More details emerge on Toei Animation's AI aspirations after its investment in PFN, described as possessing "top-level AI technology competence in Japan."
The only way this wouldn’t be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I’m only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.
It can be great for filling in frames. Much easier to animate something at like 5-10 frames per second or less and use AI to smooth it out by filling in the gaps.
The only way this wouldn’t be supremely disappointing would be if they were keeping all staff and only introducing this for lower-importance sequences to reduce the famously insane workload. But yeah, I know I’m only kidding myself to even entertain that idea.
It can be great for filling in frames. Much easier to animate something at like 5-10 frames per second or less and use AI to smooth it out by filling in the gaps.
Except frame interpolation like that typically looks terrible even with modern algorithms.