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I'll mention Corridor Crew's Rock, Paper, Scissors [0] as the previous state of the art in terms of character animation/style transfer/etc. using AI tooling.

I imagine this will make the barrier to entry for animated stuff very, very low. You literally only need a character sheet.

Also, the creep factor for AI girlfriends has ratcheted up another notch.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QAGEvt-btI

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I think quality animation will still require a lot of skill. I do think that AI will be the end of animators who do nothing but inbetweens though. Considering the huge amount of skilled work involved and the low pay maybe that's a good thing, but it could also make it harder to develop and discover amazing animators.

Are there really that many animators left that actually do in-betweens? I would think most animation houses are using software these days for that. I think maybe old-school shops like studio ghibli maybe still do some hand drawn stuff, but I’d guess most animation these days uses tweening in software.

> Also, the creep factor for AI girlfriends has ratcheted up another notch.

I don't know if I agree with the framing here ("creep"), but for sure this will make AI girlfriend/boyfriend products even more addicting.

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