Ascendance of a Bookworm anime studio acknowledges gen AI use in opening, promises to replace offending scenes with hand-drawn art - AUTOMATON WEST
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Following backlash after the anime's premiere, Ascendance of a Bookworm production studio WIT addresses the generative AI usage allegations.

The fourth season of the Ascendance of a Bookworm anime, produced by WIT Studio, premiered on April 4 this year, though to an unexpectedly rocky start. The long-running series was faced with serious backlash after the reveal of the animated opening sequence, which viewers suspected featured AI-generated assets. In response to the criticism, WIT Studio posted an official announcement on April 10, in which it states that upon investigation into the opening’s production process, it confirmed that generative AI was involved. Consequently, the opening sequence recently published on YouTube has been removed from the platform. ……

  • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    The greatest sin in anime is the texture of clothing. This is most obvious in the Count of Monte Cristo anime due to the art style.

    Gankutsuo, if that’s the one you’re talking about, was also a very early (possibly the first) use of the technique. I can forgive a pioneering show for getting things wrong. Its successors aren’t always as easy to forgive.

    Much worse than messed-up clothing textures is the occasional show that puts a texture over the entire picture (the most blatant example I’ve ever seen used a watercolour paper type one, but damned if I can remember the name of the show), but binds it to the viewport rather than the background, so that when the camera pans or zooms, the texture moves with it and completely destroys the impression I think they were aiming for.