo work) to flourish? You're cutting the man hours down required for the tedious stuff, leaving more time for the uniquely creative stuff?

At 7:25 continuety in character designs between different shots? The robot changes. At one point he has a sort of backpack and in the next shot he doesn't. I wouldn't call that impressive. Like you said the training data is 100% stolen and in my personal opinion this AI bullshit should not even exist... it ONLY exists for people with no artistic skill to fuck over artists.

3d animation will die😂😂😂😂