Batman/Robin vs Bruce lee/The Crow

[A. Pennyworth]

Impressive

[BiffPow]

Was that actual stop motion or was it created by an app?

[AndyFish]

Doesn't play for me, those look like Hot Toys, so might be actual stop motion.

[BiffPow]

A friend of mine used an AI app called nauk nauk to animate his Ben Cooper kid superhero figures. It’s designed specifically to animate action figures. It’s pretty impressive.

He provided just one picture, and very few prompts, and it came out great.

If you add more than one picture, from different angles, it can zoom in and zoom out and add even more motion in between.

Here’s an example I found on YouTube:

[BATWINGED HORNET]

Hot Toys' attention to detail played so well in animated form. That would not work with 6-inch or the larger Neca figures.

[AndyFish]

Ah, figured out the problem. My Mac won't allow Facebook to track me or implant any cookies, hence the video wouldn't play. I happened to stop by a good friend's house the day after Halloween to give his kids whatever leftover candy I had and he has a PC Computer in the family room because his mother in law is a Facebook addict, so I asked if I could watch something there.

The animation is remarkable smooth, as someone whose done a lot of stop motion-- even teaching it on a collegiate level, I'd say so smooth that it's either the work of a professional on a level with Willis O'Brien (King Kong 1933) or it's computer generated, and sadly I think that's what it is.

AI is coming and there is not much good in that in my opinion. This will put a lot of animators out of work.
But as for the video, I agree those Hot Toys figures are great for using them. Imagine if the AI thought to insert the different lower face options in the Adam West figure, like NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS we could have had changing expressions.

Still, I can't not feel bad at the death of an art form, and I won't ever support AI.

[BiffPow]

The animation is remarkable smooth, as someone whose done a lot of stop motion-- even teaching it on a collegiate level, I'd say so smooth that it's either the work of a professional on a level with Willis O'Brien (King Kong 1933) or it's computer generated…

Andy, if you zoom in, there’s a faint watermark for a website called dgdxanimation.com. I clicked on the link and it took me to https://www.dmgalloway.com/ operated as a one-man show by D.M. Galloway, who has been doing stop-motion animation for 15 years or so. He looks to be an old school stop-motion animation artist, as his work predates the AI revolution. NECA it is one of his clients, and he does commercials for them, as well as work for Disney, etc. Based out of Brooklyn.

Coming from you, your praise of the skill - even to thinking it is so smooth that it could be AI - is high praise indeed!

[AndyFish]

That makes me feel better about it.
Excellent work.