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Re: Animated Drawings

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This is a great project and it was fun playing around with it. When Meta started discussing this in 2021, the HN sentiment [1] was quite...cautious, making connections to how Meta can't be trusted with kids drawings. Has something changed? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29580619

We've moved on to a different moral panic

I mean it gets exhausting. We had Covid (and Q), Musk taking over Twitter, war in Ukraine, fear of war in Taiwan, ... accelerated climate change and so on. There are real limits to how many things one can be upset about.

Re: Animated Drawings

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It's cool that this is possible, but it's missing some very important subtleties which make professional animation look "right" or even "real". As it is, there's no sense of compression or snap at the right parts of the movement. 2D character animation has a lot of exaggerated distortions of objects to make them look like they land on the ground or bounce. The sense of weight and inertia is critical.

These aren't necessarily great, but this page[0] does touch on some of the basic concepts. "Squash and stretch" is a key thing missing. Also while in the demo you're dancing not walking, a walk cycle is a very basic thing which is often done poorly by even supposedly professional companies. [1] It's really important for the "contact" part to seem like it's happening. Getting feet to plant themselves on the ground and look like they're not swimming or sliding around is a challenge.

[0] https://idearocketanimation.com/13721-12-principles-of-anima... [1] https://www.angryanimator.com/word/2010/11/26/tutorial-2-wal...

[my father worked in animation for much of his career and would complain bitterly about badly done animation, so I guess I can't unsee things with his critical eye]

Re: Animated Drawings

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’VE BEEN DOING IT WRONG THE WHOLE TIME

I'm definitely going to start stretching before coding now! Maybe even 15 minutes of yoga before debugging.

Honestly, that would be so good for your health. You'd go into your 30s, 40s, and 50s with much less MSK pain.

Re: Animated Drawings

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Hey! That’s my project! Code and dataset are here: https://github.com/facebookresearch/AnimatedDrawings And a browser-based version of it is here: http://sketch.metademolab.com/

Would be nice to add a queue. Went through all the steps and then it said the servers are busy losing progress.
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