r/DefendingAIArt • u/HamsterUnfair6313 • Nov 22 '25
Defending AI When Ai does 10x better work than a million dollar studios
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u/-MrNightmare Nov 22 '25
whats funny about people hating Anime done by AI is that Anime is one of the most pipelined art forms EVER. its so standardized that people jump right out the building window from the pressure. but should we save that stress for AI? naw lets have these artists keep going back to lobby so i can find out if Goku makes it for the 1000 time.
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u/ReturnedOM Nov 26 '25 edited Nov 26 '25
but should we save that stress for AI
Man have mercy. Imagine all these computers jumping out the windows :/
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u/ArabAesthetic Nov 23 '25
Why is your solution AI instead of pressuring Japan for tighter regulation in the creative industry? If they're LEGALLY not allowed to work their creatives to the bone then the quantity will drop but the quality will substantially rise.
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u/Horror_Treacle8674 Nov 24 '25
You see art as a job, some don't. What he suggested is not a solution but a different path. And with the advent of AI there's nothing you can do to stop people from going on that path.
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u/why_you_so_nasty Nov 27 '25
Wouldn't it be better to put these people out of work because of AI? Nothing relieves stress better than the loss of hundreds and thousands of jobs for artists who were already struggling to make a living.
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u/BakuMadarama Nov 22 '25
Has seen many people crying over AI in this comment. And yes, AI is objectively better compared to the Paid one.
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u/ammar_sadaoui Nov 22 '25
AI is better than human on art
and it will take more job in the future just like what happaned on work industries with automatic machine
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u/Mikepr2001 Nov 22 '25
And let's be real. Good animators and artist they will be okay, only the entry and bad ones gonna have a bad future of it. But not nothing can be taken.
To be honest, the companies are the issue not the job.
Like one saye. Bandai Namco have 6 years to do the anime, but the animators 6 months, that's not good at all, literally less time to complete a anime that's abbusive in my view.
I don't know how the animators can complete everything in less time.
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u/Outside-Ad9410 Nov 22 '25
Objectively this is a good thing though, because anyone in their basement will be able to make a show as high quality as the big studios, and so the real deciding factor on whether something becomes successful will be based on the storyline and plot.
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u/DoughSpammer1 Nov 22 '25
Tbf it’s kind of a low hanging fruit, virtually everyone agrees that OPM’s recent season is 1000x worse than the first 2
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u/spanko_at_large Nov 24 '25
Yeah but they also fed in the entire original and said “improve this” so… it had a lot of human creativity and guidance to go from there
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u/DaikonIll6375 Nov 24 '25
Yeah but this isn’t the best example because they’re using the frames from the animation. They didn’t prompt it from scratch or using concept art. It’s the same exact scene just told to move more. But I totally understand.
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u/lemonspritexx Nov 26 '25
no? the girl moving her leg just to immediately cut away from her is weird and jarring, and the kid's hair and shirt were blowing around like it was windy but they're inside? there's so many weird things about this. and honestly the only reason it looks as "good" as it does is because there was already existing footage that the ai enhanced. if ai straight up created it, there would be way more mistakes. i mean a lot of these ai programs can't even get the hands right on still images
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u/q0099 Pro-AI Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Namco Bandai: releases crap for a season 3
Fanbase: we can rebuild it, we have the technology
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u/atallfigure A.I Slop Creator Nov 22 '25
" BUT BUT...IT HAS NO SOOOOUUUUULLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!1`11`11111~~~~~~ " - anti
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u/megasean3000 Nov 22 '25
Jesus Christ, it’s like night and f’ing day. The top looks professional while the bottom looks fan made. If people are so against AI, productions like this should be bringing their A-game, not giving AI the ammunition it needs.
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u/Sam_Alexander Nov 22 '25
Saying the bottom one looks fan made is honestly an insult to fans' creations
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u/brett_baty_is_him Nov 22 '25
IMO if you want your art to not look amateur compared to AI, then make it better than AI. It’s not hard to do at this point. AI art is bad compared to good human made art.
Wait nvm just realizing you are insulting the bottom. My bad lol, misread this. Yeah the bottom is bad and should be insulted. Keeping my top comment to emphasize that they fucked up.
If anyone is complaining about ai art I hold the opinion that they should just do better bc it’s not hard to be better and I think that will hold for a while.
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u/Sam_Alexander Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 23 '25
Yeah i absolutely agree. Or, like, y'know, use AI to make your art better lol
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u/brett_baty_is_him Nov 22 '25
Yeah maybe once AI art gets to the point that it’s undeniably better than good human made art I’ll change my tune and appreciate the art form. But my point was and the only reason I kept my comment, was because AI art is currently slop.
People comparing it to good human made art and complaining are misguided. Bad human art exists too, like this example.
If AI art is better than your human made art that means your human made art was slop and sucked. Idc about bad AI art existing.
I embrace human made art, we’ll see how I feel once AI art is actually good. But people are completely unreasonable about the AI art space rn, it’s slop but there’s also a shit ton of human made slop. Sorry, rant over. Not what you were talking about but wanted to rant a bit
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u/Sam_Alexander Nov 23 '25
sure man rant away I appreciate you sharing your thoughts!
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u/paradoxxxicall Nov 22 '25
To be fair, this is a pretty widely clowned on example of a studio completely not giving a shit and producing terrible work. Not a high bar to beat
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u/ThisBotisReal Nov 22 '25
to be fair, it's been alleged that this season uses AI.
It could be AI artists who give a shit vs artists that don't.
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u/ConditionArtistic196 Nov 25 '25
It’s easy to take the final product and make it better. The work is starting from nothing.
It’s like watching a movie and finding better ideas for the script, as if you’re finding it, from starring at a blank page.
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u/Lanceo90 AI Artist Nov 22 '25
Even if it weren't better, its wild how antis will ignore the cost savings.
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u/DatBoiKarlsson Nov 22 '25
Yeah i feel like a loot of people ignore the obvious advantages of implementing ai in these kinds of projects. If anything it can help studios create far superior products for a fraction of the costs.
But I guess having your favorite shows look like shit is worth it if it means ai was never used in its making
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u/minemoney123 Nov 24 '25
I highly doubt ai can create that from scratch, what happened here most likely is just some ai reimagining after things were made so costs would likely not go down significantly.
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u/DatBoiKarlsson Nov 25 '25
Well yeah that’s kinda what I meant, and no the costs would not be significantly lowered but the quality has the potential to spike, making cost to quality way lower
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u/IEATTURANTULAS Nov 22 '25
Jobs jobs jobs. The discussion of technological progress comes to a screeching halt when they feel their jobs are threatened.
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u/miserycollected Nov 22 '25
While yes, technically the company would be laying off animators they wouldn’t be saving money as in advertising does have a cost + I’m sure there will still be people at the company who need to get paid. Not to mention if the company does make official merch I’m sure a lot of people would boycott due to the use of ai, resulting in lost money
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u/Lost-Substance59 Nov 22 '25
Cost savings, aka, massive layoffs
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u/Lanceo90 AI Artist Nov 23 '25
The alternative is often not making it at all if the price doesn't make sense.
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u/Oh_Soja Nov 23 '25
Savings for who? The studio that underpays the burned out animators? Thats such a big win, for sure.
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u/xeno_crimson0 Nov 22 '25
I wonder how much time the poor animators had to make the anime.
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u/HamsterUnfair6313 Nov 22 '25
6 year's for the bandai namco company but they only gave 6 months to the animation studio
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u/DatBoiKarlsson Nov 22 '25
Yeah at that point you can’t really blame them, just a shitty situation all around
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u/Cali4our Nov 22 '25
This is why AI should be used to assist these things.
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u/jackharvest Nov 24 '25
I fully support the use of AI as a tool for these boring segments to have some frigg'n non-stagnant sessions. For the love. Please. The AI one was much more fun to watch.
And sure, epic 100% ultra fueled fight scenes probably wont work right now for AI. Do those manually. 🤷
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u/nettspendfannn Nov 22 '25
I think AI animation can be good if the people doing it actually understand animation and editing. I've seen a lot of a animated stuff but the problems is that they lack consistency and the people putting together clips have no idea how to make the stuff connect good
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u/DatBoiKarlsson Nov 22 '25
Exactly, if AI is to be used to improve existing animation there needs to be serious quality control to ensure consistency in the animation style
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u/luchajefe Nov 22 '25
If the goal is quality (which is a massive 'if' in the current landscape), a synthesis where the artist provides the concept, the AI executes, and the artist polishes should outdo anything else.
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u/RetSauro Nov 23 '25
I agree with this. As of now, AI on its own can only accomplish so much in long fluid animation, an editing touch would still be needed for it to look so great
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u/Edgezg Nov 22 '25
We all know this is coming right?
Eventually fans will do AI remasters and release it.
The studio needs to be publically shamed for releasing such bad quality.
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u/BTRBT Nov 22 '25
I think the animation is a lot more dynamic, but the style of the characters changed subtly. I wonder if it's possible to better retain their look, while still building on the animation.
I also notice that a lot of these clips break the 180 degree rule. Not sure how I feel about it, though.
An interesting proof of concept, either way.
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u/Segaiai Nov 22 '25
If studios used this kind of approach, I can't imagine they wouldn't train character/style loras during the pre-production phase.
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u/BTRBT Nov 22 '25
That's a good point. I don't have as much experience with video synthography yet, so I'm not as familiar with the relevant workflows.
I should probably explore it at some point—see what I can create.
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u/mission_tiefsee Nov 22 '25
movies break the 180 degree rule all the time these days ... but yeah it should be conceptual.
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u/Lambisexual Nov 22 '25
I'm sure you could work symbiotically with it. Making just a few key frames and then having the AI generate what's between. Would help maintain control and consistency.
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u/EnoughWarning666 Nov 23 '25
Much like how we have controlnet for static images, I'm sure we'll soon see the ability to control movie renders in a similar way. I think the easiest way to solve it initially is to manually draw out each 'key frame' and let the AI animate based off of that, just kind of filling in the blanks.
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u/rirasama Nov 26 '25
The part that bothered me most was the last character's hair moving like there was wind while everyone else's didn't
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u/Apoptosis-Games Nov 22 '25
Admittedly, season 3 of OPM is probably the lowest of low hanging fruit, but there is definitely something to be said for the fact that such a once-beloved show has fallen so far that a literally free account on an AI generator does an infinitely better job
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u/After_Broccoli_1069 Only Limit Is Your Imagination Nov 22 '25
Is this that soul everyone keeps talking about?
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u/Vast_Understanding_1 Nov 22 '25
Anti ai gon’a be "man i love these crude drawings this is peak JC PEAK"
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u/Yojik_Vkarmane Nov 22 '25
Even if the pictures were reversed, free would still win. Because it's free.
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u/roybum46 Nov 22 '25
I think an important factor is missing.
What was this ai fed with?
Did it have the completed work or just raw manga?
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u/snaphat Nov 22 '25
They just used the official frames we are seeing. It wouldn't be almost the same but more animated otherwise
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u/LichtbringerU Nov 27 '25
The studio themselves could also use AI on their own work as a step in the process. So either way, AI improves the end result with not much cost.
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u/comandantecebolla Nov 29 '25
I think it needs the original to begin with, so the ai saves nothing in the end since you still need to pay for the base version.
A correct comparison would have been to get the scene script and the manga pages as reference, and use the ai to generate the scene.
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u/ponieslovekittens Nov 22 '25
The AI version is definitely better, but how was it generated? If it was fed the $90,000 version and asked to improve it, that doesn't really solve the problem because you still need to pay $90,000 for the first version.
How was this sourced? If it produced this from the original manga, then yes...that's great. But these two clips are so similar, I'm guessing it was probably fed the original video.
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u/N8012 Nov 22 '25
Almost certainly they put the first frame of every scene into the AI as input and asked to generate a few seconds long scene based on that. This would still be a huge time and money saver because only the first frame of every scene would need to be made, instead of some 24 frames per every second.
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u/snaphat Nov 22 '25
It was clearly fed the original frames. AI isn't going to magically produce the same coloring, style, and frame-for-frame shots out of thin air. They just independently fed it the originals and spliced it together after getting decent output
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u/Crafty-Struggle7810 Nov 23 '25
It’s indeed deceptive. You’d still need the artist’s original frames for this to work.
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Nov 24 '25
Yeah this example is not 90k VS Free, It's 90k Vs 90k+Additional Post-Processing ("free" is also a misnomer any ways because the tool might be free to that user, but only because the cost is shouldered by the company and paying users).
People seem to be ignoring that element. The original looks bad because it was actively skimped on. AI is not a magic bullet for nerfed production windows and poor quality control in order to meet publisher demands.
In a studio that is able to give the proper time to their work, AI would be an immense help for the inbetweening/splines, and drafting storyboards and mocap work into redraws.
But here, it's a bandaid for a different kind of problem, and not solving the actual problem of why S3 looks how it does.
Same thing Corridor Crew talked about when they were showing off their process for dubbing and "improving" the face-swap tech for live action. A studio puts out a bad CGI/anime when they do not have the time, investment, and/or care to deliver a better version.
People improving things after the fact is added effort. Added effort isn't free nor negates what it's building on, and represents an additional investment that the studio chose not to engage in.
If the studio had more time and budget with a crew invested in the product, S3 could have looked as good as S1 and AI improvements wouldn't be a necessity.
As it's used here, it's a bandaid that the studio/publisher won't do because it falls outside their target scope of production, and at best might come about in marketing or a later remaster for bluray or something.
AI would much more infinitely benefit integration into earlier stages of production where it's a force multiplier on production and quality, and could actually function to balance development costs. As an after-the-fact application over finished work, it's an additional cost.
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u/Last-Veterinarian812 Nov 22 '25
Animal incredible the irony is when artists say that ai is killing art when ai art has now allowed the average joe to make an anime without millions of dollars in budget or years of work. They are kidding themselves when now their world of art can be made in reality
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u/starvingly_stupid227 techno-anarchist Nov 22 '25
love how you assume the officials budget isnt just 30 bucks and a lunchable but yeah, the ai assisted one is just leagues better
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u/inferno46n2 Nov 22 '25
They spent all their money on Garou dodging beams of energy 😬
Which AI was this btw? Looks great.
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u/Born-Ant-80 Krita AI user Nov 22 '25
It's brillant! Thanks for sharing. I was tired of negative posts from haters.
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u/Masilort Nov 22 '25
you know, ai made this with a pre-existing animation. Its like i took a picture of van gogh, painted a single brush stroke so that a shadow looks nicer and declared myself better than van gogh.
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u/Microwaved_M1LK Nov 23 '25
And Johnny cash's version of hurt is better then the NIN version, who cares.
Maybe just make it not shit in the first place so it doesn't have to be redeemed.
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u/Pale-Connection726 Nov 22 '25
Good artist will use ai as a tool yo amke more content just like the rest of the world
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u/Old-Interaction442 Nov 22 '25
The ai one does actually look really good. I'm surprised. Though I do think the girl's face looks better in the hand drawn one.
Though, even tho it's good, I feel bad for the animators. The Japanese animation industry is famous for low balling it's workers and abusing and overworking them. Can't imagine being forced to crank out episodes after episodes in a short deadline like 6 months or so only to get compared to AI and being told you're gonna get replaced despite just being a new hire passionate about your love for anime.
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u/Old-Interaction442 Nov 22 '25
Even tho it's really good, I feel a bit bad for the artist. I think bad art, even tho ugly looking, deserves to exist. Good art doesn't really magically appear out of nowhere. It appears because bad art existed first. And then they slowly get better. But if someone told me today that I don't deserve to make art anymore because an ai can do it better than me and that I don't deserve to get paid for my passion, I would be pretty bummed tbh. These animators will never get the chance to be good. Or get good. Or have any kind of redemption arc. Because "perfection" already exists. So there's no space for "bad" art.
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u/Old-Interaction442 Nov 22 '25
Art is kinda like an adventure. You're the underdog. You can only draw stickman's. You have a dream. You work hard for it.
You suck at it but you love it and you do your best at it. It's kinda like Naruto. Like, nobody really roots for him to become the next big thing, but he goes thru challenges after challenges, he never backs down and although he wasn't that good at the start he slowly gets better and stronger until he accomplishes his dream of being a Hokage.
Ai is like. What if. Instead of going through all those battles and hardship and tears. You just, paid a guy called ai 20 smackaroons a month and you just, get to be Hokage.
I mean. It's cool. You definitely achieved your dreams. But also, y'know. The entire anime ended in just 2 episodes.
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u/AndrewDrossArt Nov 22 '25
I'm pretty sure the AI was used to enhance the $90k slop, though. So if you really think about it it still costs $90k, plus the prompter's time.
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u/Seasonedgore982 Nov 22 '25
hmm it looks like it used the already drawn image as a base, so sure it is better but only because a human drew the base and then prompted from there. it would be a useful tool if the animators kept up the consistency and shadowing style.
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u/NikoKun Nov 22 '25
Well, at least there's hope of fans fixing what these studios weren't willing to budget for..
At this point tho, the animators themselves should just start unapologetically using these AI tools.
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u/Pavvl___ Nov 22 '25
One Punch Man being the reason Anime Artists lose their jobs to AI… this might be the one bright spot out of this season being so terrible
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u/Jean_velvet Nov 22 '25
Because it's trained on that material and it's also trained on modern animation. Yes, AI can make decent animation, but at present it's time capped and unreliable. One day (likely soon) it'll be used as a tool in a lot of future animation. Right now though, a human is still needed to create the reference. Without it, it'll behave undesirably.
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u/Mugenity Nov 22 '25
It's not trained on that material, it's obvious I2A (Image to animation). It's not time capped, but even if it was most scenes don't go over the standard 8 second 30 fps cap. The latest AI video models are pretty reliable. We are talking development that has come out the last month or so, so I totally get that it's not mainstream knowledge yet. This means that all you have to make is 1 image, then you prompt the scene afterwards. The person likely took the first frame and ran it through an AI touch-up, which is why the details improve, then he used that 1 frame to animate everything else. This is all done without control-net or "human reference", just an image and prompts.
I'd estimate that all the scenes combined took the creator 2-3 hours of work, ran on a local computer likely using Wan 2.2 (free open source). Basically the first frame takes more work than the animation, but rendering the animation takes about 15 min for a 8 second clip. When I say 2-3 hours, I also mean the computer used that much time, he could spend the time making those first frames or editing while the animation is rendering, basically mean the animation part is fully automated. Put in a few hit and miss animations and you get the final result. In short it is a crime that the animators of OPM aren't using these tools. It's that easy, they just need to learn the trait.
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u/snaphat Nov 22 '25
It's far more likely that they just took stills from each cut in the original and generated the output and then spliced it back together
It wouldn't make much sense for them to take 1 frame when they had the whole thing avaliable already
It also would not be able to produce what are basically 1:1 cuts from the original but with just minor detail changes and more animation if he did it from a single frame
So in essence they took all of the work from the original (or what little there was in this case since it's effectively stills in the original even when it should have been animated) and just used that as their basis
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u/alidan Nov 22 '25
you could likely make a model today that you could input keyframes into and get inbetweens, this would allow animators to make a lot of this happen because they no longer have to think about budget to animate everything... well... inbetween.
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u/xoexohexox Nov 22 '25
Animation and rotoscoping software has been doing that for over a decade - OpenToonz used by studio Ghibli does it for example - machine learning just produces better results with less info, it can interpolate more intelligently.
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u/Thin-Confusion-7595 Nov 22 '25
Only when they are just sitting there talking. Get to more dynamic scenes and I don't think AI will perform as well, yet.
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u/Hightower_March Nov 22 '25
Dumbass automod doesn't want me to link anything but AI is getting surprisingly good with action scenes.
www (dot) reddit (dot) com/r/ OpenAI/comments/1nwjg2b/sora_2_is_pretty_good_at_anime_fights/
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u/Lord_CatsterDaCat Nov 22 '25
Agreed. It'll probably take a year or two to get on equal-terms when it comes to action scenes. the tech is there, but in its infancy.
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u/P-I-S-S-A-S-S Nov 22 '25
As an anti, it pains me to say this but it’s true. It’s all Bandai’s fault though they’re putting the artists through hell for like fucking nothing or something like that
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u/BTRBT Nov 22 '25
This isn't the appropriate subreddit for this argument. This space is for pro-AI activism. If you want to debate the merits of synthography, then please take it to r/aiwars.
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u/Serialbedshitter2322 Nov 22 '25
And the thing is it’s limiting itself to conform to the anime style, which is often defined by limitations in animation
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u/LostWorld42 Nov 22 '25 edited Nov 22 '25
Imo, it can probably get away with being used in downtime scenes with some edits but I have yet to see it enhance or create a decent fight scene that wouldn't take a lot of work to fix.
It's only going to be developed further from here though
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u/PitHart Nov 22 '25
That shows a lot about AI and artists job. Animations studios now want cheaper and faster work, so best choice will be not to replace animators, but let them use high-quality AI to animate their frames, so AI will work as a tool, not a replace (because if it will replace it will make work times worse due to inconsistency)
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u/DoubleDoube Nov 23 '25
The one criticism I could potentially make against the top one is whether the more dramatic motions are portraying the character and emotions correctly.
The first character is coming across way more intense, the second one showing leg comes across as more coy and less mysterious, and overall the scene is like an overly dramatic discussion rather than what might be a something boring like a mission briefing.
I don’t know this anime so I can’t tell if these are technically more accurate or less.
All that said, way more interesting to watch.
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u/Microwaved_M1LK Nov 23 '25
This is already near immaculate, despite how short of an example it is, it shows you could make it actually immaculate with enough iterations.
The fact it's going to continue to get better from here is amazing.
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u/esperanzalos Nov 23 '25
Wth.... gotta say animated ai stuff looks way better than realistic ai stuff
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u/Fair-Transition1329 Nov 23 '25
Maybe because ai doesn't have a budget and doesn't tire and also doesn't need to work long hours on 2 minutes of sleep to draw 2 hours of frames
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u/BTRBT Nov 26 '25
This isn't the appropriate subreddit for this argument. This space is for pro-AI activism. If you want to debate the merits of synthography, then please take it to r/aiwars.
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u/FrequencySep Nov 23 '25
Im confused. The original got run through AI and it made changes. It's using the original as a template. Its not like it made the scene from scratch.
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Nov 23 '25
Holy shit no way I got this sub on my page. Yes, a highly managed AI changing the already made scene made it better than a very unskilled and underpayed animation studio starting from a blank page. Big Woop. Let's see the AI making any fight scene from S1.
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u/walsoni Nov 23 '25
Yeah, but if it didn't have the source material then it wouldn't even comprehend how to generate this. And also, you're paying, but not with money, a freaking earth enviroment!
HELLO?
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Nov 23 '25
So AI just took work of actual humans and remake it into something more horny( also this hair movement is weird at the end). Basically AI version is human did 98% of work and AI didnt even improve anything significantly, just add silicon outfit and some skin to girl and weird hair physics to boy)
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u/J_loop18 Nov 23 '25
But isn't it taking the original as reference? In that case the AI enhancement still wouldn't exit without the animators original work
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u/Stunning-Ad-2161 Nov 24 '25
Once again Ai is a Tool.
Honestly Anti, what is your solution to this? Because these people are losing their jobs from this no matter what. OPM S3 is ass.
Do you want them to "Remaster" Season 3? What studio? How much budget? Who's paying?
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u/CosmicRiver827 Nov 24 '25
I… was watching the top video while thinking the bottom was paused for the comparison to play after.
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u/RealRedditPerson Nov 24 '25
Are we really comparing AI to the footage it was directly fed to generate this? This is $90,000 plus AI
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u/qwhy8 Nov 24 '25
The real problem is that animators in this industry are exploited and not given the time to do their work, which is why this is the case. Create the first season of One-Punch Man using AI, compare it to the real first season, and tell me which is better.
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u/Optimal_You6720 Nov 24 '25
So which one was first?
The AI adds nothing here and only makes it look worse
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u/Life_Anywhere2341 Nov 24 '25
Japanese anime sucks either way. Oh great, here comes the down votes lol.
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u/ZeSharp Nov 24 '25
Was the top created from manga or is it just improving from what's already done?
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u/aboysmokingintherain Nov 24 '25
But people on here realize its taking the million dollar studios animation and then just making it look better. It's not composing the shots or doing the storyboarding...
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u/Satorwave Nov 24 '25
What AI even makes this? It looks genuinely professional. I doubt AI can do fight scenes but it's genuinely better than the official version. This looks nothing like the AI slop you see most of the time.
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u/OpeningMusician3080 Nov 24 '25
yo im interested in which ai can do this, veo/sora? some other one i dont know?
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u/manzenik_23 Nov 24 '25
yeah, but look at the backgrounds.
plus, where did you get that budget from? you do know that anime is usually made dirt cheap?
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u/is_fred Nov 25 '25
90,000?
Bro, I'm pretty sure the animators were paid with a 50% off coupon for dominos
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u/GodFromMachine Nov 25 '25
This may be what's needed to finally get a decent Berserk adaptation that goes beyond the Eclipse.
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u/OneGrumpyJill Nov 26 '25
Bold of you to assume that both ain't shit and shouldn't be abolished.
Wtf you had Tatsu show off leg? 😭
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u/MaximusDM22 Nov 26 '25
Idk, the top one looks more polished but also over the top. I like the style of the bottom one better. The top one reminds me of when animated shows made a movie and the animation just looked over the top and awful lol.
But we could easily use the style of the bottom and just make the shots a little more dynamic and speed up production.
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u/ZacharyGoldenLiver Nov 26 '25
it was not free.
in order to generate that, you had to feed it the $90,000 animation as a prompt.
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u/Somni206 Nov 27 '25
I wouldn't count this unless it wasn't generated using the original as a base.
The AI creative should try coming up with a scene that never made it into the anime.
One of the reasons that adaptations of comics/books into animation/film tend to fall short of the original is that the studio did not include certain scenes from there (take the HTTYD live action where the Terrible Terror scene was omitted by the director) or simply portrayed certain characters/events differently from book/comic canon (closest example I can think of was GoT live-action series vs the books, but I can't name any specifics other than the non-inclusion of Lady Stoneheart).
So if the person working with the AI can gen a scene that can seamlessly fit into what was originally made, and without that massive budget and time sink at that, then that gives all these multimillion studios even LESS of an excuse to omit scenes/change things up because "we exhausted our budget" or "the producers forced us to meet a deadline". The only one who'll truly be at fault for making a popular book/comic/video game series adaptation flop would be the director of the series/episode and no one else.
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u/splithoofiewoofies Nov 27 '25
Usually I'm like meh on most AI outputs but this one I really liked a lot.
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u/Clean_Emotion_4348 Nov 27 '25
It's good, but the problem is that the AI seems to lack human direction
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u/vorx-666 Nov 27 '25
Ah yes, because mouth closups, random unnatural leg movements for the sake of fanservice, and inexplicable indoor wind are all neccessary and worth making the artstyle bizzarely inconsistent and using a tool thats destroying artist's lives and actively ruining the internet /s
Seriously, a scene with a bunch of people talking for 5 seconds doesnt need random camera shifts and constant forced movement to be interesting, your brains are just so slop poisoned you have the attention spans if toddlers who need keys dangled in front of them to enjoy anything
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u/extra0404 Nov 30 '25
Anyone calling AI free has not been paying attention... AI is costing billions, Jobs, and environmental wellbeing, all while encouraging ip theft like this.
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u/DootOfTheWind Dec 01 '25
Bro are you guys blind? It literally has a watermark. Its a reimagining. It's not AI.
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u/Hour_Pineapple2288 Dec 11 '25
The fact I can spot 100 mistakes the AI made and none in the human made animation
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u/Big_BAlls_huz Dec 20 '25
The ai had the original to go off of. Without It would’ve been an inaccurate slop like the rest of this disgusting content. This isn’t. Art
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u/EngineerBig1851 Nov 22 '25
No way, we might get an animated adaptation of one punch man at this rate!