I think you know just theoretically I could combine something like Faceapp
and EbSynth and all of a sudden start talking to you guys with an old version
of myself and that to me is just insane all right I'm gonna be real with you
guys this just like it blows my mind what's up everybody it's your boy Nate
and today I'm gonna show you a super dope software that lets you animate
using AI is that the way you say that's a bingo
the results are super impressive and I just can't wait to share it with you I'm
excited I know you are too all right let's go so as an animator and motion
designer I've seen a lot of amazing advancements going on in the community
just in the past few years so honestly if someone was gonna tell me a few years
ago that we're gonna be able to use facial recognition and live remapping
using your phone I would have been like mmm yeah right but nowadays we have some
amazing tools like face tuned even Instagram Facebook snapchat honestly
it's just amazing that you're able to do some pretty amazing things just using
your smartphone yeah yeah it is it's just amazing to think how far
smartphones it's um okay yeah so anyways a month ago or a little bit over a month
ago a new software came out for free called EB synth and the shit is just
super dope I had to share with you guys basically it lets you animate using AI
now it's not like a super smart trained software it's like you still have to
feed it images in fact the way it works is by using a video as an image sequence
and then you give it a style reference keyframe and it's able to take those two
and synthesize into some super dope results okay so for a little background
most animation is already made using real footage for real world examples did
you know that even old Disney movies were animated based on reference footage
that they took yeah some of it looks pretty silly if you look back at it and
it's also pretty cool huh anyways this process literally requires an end
or a team of animators to draw everything frame by frame this process
would look like an animator or lead animator going in and drawing really
important frames which are gonna be called keyframes and then another
assistant animator who'd go in and create the in-between frames so that
those motions that happen in between something like start to go like yeah in
between them and this process as you can imagine takes a lot of time and a lot of
skill and effort to wear yeah even Hayao Miyazaki's start this is kayo miyazaki
hayao miyazaki's starting out was an in-between animator so out of nowhere
comes a super dope software that is essentially able to create these in
between frames which takes out then need for like a huge animation team and
starts to this let the computer the AI do the rest of the work for you which to
me is just freakin mind-blowing so the process still looks pretty similar and
that you're gonna need a keyframe except the huge difference is that the rest of
the in-betweens are done through the software and I ended up trying this out
I consider myself a super novice drawer but I was able to whip up something for
my favorite TV show Rick and Morty and create this style frame which looks a
little bit like it's painted on just to see what would happen the note the
software only got this one frame and the rest of that you're seeing is created by
it yeah I have no idea how the fuck this shit works this is though it's not bad
considering I did like a super rough quick and dirty job just to test out the
software but I've seen some people make other amazing super dope stuff to where
it's looking like AI is gonna have a huge foot in the animation community
pretty soon because already that I think you know just theoretically I could
combine something like facetune and EB sin and all of a sudden start talking to
you guys with an old version of myself and that to me is just insane because
the process and after-effects would have taken so much time so much effort and I
really love that the barrier for entry into stuff like this looks like it's
going away so I'm really hopeful for it let me put back on these glasses shit so
I'm really hopeful for it yeah so I'd love to read your comments it's
just mind-blowing to me all the progress that we're making and I'm super hopeful
for it let me know what you think and I hope to catch you in the next one peace
oh by the way if you guys have not checked it out this part I want you guys
to check out because I think it was super dope and surprisingly easy to make
to think that I'm able to create this effect just using my smartphone and
about three clicks of a button is yeah just mind-blowing
this is one of the coolest things that I've seen on the Internet now if you
like how this was done I'm gonna go a little bit more in-depth on it in a
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