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by autoexec 3 hours ago
> I wonder why the use of AI to do in-between frames is not more embraced by artists and professionals.

It's been being used for years. It saves time, but ultimately the results aren't good enough to replace humans. I don't expect that it ever will be. AI is incapable of creativity and sometimes it'll be faster and easier for an artist to just draw what they envision than it is to tell a computer what they want, have the artless software do it badly, and then have the artist tweak and fix the result until it matches what they wanted in the first place.

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The heavy lifting in terms of realizing vision was already done in the design, layout, and keyframing phases. The in-between frames are interpolations, that's why they're sent to sweatshops. And the idea is that you wouldn't proompt them like you do Midjourney; you'd send the AI keyframes and it would geberste the in-betweens.

I can totally see where an animator might be dissatisfied with doing this on a hand-drawn production, however, and vastly prefer humans drawing every frame of the production.