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Genshin Impact's new web event uses nightmare-inducing AI animation (www.destructoid.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A new Genshin Impact web event has some great loot, but you're going to have to look at some terrifying AI animation.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Must be living a pretty sheltered life if this is "nightmare inducing"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Not to sound mean but it's people who spend their time on gacha games.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Clickbait title is clickbait. This is barely newsworthy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

lmao who greenlights that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Give them a break guys, they're just a small indie company that doesn't have the money to pay animators to do an actually good job /s

Aside from how awful the animations are, I'm wondering why they felt they needed them at all. The little chibi portraits would have looked fine as static images

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

AI images can be shockingly good. AI animation... sucks. That'll change. There's too much training data not to. Every minute of video is hundreds of adjacent frames to tell the machine what can happen between adjacent frames. But right now, it's either fuzzy and bad, or clean and worse, and I cannot comprehend how anyone saw these and said "that'll do."

Just pick a good frame and wiggle the parts in Live2D or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Just pick a good frame and wiggle the parts in Live2D or something.

The hilarious part is that hoyo is constantly pushing the boundaries of what can be done with live2d; it's heavily used in Genshin character teasers, and their otome game uses it extensively. They're really good at this. Why get AI involved?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Trying makes sense. Failing makes sense. Shipping anyway does not make sense.

[+] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Like, I like Lawrence of Arabia. That movie actually has pretty good-quality footage. But…there’s still film grain. And the frame rate is only so high. But there is a whole lot of footage of Lawrence in that movie, enough information to do a pretty good job, if used effectively, of dropping film grain, generating intermediate frames, and increasing the resolution.

This is possible today, and without much effort. Most Stable Diffusion kits just come with upscalers and, as long as you pick the right ones for the job, the models act like fucking magic. Way way better than any of the "nearest neighbor" algorithms image editors provide.

Video editors already have really good tools for interpolating frames for slow motion. They are a bit fiddly in high motion situations, but work well otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't even notice the little issues with the animation, I was just getting through it