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hi welcome back to our Channel and for
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those that are new here I'm going to
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give a brief introduction about myself
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so I'm Marvin te I'm an animator slash
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creative director here at plenty simple
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so we are a motion Design Studio based
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in the Philippines and we have been in
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the industry for about 10 years now so
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what I'm about to say is only my opinion
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um I may be right but I could also be
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wrong so take this with a grain of salt
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so I'm going to talk about AI currently
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there are a lot of
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um AI Technologies a lot of upcoming AI
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Technologies so Photoshop beta has
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Firefly AI built in so there's
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generative feel and other features and
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there's Wonder Dynamics what it does is
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you have a footage and it will replace
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the people in those footage with 3D
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characters that either you have modeled
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your self or you have purchased on a 3D
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store like sketchfab I think that Wonder
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Dynamics also has like preset 3D models
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that was done by 3D artists so uh that's
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a Wonder Dynamics and then there's
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Runway Gen 2 so this is a generative AI
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so you just describe what you want and
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then with the clip of a button it will
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generate that video and currently it's
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not there yet but the technology the
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technology would only improve so the
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question is will we be replaced by Ai
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and my short answer is no let's be clear
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about this
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um if a company is taking advantage
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against a certain group that is not okay
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it's not okay to use other people's work
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without their permission and profit from
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it I'm not an expert in copyright law so
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I'm not really in the position to say
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what is copyright infringement or not
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but currently there are class action
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lawsuits filed so let's wait what the
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courts think but no matter what we
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believe in I think AI is here to stay in
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the future
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um AI May evolve it may transform there
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may be regulations in place that would
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change how these companies train their
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AI models but AI is here to stay so
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going back to the question I have four
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points why my answer is no
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so Point number one currently
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um the only real AI animation is uh
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Runway gen 2. it's because it's the only
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text to video that I have seen so far
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um I don't consider like stable
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diffusion techniques as AI animation
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because you still need to supply like
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the footage so it's more like a filter
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rather than animation and currently
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Runway Gen 2 doesn't look great it's
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okay but it's not great and even if it
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does produce like a good video it's
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still very clear that an AI has done
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that if you consider like all those
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points
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motion designers are still needed this
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is still in the like early phase it's
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still in the development phase and the
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technology would only improve over time
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and I wouldn't be surprised that in the
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next few years you wouldn't anymore
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distinguish or differentiate
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um or you couldn't even tell the
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difference between AI animation and
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human animation and this this leads me
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to my point number two so let's say
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um AI has improved so much that it could
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do animation it could do good animation
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and let us say that in this future the
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ethical aspect of AI has been resolved
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in this future is creativity dead is
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motion design dead and my answer is
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still no that is because in order to
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operate the AI to such a high level you
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still need to have the skills AI cannot
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operate itself there needs to be an
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artist behind the AI you need to have
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the concept you need to have like the
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division each artist or motion designer
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has their own like creative direction or
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Vision like what they want like the
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animation to look like and you need this
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to guide the AI let's take for example a
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corridor crew they've experimented with
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AI tools and the results are amazing
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it's a highly creative work and that is
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because they are artists they understand
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composition lighting VFX
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cinematography and
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Etc it's not something that a
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non-creative could just use and the
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results is something like that okay
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let's say AI can do animation but what
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easing will it use will it applies
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squash and stretch will there be
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overlapping actions will the key posts
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be exaggerated or is it more on the
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realistic side these are creative
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decisions that we make as animators and
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if you don't have this skill and you use
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like AI the output would be generic so
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even if AI animation would be widespread
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you still need motion designers to
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operate it and if needed a motion
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designer can make tweaks to the
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animation or maybe create their own
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version of the animation that if in case
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the output doesn't match their Vision so
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I've tried using chat GPT to write a
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caption on one of our Instagram posts
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and it's impressive it's impressive in
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the sense that it's able to write
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something from nothing and it's really
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related on like the the topic that I
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asked it to but it doesn't sound like me
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it doesn't know me it doesn't know my
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personality it doesn't know what I know
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it doesn't know what I'd like to focus
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on I did like a lot of like back and
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forth with chat GPT so that um it would
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sound like me and in the end I had to
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use the output as a starting point and I
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edited it so that the write up would
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sound like me and it would focus on what
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I like to focus on so I think that's
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um
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the possible future that if you're going
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to uh
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use like AI for for animation it may be
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that it would be a good starting point
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but you would have to tweak it you would
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have to replace
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um certain parts with your own animation
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to make it really great Point number
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three I think that AI would actually
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improve creativity
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um there are like multiple layers to a
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motion design project there's script
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there's storyboard
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um there's design there's animation
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there's sound design and Etc I'm an
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animator but I could also say that
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animation is not the most important part
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in an animated movie or in an in an
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animated project it's the story can you
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make the audience feel something and if
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AI can do the tedious parts of Animation
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then this would allow us animators to
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focus on the more important aspect of
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the animation pipeline we can focus on
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what can we do to make this scene more
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emotional maybe in the in this future AI
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can like do this really quickly because
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like it would cut down like the time
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um and maybe in this feature we could
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animate a scene in just one to three
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days instead of two to three weeks if
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that is so then we could create a lot of
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versions and then we could try things
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out and then we could try something and
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see if this works or not so now we could
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focus on the story we could now focus on
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the emotional aspect of our animation
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instead of moving pixels instead of like
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moving keyframes incorporating AI to
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automate like some process of the
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animation that would allow us to to look
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back and see the bigger picture and uh
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some may say that I want to create
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something with my own hands otherwise
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it's not art and that's actually my
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point number four even if AI will be
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around human animation and Human Art
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will not go away when every artist are
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painters and photography came along
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didn't kill painting
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when digital tools came along it did not
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kill traditional art and some of you may
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even remember that before some
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traditional artists doesn't consider
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digital art as art but I think now
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almost everyone would agree that digital
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art is Art and when 3D animation came
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along they said 2D is dead and maybe to
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some extent it was because when a 3D
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animation came along there was a drop in
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2D animation in the big screens but
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recently there has been like a
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Resurgence in 2D animation so you see 2D
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animated films you see animated series
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that are very good there's a lot of very
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good anime anime movies 2D commercial
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2D animation is everywhere open an app
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and there's 2D animation 2D is far from
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dead and I think the same will happen to
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um human animation or human art and this
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is just a bold prediction but I think
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that human art and human animation would
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be valued more before frame by frame
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animation is the only way to do
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animation and then different techniques
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were invented discovered like twinning
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the cut out style a rigging Etc that
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allows animators to animate faster but
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frame by frame is far from that frame by
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frame animation is actually a hot skill
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in the motion design world so I think in
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the future people with an eye for
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animation and a hand for animation would
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be valued more and people who has those
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who has those skills and who are really
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good at what they do plus they
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incorporate AI tools into their workflow
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these people would be valued even more
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valued timestan but that's just my
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personal opinion
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so what can we do to prepare in an AI
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future so the first is to learn the
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fundamentals learn the fundamentals of
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Animation
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um learn proportion Anatomy lighting
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composition
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cinematography
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design principles uh storytelling
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whatever is essential in your field so
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these things are Timeless no matter like
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what software you're going to use no
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matter if you're going to use AI or not
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you are going to need this so focus on
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learning that learn the why learn why do
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you need to use this effect learn why we
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need to use this plugin if you have a
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five-step process learn why you need to
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do step one understand why you need to
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do step two and that's the reason why
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our tutorial Oreos can get very long
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sometimes that's because I take the time
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to explain our thinking process to
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explain the reason behind how we do
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things but it's not only our channel
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that does that so fish out the high
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level stuff second is you need to
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improve your creative taste I think our
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creative taste would play a crucial role
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in an AI future so if you have a good
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taste in design if you have a good taste
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in animation I think you are on the
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right path so how do you improve your
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creative palette so just like our
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physical taste buds right that uh we
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need to eat or to taste
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um different kinds of food different
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Cuisines creatively the equivalent of
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that is to watch good movies to watch
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Good animation to look at posters
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appreciate good posters and if it's
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accessible to you go to museums attend
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design events design conferences meet
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people read books read art books watch
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motion design projects follow highly
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creative people on Instagram and other
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social media feed your mind with ideas
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feed your mind with the good stuff and
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not junk third is as long as it's
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ethical emphasis on ethical
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um try AI don't be afraid of it learn it
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and try to think of creative ways on how
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you can incorporate AI on your workflow
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and AI isn't just limited to generative
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art it's just not limited to you know
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text inputs and that would generate like
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an image or a video there's like a vast
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array of AI tools and like some of them
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would automate a certain of your process
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fourth is to continue to practice hone
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your skills you're going to need it in
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an AI future just like I what I've said
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before
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um human art or human animation will
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never be dead and if you have honed your
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skills
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um that's going to give you an edge for
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the record I'm not using AI I just
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haven't figured out a way to incorporate
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it in my workflow but it is part of my
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to-do list to look into it
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here are some like tools that I like
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want to see from AI like if I'll have my
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way uh these are like the things I want
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to be invented so AI has like a lot of
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potential imagine that you're doing
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character design and you're just gonna
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draw like one angle and with a click of
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a button AI would do like the rest of
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the angles
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AI could do that that would really save
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time I would really like I If that tool
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exists I would use that tool next is I
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would like to see an auto shading tool
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so in frame by frame animation you draw
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the character frame by frame and to do
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shading and frame by frame you need to
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do it you need to draw or add the
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shading one by one if I'll get my way
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right to have this tool an AI tool I
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would want that um there's just a button
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you're just gonna like do like one frame
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so that the AI would have like a
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reference
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so you just do one frame for the shading
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and then click like a button and then AI
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would automatically use that information
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to do the shading for the rest of the
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video or for the rest of the frames that
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would be really awesome
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next is auto cleanup so all the things
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I've mentioned before are like
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hypothetical AI tools that I want so
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next is auto cleanup cleanup is a very
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previous process but imagine you're just
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gonna do the sketch and then with just a
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click of a button with AI it's going to
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convert that sketch into a clean line
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art and maybe you'll have an option to
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um like do you want a raster version of
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it or a vector version of it and finally
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Auto in between
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so you just do the key poses and then
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click a button and then AI would do the
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in-betweens and you might say that this
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already exists right there's twinning in
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Adobe animate and in Adobe After Effects
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you've got keyframing but
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um these tools are limited to a rig and
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when you animate you don't draw like the
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key poses right you you move you know
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you move like deeply puppet what I'm
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trying to refer to is that you draw the
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key poses you draw the key poses and
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then a I will draw the in between so
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this is like an AI for frame by frame
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animation wouldn't that be great if like
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all of these tools like exist this is
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the tools that we want as artists not
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the the text to to Art not the text to
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video maybe you know what maybe I'll
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just apply to this AI companies and and
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bring this ideas to them
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just kidding
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if you reach this far thank you very
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much for watching I hope this video was
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insightful and let me know in the
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comment section what you think of this
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video and uh just a reminder to be
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respectful in the comment section
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so um you may agree with me or not and
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um that's okay it's okay to have
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different uh different point of view
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also just a reminder to be always to be
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nice it's because
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um it's a real person on the other side
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of the screen and it doesn't mean that
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uh you have different views that it
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already gives you a permission to be
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rude right so always always be nice uh I
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think uh that's it that's it for this
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video
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