Did We Just Change Animation Forever?

Corridor Crew · 3.5M views · 2023-02-26 · 23:02

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Overview

Corridor Crew explain how they made an anime short by filming themselves and running the footage through custom-trained Stable Diffusion models. The video walks through the technique and its open-source foundations.

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HN cites it as an example of temporally stable AI video stylization built from ordinary production gear.

Recommended by 1 HN people across 1 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

Topics

Animation & visual effects LLMs & generative AI

What people said

samspenc · 2023-03 · Recommendation
I thought Midjourney was better as well, until I saw some recent videos from Corridor Crew on Youtube. For those who don't know, this is a VFX studio in LA that tries to keep at the cutting-edge of video production techniques and posts content to their Youtube channel, and they have a massive number of followers and several viral videos. They recently created a full 7-minute anime using Stable Diffusion with their own models and their existing video production gear, I'll post the links and let the results speak for themselves The actual 7-minute anime piece produced using SD: [LINK] Behind the scenes: "Did we change anime forever?" [VIDEO] "VFX reveal before and after" [LINK]
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someperson · 2024-02 · Reference
> There was a video of some guys doing this (sorry can’t find it) to make an anime type animation. With consistent characters. They used videos of themselves running through their own models to make the characters. That was Corridor Crew: [VIDEO]
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Kelamir · 2023-03 · Reference
The characters here are processed with Stable Diffusion. This is an impressive progress in the field of video generation with help of AI, considering how consistent the generated characters look like across frames, in my opinion. Also here is another video [VIDEO] "Did We Just Change Animation Forever?" where they demonstrated how it came to be.
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