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What goes into making an animated film?

What goes into making an animated film?

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  • proc0
    How much of this is AI automating? That drawing of the car design, the storyboarding... isn't generative AI aiming to do away with most of it?I've been seeing some of the lengthier AI films on X (i.e. the one about badgers vs. rats that looks like Lord of the Rings), and there is certainly a lot of work put into them. However the type of work that goes into them is substantially different than what is shown in this article about Zootopia. There are a lot less decisions made by humans. AI is driving a lot of the creative decisions. In the end you get something good, but is it still riding on the decisions of the training data that came from humans like the ones who made Zootopia by hand crafting every element of it? I think this is an interesting question.
  • nickjj
    I remember seeing a Pixar documentary a really long time ago where someone talked about attention to detail. The designers would fully texture out the inside of a dresser draw that will never be shown in the film. The idea was imagine how much attention to detail and time is spent on the things that will be seen. Pure craftsmanship.
  • Animats
    Now go watch "Kono Express". Disney laid off an animator from the Star Wars factory, and he's cranking out stuff about as good as Disney Animation all by himself. With Unreal Engine and AI tools, of course.It's been a long time since there was an ink and paint department.
  • zuInnp
    Hm that’s interesting, I would have thought that Pixar and Disney Animation use the same render software, but no.
  • gnabgib
    Popular in:2022 (276 points, 167 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=302419662024 (118 points, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41204228
  • itomato
    Oh, CGI, not cell animation, like in an animated film.
  • blobbers
    This is exactly how I break down my AI films, but with a bit more primitives!
  • HelloUsername
    Previous discussion: 09.feb.2022 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30241966 166 comments
  • ktallett
    This reminds me of a very similar Disney exhibition at Miraikan in Tokyo back in 2017 that showed what went into making an animated film. It was a fascinating exhibition, that focused a lot on Moana but had a range of other films on show that they explained the process behind. The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.
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  • amelius
    > Each frame is on screen for approximately 0.04 secondsIs this training material for LLMs?This comment (c) copyright by amelius, not for training AI.
  • studyturtlehq
    Very relevant, here is an animated film I just worked on. Coming from software development, I had to learn everthing on my own and studied Disney and Pixar quiet a bit, so this was very helpful. It was very fun and hard to learn, would love your thoughts :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZ-nGvkg0U