When AI painting starts to grab the job of anime artists

2023-07-24

Every change in productivity not only brings technological progress and higher efficiency, but also inevitably brings about a change in talent. In the past few years, artificial intelligence has made rapid progress, including "image generation technology" based on machine learning and deep learning. The emergence of ChatGPT4 has lowered the threshold for AI drawing to almost zero, allowing ordinary users to output images with unique style and imagination by simply entering text sentences. However, the side effects brought by this have been the intense turbulence in industries such as animation design, illustration, and game design. Many gaming companies have introduced AI painting into their workflows to alleviate the talent pressure and financial anxiety brought about by the gaming industry. Some game teams have cut off the original art outsourcing team, while some game outsourcing companies have directly laid off half of their personnel. "The original artists use Al to complete the plan, which can improve work efficiency by at least 50%. Previously, the company needed 38 original artists, but now it has laid off 20 people. The company does not support idle people!" revealed the technical director of a game art outsourcing company that has just completed the layoffs. AI drawing is unstoppable, how can design professionals respond? At the ongoing Beijing Animation Week in China, anime industry personnel discussed this issue. The current situation is that companies have reduced their workforce from over a hundred to 30. "The animation and game industry is a creative industry that integrates labor, and how to save costs, improve efficiency, and improve efficiency is the focus of most animation companies. At this time, artificial intelligence AI has emerged, which presents unparalleled advantages in text generation, early art design solutions, and efficiency improvement in mid-term details Zhang Juan, Dean of the School of Film Television and Animation of Chengdu University, has been paying attention to the impact of AI drawing on the animation industry. She introduced that compared to the production process in the middle and later stages, AI technology has the greatest impact on industries such as comics, illustrations, picture books, games, and art design in the early stages of animation, which mainly focus on graphic creative expression, Especially in the sketch presentation and refinement of conceptual art design solutions, AI has a strong substitutability. In the early stage of 2D animation, as well as the lead author of comic illustration companies, positions such as conceptual art design in the early stage of games have also been impacted. My colleagues and I have found that these positions have experienced varying degrees of recruitment reduction or layoffs, as well as job mergers, Zhang Juan discovered a Sichuan original painting outsourcing company that participated in well-known game projects such as "King of Glory", "Three Kingdoms Kill", and "The Fifth Personality". After the popularity of AI painting, the number of people in the company has decreased from hundreds to less than 30, Not only that, but its original drawing projects are also being reduced. In the current recruitment of animation and game companies, we have found that everyone is recruiting AI painters, and the job requirements clearly indicate the need to generate completed drawings based on the project, proficiently use various AI drawing tools, and refine AI production drawings according to project requirements. Zhang Juan pointed out that AI currently has a significant impact on early animation companies, 3D Company is unable to adjust its production mode as a whole during the mid-term stage of the project, so it is temporarily less affected by AI impact. However, this is temporary, the iteration of AI is not

Edit:XiaoWanNing    Responsible editor:YingLing

Source:Beijing Youth Daily

Special statement: if the pictures and texts reproduced or quoted on this site infringe your legitimate rights and interests, please contact this site, and this site will correct and delete them in time. For copyright issues and website cooperation, please contact through outlook new era email:lwxsd@liaowanghn.com

Return to list

Recommended Reading Change it

Links

Submission mailbox:lwxsd@liaowanghn.com Tel:020-817896455

粤ICP备19140089号 Copyright © 2019 by www.lwxsd.com.all rights reserved

>