My older daughter draws so many funny looking characters and stick figures. I’ll show her and I’m sure she will light up seeing her drawings come to life.
>I want to build something with a low floor and a high ceiling; a tool that uses AI to smooth out the hardest parts of traditional animation, while letting creators keep full ownership of what they make.
And your terms of service says:
>We provide an online platform that allows users to upload images, drawings, and artwork and use our proprietary AI-powered technology to transform those images into animated videos. You may upload image files, customize certain settings related to the animation output, view and download the resulting videos, and manage their uploaded content and account. We reserve the right to establish limits on the file types, file sizes, and number of uploads permitted per user, and to modify those limits at any time. All video generation is performed automatically through a combination of AI and computer graphics technology.
That's a good question. The distinction is between generative AI (which takes in a prompt or image and generates every pixel of a new video) and non-generative AI models (e.g. classifiers, segmentation models, and pose estimation models). The second category helps us to infer characteristics about the input drawing, but it doesn't try to 'recreate' anything.
We use non-generative AI models to quickly auto-rig the character when it's uploaded. In a traditional computer graphics animation pipeline this would be done by hand and would be a slow process; we use these models to speed that step up. The resulting animations don't use any AI at all(generative or otherwise).
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My older daughter draws so many funny looking characters and stick figures. I’ll show her and I’m sure she will light up seeing her drawings come to life.
Why does your about page say this then?
>I want to build something with a low floor and a high ceiling; a tool that uses AI to smooth out the hardest parts of traditional animation, while letting creators keep full ownership of what they make.
And your terms of service says:
>We provide an online platform that allows users to upload images, drawings, and artwork and use our proprietary AI-powered technology to transform those images into animated videos. You may upload image files, customize certain settings related to the animation output, view and download the resulting videos, and manage their uploaded content and account. We reserve the right to establish limits on the file types, file sizes, and number of uploads permitted per user, and to modify those limits at any time. All video generation is performed automatically through a combination of AI and computer graphics technology.
That's a good question. The distinction is between generative AI (which takes in a prompt or image and generates every pixel of a new video) and non-generative AI models (e.g. classifiers, segmentation models, and pose estimation models). The second category helps us to infer characteristics about the input drawing, but it doesn't try to 'recreate' anything.
We use non-generative AI models to quickly auto-rig the character when it's uploaded. In a traditional computer graphics animation pipeline this would be done by hand and would be a slow process; we use these models to speed that step up. The resulting animations don't use any AI at all(generative or otherwise).
Gotcha! Appreciate the clarification!