The "The Dog & the Boy" anime short is made by WIT Studio and features AI-generated backgrounds

Tuesday saw the debut of a brand-new Wit Studio anime short titled “The Dog & the Boy” (“Inu to Shnen”) on Netflix Japan’s YouTube page. The clip includes backdrops built by AI (based on human-created concept art and final touch-ups). The backdrops are solely credited to “AI (+Human),” but do not mention who created the concept art or the final touch-ups to the backgrounds, according to Netflix, who claimed that the move is an effort to address the “short of personnel in the anime business.” Short film directed by Rytar Makihara with background help from Rinna AI The “The Dog & the Boy” anime short is made by WIT Studio and features AI-generated backgrounds

Director, storyboarder, and key animator Rytar Makihara and character designer and CG animator Mathias Demongeot are both involved in this project. Producer Taiki Sakurai. For the development of AI, the Rinna AI firm is acknowledged. Production I.G and Wit Studio are acknowledged for providing production support, and the Netflix Anime Creators’ Base is given credit for the work itself. The editor is named Aya Hida. In charge of composing is Kji Tanaka. The colour coordinator is Yko Fujita. The animation supervisor is Chieko Ichimanda. The company’s qooop, Inc. and dugout Inc. are both given credit for different aspects of production, including sound.

The anime’s “AINOUTA” (Music of Love) theme song was created by sasakure.UK and features AI-code”M.”

The clip was created by “Anime Creators’ Base” on Netflix. In September 2021, Netflix opened the base at its Tokyo office. Designers Namiko Ishidate and Saina Cisse are working in the new base’s “Designers’ Garage,” which is a space intended to support artists as they make conceptual art.

In order to create the WIT Animator Academy and train future animators, Netflix teamed up with Wit Studio and Sasayuri Video Training Center in February 2021. The first course began in April and lasted for six months. Netflix intends to pay the program’s expenses for several years. Graduates will create the in-between animation for the Wit Studio or Production I.G. produced Netflix original anime. Netflix has said that it may eventually broaden the scope of its funding for animators.

The creation of artificial intelligence software to ease the burden associated with anime production has been a long-term objective of the IT sector. In 2017, Yuichi Yagi of Dwango debuted an AI software that generates in-between animation. Then Dwango declared that some of FLCL Progressive had used the application. The Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Imagica Group, and OLM Digital collaborated to create a method for autonomous colouring, extending the capabilities of AI.

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In 2016, academics Jun-Ho Kim, Minjae Kim, Hyeonwoo Kang, and Kwanghee Lee of the video game business NCSoft (Guild Wars 2) unveiled a programme that employs Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to turn actual individuals into anime characters. A single image and a voice recording are all that are needed for the DeepAnime artificial intelligence engine from AlgoAge Co. to produce talking animation. In order to automatically colour certain of its online manga publications, the manga publisher Hakusensha has started using PaintsChainer.

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