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Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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> This is not an officially supported Google product. Does that indicate the author is a Google employee who happened to make this in their free time, and has to say this somewhere by Google policy?

"Unless your project is an official Google product, you must state “This is not an officially supported Google product” in an appropriate location such as the project’s README file."

https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/publishing/

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Why is this down voted? I hate it when people do that and offer no explanation. Totally useless input, even harmful. HN should force comment on down-vote.

Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. Would you please read them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html One reason that guideline exists is that unfair downvotes frequently get canceled by users who come along, see the situation, and make a corrective upvote. Meanwhile complaints like this linger on in the thread, inaccurate and off-topic—they don't garbage-collect themselves. As an example, I noti…

Why not have a meta discussion like a Wikipedia Talk page so comments like these would have room and critique won't be shut down.

Yesterday (you can look in my comment history) I ran into a situation where the person doing the down-voting turned out to be basing it on their opinion not fact (after they finally stated their opinion on the matter, which contradicts peer-reviewed research on the topic, I realized why they were down voting: insufficient depth of understanding of the topic) and no one came after them to correct the situation...

Either have people explain why they down-voted or have a Talk page where people can discuss their reasons, complain, etc, behind the scene.

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.

This is something I have been tracking for a few years now. If anyone is interested please DM me.

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Posting like this breaks the site guidelines. Would you please read them? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html One reason that guideline exists is that unfair downvotes frequently get canceled by users who come along, see the situation, and make a corrective upvote. Meanwhile complaints like this linger on in the thread, inaccurate and off-topic—they don't garbage-collect themselves. As an example, I noti…

Why not have a meta discussion like a Wikipedia Talk page so comments like these would have room and critique won't be shut down. Yesterday (you can look in my comment history) I ran into a situation where the person doing the down-voting turned out to be basing it on their opinion not fact (after they finally stated their opinion on the matter, which contradicts peer-reviewed research on the topic, I realized why th…

HN is a site for intellectual curiosity (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...) and a meta forum would be a step away from that. It would fill up with litigious bickering and nitpicking, and demands for bureaucratic administration—all things that intellectually curious discussion requires having the restraint to avoid.

Edit: and it's for similar reasons that we don't publish a moderation log.

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.

I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html

Adobe Character Animator is not bad, has skeletal rigging and tracks mouth but doesn't do deformations like this one

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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It would be cool privacy-wise to have some sort of virtual webcam that could share such an animation rather than what the webcam actually sees.

This is fairly easy to wire up on Linux using v4l2loopback and pyfakewebcam.

I am currently using a little setup that uses OpenCV to acquire frames from the real camera, TensorFlow/BodyPix to compute an alpha mask for the foreground (me) and then OpenCV again to transform and composite myself behind news desks and into car infotainment screens and the like, eventually writing it to a virtual webcam I can use from Zoom (over its own virt bg feature this adds the layering and perspective transforms), Jitsi, Teams, etc.

The above looks like another fun thing to add. Time to go full Who Framed Roger Rabbit? ...

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.

I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html

Good to know, it's a awesome feature I am surprised I don't see more successful shows made with this on reddit and youtube

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe Adobe has had this for a long time in character animator https://www.adobe.com/products/character-animator.html

Good to know, it's a awesome feature I am surprised I don't see more successful shows made with this on reddit and youtube

That's because the animation is very much the least important part of a successful show. It's the writing and voice acting. South Park is a great example of this. It's successful because it is funny and edgy. The animation could have gone a lot of different ways and had similar success I think.

Re: Pose Animator: SVG animation tool using real-time TensorFlow.js models

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Wow, this would change how animation is done completely! If there existed an easy way to create animated character cartoons. It would launch a thousand southpark/rick and morty type of shows. A team with 10k can launch a show.

On the other hand, I expect a rash of poorly done "explainer" type videos coming.

Heh, literally my first thought when I saw the sample gifs was that I could use this to make some explainer videos. And yes, they would probably end up looking poorly done.
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