The blogger “AI Madhouse” from Sichuan Province in mainland China released an animated short film “Journey to the West” generated using AI technology on the Internet. (Picture/reproduced from Weibo)
The advent of the AI model ChatGPT has aroused widespread discussion and attention from all walks of life. Time flies, and the AI industry has undergone earth-shaking changes in the blink of an eye. Recently, the blogger “AI Madhouse” from Sichuan Province in Mainland China released an animated short film “Journey to the West” generated using AI technology on the Internet. Although the production time was only one week, its shocking visual effects amazed netizens. Feeling deeply for the rapid development of science and technology.
“The Yangtze Evening News” reported that Mr. Feng, who has been engaged in art work for 15 years, said that this video would have taken at least half a year to produce manually, but he completed it in one week with the help of AI. With the advent of the AI generation model Sora, many people now Things that seem unattainable will become possible in the future. This animated short film of 3 minutes and 56 seconds is based on the first episode of the original “Journey to the West”. Through AI technology, the story of the stone monkey being born and learning skills from his teacher is vividly presented to the audience.
In the film, the entire heaven is highly recognizable. The palaces are built against the mountains in an orderly manner. The roofs are covered with golden glazed tiles, which sparkle in the sun. The Huaguo Mountain is full of tranquility and harmony, with lush trees and flowing water. Waterfalls and simple and elegant stone bridges together outline a picturesque paradise. The film also showed scenes such as Sun Wukong crossing the sea by boat, coming to the town, and heading to Lingtai Fangcun Mountain, which amazed netizens.
The blogger “AI Madhouse” from Sichuan Province in mainland China released an animated short film “Journey to the West” generated using AI technology on the Internet. (Picture/reproduced from Weibo)
Mr. Feng revealed that using AI to generate videos requires four steps, namely conception, using text to generate static pictures, making the pictures move, and editing. “The first step is definitely conception. Take the first episode of “Journey to the West” as an example. From the beginning of Chaos to the birth of the Stone Monkey and then to the apprenticeship, the first thing to do is to determine how many scenes and how many storyboards are needed.” He used ChatGPT to analyze the original text and let AI help plan the storyboard plan, and then he found the right one. .
Mr. Feng mentioned that after having storyboard planning, he used AI painting software to draw the desired scenes, and then used “picture-generated video” software to animate these scenes. During these two processes, a large number of scrapped manuscripts are generally produced. “At present, it is difficult for AI to fully understand what I mean. Whether it is pictures or animation clips, the randomness is relatively large. Every time I use AI to generate a lot of these materials, Find the right one and then move on to the next step.”
He continued, “The rest is to put the materials together and edit them. I will think of the lines myself and then use AI to dub them. I will dub some special characters myself and use a voice changer to change my voice. I can use it again during editing. Polish the sound effects,” and finally add transitions, background sounds, etc., and an animated video generated by AI is born.
The blogger “AI Madhouse” from Sichuan Province in mainland China released an animated short film “Journey to the West” generated using AI technology on the Internet. (Picture/reproduced from Weibo)
“AI painting has caused many controversies since its advent. Illustrators believe that AI uses their own works for training, and now it is turning around to steal their own jobs.” Mr. Feng said frankly that the iteration of AI technology has indeed affected the interests of some people. “But there’s nothing we can do about it. It’s like Pandora’s box. Once it’s opened, it’s impossible to close it. There’s no point in trying to resist it.”
Take the “Journey to the West” animated short film as an example. Mr. Feng used AI to produce more than 3,000 pictures, and finally selected about 200. In the past, even a senior painter would have needed at least half a year. As for making the pictures “animated” It’s even more impossible to get up.
