#mash edit yippee!!

[4-0-7-7]

are we human or are we dancer?

(also on youtube here)

[zomboba]

"The word humiliation... Doesn't even begin to describe this feeling." "Please don't kill meee..." "That's not an option."

Six hours of mashing three pictures from Otakon together and editing my body away, I was finally able to bring this scene to life!!

With the work of a long time fan and another relatively new fan who sped through the series at the speed of light, I can now say after 27 years of my life I am now a One Piece fan LMAO

Buggy: ME YIPPEE

Crocodile: @capsgirl19

Mihawk: @kyle-the-monkey

 📸: @insomniacdjinn

[sillyandquiteawkward]

with my process and how i do thumbs for an animation i really prefer to work in a program like adobe animate/flash bc it really is just streamline for me to scratch things down in time and let me mash out inbetweens. but i dont have adobe cc anymore but i just found out theres a older free browser based animating program called wick editor and its perf. something i can pop music into and start scribbling to it. then i can export it to video/images and pull those into my drawing program to finish and then retime it in my editing software. yippee !

[ajammednerfgun]

Stupid AI and voice acting

I feel like this is talked about a lot in regard to digital image artists or animators, but AI isn’t just an issue for them. It literally threatens the entire industry of art as a whole. With companies being greedy to the point of preferring that your mother dive head-first into an active wood chipper over having to pay someone a living wage, and now that AI is worming it’s way into seemingly every single FUCKING thing ever (Not even my god-forsaken washing machines are safe, doomed to have AI wrapped around their necks like a damn yoke. I reblogged something related just under this post on my blog), is it any wonder that people who they see as nothing more than numbers in a model or pawns to be used up and abandoned when they’re no longer useful. It’s sickening. I hate it. I hate it so much. Not even, like, just AI, it’s the spirit of the entire thing that makes me so excited for class consciousness.  

 

I specifically wanted to highlight voice acting, because that’s particularly in path of AI’s advancement. All of those tik tok brainrot videos, of which there are an innumerable amount, have AI voices. Now, text-to-speech has been around forever, robot voices reading reddit Am I The Asshole stories are old news. But now, you’ve got people waking up and finding that their voices have been scraped from their work and turned into an AI, and are now saying shit they’ve never said. I remember reading about this one story where the VA for Beidou in genshin impact got their work stolen and used to make a Beidou AI voice and subsequently tik tok porn, which the VA stumbled upon in the wild like finding the thing that got stolen from you on ebay. The real kicker is that the voice actor can really only cry about it to ElevenLabs, which, if you hadn’t guessed it already, is now historically precedented to be a company that sucks! Yippee! Forbes made an article on it, but it has a paywall, so definitely don’t mash ctrl + p as you click the link to turn it into a PDF you can read, because it might not work, and if it doesn’t, closing the link and trying again but faster than the paywall wouldn’t help at all. Nope. www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2023/10/09/keep-your-paws-off-my-voice-voice-actors-worry-generative-ai-will-steal-their-livelihoods/ 

Like, as a tool? Fine. That’s completely fine. Why shouldn’t AI compile all my data for me into a neat little package I can send to the editing team? Apart from environmental concerns (which are valid but not the focus, apparently) I wouldn’t mind if AI helped a character someone’s voicing sound slightly different, older or younger or things like that. Or in cases where you have a game and you want the player to be able to actually just talk to the characters, AI wouldn’t be a horrible solution. Games like Waltz of the Wizard, where you can talk to Skully, they don’t use AI but they instead have a bunch of funny reactions to things the player says or does.

Very cool idea. But, to any game devs out there, make sure you have plenty of actual human voice lines because if baldurs gate can do half of a million of them, you can too. Even if it’s to a lesser degree. You don’t need that many, but you SHOULD have a lot if you’re going to have it so the player can talk to the NPCs and say whatever they want.  

But it’s crazy how instead of using AI to make games better, you instead hear about how voices are getting stolen and used without a modicum of consent.