Top Animator Reveals AMAZING AI and Hand Drawn Animation Differences (By Hayk_Animation)

Have you ever generated an image or video with AI before? It seems you are looking through rose tinted glasses, since it cannot create higher quality outputs just by you telling it to.

Not to mention, real animation is done through start and end frames of a specific sequence, then going in between, completing that cycle multiple times until a full animation is made.

AI does it by calculating what's next from the start, so it inherently cannot produce animations that show consistency, let alone even follow deep prompts or a series of edits for image generation, from my experience.

I'd give the generative AI businesses around a decade or more to improve it enough to be a suitable tool for animators, but even then, they still would need to edit it AND cause inconvenience due to not properly animating (using assets, stringing them into an animation through motion and other tweens, and other tools), but just producing a video file.

Not like you’d normally put that much work into hand-made animation that is not specifically made to showcase what animation CAN look like.

Have you never watched an animated film? And I don't mean those Saturday morning cartoon things. I mean actual long-form film made for adults.

Animators put insane amount of work into details and subtleties when animating to sell the immersion.

Idk, seems like it would be an easy fix to tell the AI to generate more in-betweens to make the animation smoother.

Then you'd just get more random in-betweens. The issue is that the degenerative AI has literally no idea what it's making. It doesn't know about legs or arms or eyes or noses or whatever. It has no internal model guiding it in any way, so asking it to generate more frames is just going to get you more frames of arms and legs jerking around in disturbing, incoherent ways.

Idk, seems like it would be an easy fix to tell the AI to generate more in-betweens to make the animation smoother.

Adding more frames would not fix the issues with the AI animation as it entirely lacks purpose, meaning that it is only jiggling around the place. Just look at the arms in the AI animation and compare that to the real animations. The AI also does nothing with the character's face in sharp contrast to the real animation, if you look at the real animations again pay close attention to all the small details the animator includes.

I do not think the purpose of the animation was to compare the framerate, instead I think it was to compare the overall quality and to showcase the lack of intent AI 'art' in general has.

Not like you’d normally put that much work into hand-made animation that is not specifically made to showcase what animation CAN look like.

Those are animations that they did for fun and practice.

but recently, I started animating him doing different dance moves—partly to practice animation, partly to keep myself drawing.

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