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Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by spacechild1 » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 7:32 PM UTC

bitwize wrote: post #42

Hand-drawn animation, whether for video games or television or other media, is one of those artistic fields where I can see AI being a huge win for everybody. The reason why is because drawing the in-betweens in an animation is tedious, time-consuming, costly, and, in most 2D animation productions, outsourced to sweatshops abroad. And yet it's most of the work that goes into an animation. I think most animators would…

Adobe has been working on some real cool stuff like this. IMO, AI should be a tool to support the creative process, and not to replace it.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by Lerc » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 7:41 PM UTC

nkrisc wrote: post #93

Aeolun wrote: post #73

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Unless you didn’t want people to see and use it, maybe you shouldn’t have made it public? I don’t think training AI is fundamentally different from humans learning from things they see, and we don’t restrict that either.

AI isn’t human.

This is true, but not an argument in itself.

AI is also not American, A puppy, or a cardboard box full of fairies.

Your underlying presumption is that there is some property of Humans that makes the distinction important. Without identifying that property it impossible to evaluate the merit of any claim about it.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by Lerc » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 7:54 PM UTC

Draiken wrote: post #98

akritrime wrote: post #96

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Imagine if writers complained that stuff they wrote were being used in literature classes that teaches people how to read and write because how sentences they once toiled over for hours would now be used in mundane letters. AI can't take away an artists creativity, just like how photography didn't kill painting. Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by…

Comparing teaching other humans to "teaching" a model is absurd. AI can't take their creativity but it will take their means of survival so a few companies can profit instead. Yeah, great trade-off.

>Comparing teaching other humans to "teaching" a model is absurd.

Bold conclusion, but why is it absurd?

New ways of making thinks has always had an impact on the old ways of making things. Are you proposing we should seek no new ways of making things? I have been described as a creative person by some. The notion of restricting what people can make and how they can make them does not gel with my idea of creativity.

I am sympathetic to those who might have their source of income affected. That is not a problem with the current change, it has been a problem with all change throughout history. If the welfare of people is really your concern then your issue is not with the change but how society supports people effected by that change.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by lyogavin » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 8:21 PM UTC

zoba wrote: post #84

I’m curious if you know of a similar tool for generating tilesets for top down RPG like games? I’ve tried Midjourney, which makes nice art, but it can’t be used in a game.

we'll add top down, isometric and other views

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by lyogavin » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 8:23 PM UTC

banner520 wrote: post #47

I operated for 30 minutes, but it didn't achieve the result I wanted

sorry, there were way too more requests than the compute power i prepared for. New GPUs are added. you can give it a try

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by snackbroken » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 8:27 PM UTC

user____name wrote: post #104

akritrime wrote: post #96

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Imagine if writers complained that stuff they wrote were being used in literature classes that teaches people how to read and write because how sentences they once toiled over for hours would now be used in mundane letters. AI can't take away an artists creativity, just like how photography didn't kill painting. Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by…

> Yes, it closes up certain avenues on how artists make money but it will most probably make up for that by making them more productive. How?

It's already happening in the movie industry. Things like painstakingly hand-tracking an actor's face onto a body double vs using deepfake face replacement. A single vfx artist can now do this work much more quickly, pushing down the cost to do it. This in turn opens up new opportunities for work which were previously not economically viable, like splicing in retakes or making mouth movements match the voiceover dialogue.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by nkrisc » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 11:16 PM UTC

Lerc wrote: post #112

nkrisc wrote: post #93

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AI isn’t human.

This is true, but not an argument in itself. AI is also not American, A puppy, or a cardboard box full of fairies. Your underlying presumption is that there is some property of Humans that makes the distinction important. Without identifying that property it impossible to evaluate the merit of any claim about it.

I was replying to this, specifically:

> I don’t think training AI is fundamentally different from humans learning from things they see, and we don’t restrict that either.

It places humans and AI on equal footing, which I fundamentally object to. No, we do not restrict how humans learn, nor do I believe we should. I do believe we can, and ought, to have restrictions on how technology is used within human society. Those restrictions may change over time and adapt, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the premise that AI learning and human learning is not fundamentally different - it is different because one involves a human, whose needs should be placed above those of a machine.

It's the tendency to equate humans and AI that I find both distasteful and potentially dangerous.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by nkrisc » Sat, Jun 07, 2025, 11:19 PM UTC

archerx wrote: post #99

nkrisc wrote: post #92

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I’m not opposed to generative AI, in principle, it’s how it’s being employed that bothers me.

Please elaborate.

It bothers me when it's sold as a tool to replace human creativity. I do believe it can absolutely be a tool that aids human creativity. I would rather see more of the latter than the former.

They say, "you don't need an artist with our AI" instead of "you too can learn to become an artist with our AI". The vision they're selling is a world without artists. They want the art without the arist.

Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Re: Show HN: AI game animation sprite generator

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Post by lostlogin » Sun, Jun 08, 2025, 12:59 AM UTC

bobxmax wrote: post #20

JohnKemeny wrote: post #17

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If you seriously think doctors are losing their jobs due to ai advances, you need to check your sources. Most likely, more people will need medical attention.

Of course they're going to lose their job. ChatGPT is already replacing a bunch of requests that would otherwise be at a walk-in clinic. AI is being shown to be a better diagnostician in many cases than physicians. AI is rapidly reducing the need for radiologists. You think in 20 years you have more doctors than today? Please.

> AI is rapidly reducing the need for radiologists.

I work in radiology. This isn’t true. Having the AI circle the obviously broken bone, and put a ‘maybe fracture’ on anything vaguely difficult to interpret is a waste of time.

I also receive ‘AI’ referrals. They are hot trash and generate more work that the worst human referral. They sound like they are saying something sensible. But they aren’t.