Right now I think we're getting the worst end of AI, where it's convincing enough on the surface to blow up social media, but not really practical enough for a big improvement in production.
There is a (bright?) future where a single person will be able to make a complete film using these tools. I don't know what it'll be like when there's a thousand or ten thousand new shows released every year but it sounds like we will live in interesting times.
My worry is that the best tools will remain proprietary and lawfare will be used to remove the open source alternatives.
Some people think that the current tech will cap out and never really be useful - I think this is cope. The capabilities are clearly already there, it's just a matter of controlling them.
It is unnerving for sure - especially when I go to deviantArt or rule34 or even google images and the entire page is destroyed with ai garbo. I've said this before but that's why I feel the need to mess with it, because I need to understand the threat and how to use it.
Oh I guess my other big worry is that we'll enter a completely post-fact world and it'll be impossible to find a verifiably real image of anything. Every book will be rewritten and every image repainted, all recently recorded history will be in doubt, etc.
It's a shame this is a "zero-skill user" tool as you called it. Definitely one of the best looking ones so far, AI often has a hard time keeping the iris / pupil consistent but it looks decent here! The hair bounces slightly and the blinking looks natural! I know the reason it looks good is because its barely moving the image, there is still a long way to go for tools to properly realize 2D images in a 3D space.
But I can see some uses for some of these tools now, you could add blinking eyes, animated hot breath, background weather conditions, any small thing that can flourish static images.
I am definitely not thrilled about the future of AI generation, I have a feeling it could get pretty dystopian. I am however much more excited for how these tools can ENHANCE art rather than how they can replace it.
That is MUCH better, though her face goes from something fairly close to your usual style to something more "conventionally" pretty. Still, imminently fuckable.
My favorite of the bunch, the textures and face came out well! But maybe it's the darker colors hiding some anomalies. (Besides her cleavage coming right up to her neck lol)
Nudes of Alison in a cup of coffee has legs; I'm thinking a spinoff comic, cameos, jingles, brand deals, advertisements, heck put her nude in any liquid foodstuffs and she'll be a star! 5-10 years we'll see it go mainstream, HBO television, a whole new cinematic universe baby, that's my dream.
Oooooo! I wonder how Alison got this small! Maybe mistress shrunk her to teach her a lesson? Maybe that's how she ended up in the Tinkerbell outfit after her "candy" clothes dissolved?
The face holds excellently -- as YQN said, a marked improvement over some of the others you've tried. The dress, on the other hand, must be infused with Demonic sex magic since it varies wildly from frame to frame!
This is a result from Krea AI image-to-video. It is implemented as web application where you can upload keyframes and prompts on a timeline. I used these two images as keyframes:
It's eye catching and very smooth (at least in the face), but it does not follow the original keyframes or style very strongly. I think this could be tweaked to get better results, but my "3 minutes" of free trial video generation got used up in 20 seconds, and that doesn't exactly encourage me to purchase more time.
Having a timeline with keyframes is a step in the right direction, but the hard push towards content control and monetization seems premature for something that's not really cut out for professional use.
Oooooo! I wonder how Alison got this small! Maybe mistress shrunk her to teach her a lesson? Maybe that's how she ended up in the Tinkerbell outfit after her "candy" clothes dissolved?
Oooooo! I wonder how Alison got this small! Maybe mistress shrunk her to teach her a lesson? Maybe that's how she ended up in the Tinkerbell outfit after her "candy" clothes dissolved?
This is a click-through comic with many panels and animation effects. It's effectively a subchapter of the story.
The images directly after this are the static images for the first subchapter. Like a CG set for a h-game. I'm not entirely sure how to organize everything.
I just wanna say that I love that we're getting daily updates now!! I know that we can't expect this to last forever, but I'm addicted to your content; so, when I get my fix met every day, and not just twice or thrice a week, it's really kool!!
I mean, yeah, I could talk about all the things that are weird about this, but... who the fuck cares? Good, ethical use of these programs could do a LOT for the animation industry without harming the jobs of animators. Stuff still needs to be drawn and adjusted. Perhaps just with less tedium.
I think it's a good thing you're experimenting with this. Though, since I'm not part of the art community, I mostly say that because it seems to be a thing you're passionate about. I hope you find ways to use these tools to make things more fun for you.
Well prepare to sit wrong because I have tried several image-to-video AIs I'll be posting the results and my thoughts this week.
The goal isn't to make the best finished work right off the bat, but to test the technology and see what it can do - good and bad. Part of learning a new tool.
Forgive the meme. I have spent the last several weeks battling the four horsemen of linux, apache, mysql, and php to merely hold my ground against the inevitable tide of entropy. Although it does seem faster. Enjoy continuing to exist.
I can't imagine how your entry doesn't win this contest -- this "offering" of yours seems like a benchmark-setter to me!
You've really outdone yourself SM, and you and your collaborators have given them the absolutely best work you could've possibly given, and it can't possibly be topped!!
I follow a number of other TGTF artists besides you, but most of them tend to predominantly, if not exclusively, with already existing characters (whether or not their TG counterpart/persona is canon in their particular fictional universe); whereas, those like yourself whose work focuses predominantly (almost exclusively, with respect to yourself) on original characters are quite rare. Amongst that smaller latter contingent, there's really only half a handful whose artistic caliber is close to yours. Most rely very heavily, if not entirely, on AI-rendering. While you have explored AI-rendering, you tend to use it only to compliment pre-existing pieces that you rendered yourself as opposed to using it as your primary means of rendering your art
What I love about this sequence is that I can tell how hard she's getting fucked by how his thrusts are making her super-busty tits rock around on her chest!!!
There is a (bright?) future where a single person will be able to make a complete film using these tools. I don't know what it'll be like when there's a thousand or ten thousand new shows released every year but it sounds like we will live in interesting times.
My worry is that the best tools will remain proprietary and lawfare will be used to remove the open source alternatives.
Some people think that the current tech will cap out and never really be useful - I think this is cope. The capabilities are clearly already there, it's just a matter of controlling them.
It is unnerving for sure - especially when I go to deviantArt or rule34 or even google images and the entire page is destroyed with ai garbo. I've said this before but that's why I feel the need to mess with it, because I need to understand the threat and how to use it.
Oh I guess my other big worry is that we'll enter a completely post-fact world and it'll be impossible to find a verifiably real image of anything. Every book will be rewritten and every image repainted, all recently recorded history will be in doubt, etc.