| it's def ai generated lol |
| I put some of them through an AI detection and it was like 90% certain for the three I tried. But it's a bit of a shame because I thought they looked quite nice, it didn't even occur to me that it might be AI, but looking at it now it seems pretty obvious. |
| Those are definitely AI. |
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| Those look very sussy. Definitely look like the generic AI style. |
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Reply to the_great_prince
So I guess the consensus is in, it's AI for sure. I said it already, but it really does make the show look cheap. Would it have been that much harder to have one of the animators make 7 stills? I guess studios are embracing AI because of crunch, but don't they realize is that it makes their studios look lazy? It's strange, this is a LiberxZERO-G show apparently but none of their previous works seem this sloppy. If I could sit at home and generate images that look exactly like the ones used in the show then there's clearly a problem. Instead of using tools that are literally available to everyone worldwide(as well as every other anime studio), wouldn't it be better for business to try to create something unique that no other studio could copy? I mean, they didn't even try with the prompts a little bit to change it from the generic AI style.
| @the_great_prince Yeah I agree, this really doesn't bode well for the production since it's also a collaboration. Almost makes me think that there's a LOT of production issues going on with this. I mean at least they aren't using AI for the non "fancy looking" stills, but this still doesn't look great. The timing of the AI stills seem to be pretty random and distracting too from a direction side of things. |
| I like to watch some anime, I like to talk about some anime, I dislike wars over some anime, but more than anything I love to live my life, anime is an enjoyable and entertaining addition onto my life but it's not my whole life. |
| In all images they either blurred the backgrounds or covered everything with speed lines which obscure the parts AI most often messes up. I think #5 is obvious. The frills on the dress look weird and she's got two left hands. Her face and the guy's suit are also slightly inconsistent between each image but I think the issues with #5 are stronger evidence. |
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| From my knowledge, they drew and colored the characters themselves then the background (from sketch) and painting are made with AI. It's not fully AI, that's probably why it's not mentioned in the ending but I guess it's a specific studio that works this way (not from Zero-G at least). |
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| A robot (?) anime using a robot (?) technology. idk if it's ironic or genius |
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| Apparently it's not AI from what I've seem now. Which would be nice. But who knows. They certainly look like they could be AI pretty easily. |
| Nooo I watched the first episode and turns out this uses AI? Those are still shots too, it wasn't necessary to use AI. Goddammit. |
"Nobody could laugh at someone who's trying their hardest" -Machio- |
| I can tell instantly with the last one, but the others look passable at a glance, which sucks. They seem like decent 'watercolor-y' paintings until you really look at them and pay attention, then they get worse the longer you look, unlike real images that usually get better, or more interesting. With a real image, you might begin to notice subtler details, techniques used,and little mistakes and inaccuracies (more often in non-professional works, but they can be charming) Every anime has scenes that cut corners somewhere, but I can at least appreciate human effort going into not doing too much work (example: Frieren EP5 - 21:26, the background is simple, maybe a bit barren, but it works). This is just not doing the work instead. A black and white sketch would be better at that point. |
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Yui_Suzumiya69 said: I love AI so I'm giving this a 10/10 now *insert IShowSpeed braindead gif* Why’d you have to be on my friend list… To me, it looks like AI, but I’ll wait for any official comment. The author has said it’s from an artist, so either the author wasn’t too hands on in production or the artist just used AI and didn’t tell anyone. I’ll put this on hold for now, don’t wanna support a project that includes generative AI. |
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| Urgh I really hope this isn't true. Not that I particularly care about this show but as an audience member and a lover of the medium this can't become accepted. |
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| Yeah screw that lmao. imagine getting your art animated only for them to use ai on still images... could have just used manga panels if they really didn't have time to make them. Unbelievable |
| Holy crap, I hope this is somehow debunked but this looks quite damning. Praying for it to be debunked, please... This was one of my most anticipated watches because the manga is adorable and fun. How deeply sad for the mangaka. And they just recently got their manga licensed and printed for the first time in English too. This should be a moment of celebration. |
| Did some digging and apparently the manga author praised the illustrations and also linked the artist website: Website: https://studio.mizunouta.net/ Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/79063903 She even has done artwork for Solo Leveling Season 2. |
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| They should’ve just drawn shit normally. Yes, it would’ve not looked as good compared to the manga which isn’t that pretty looking by itself, anyways, but it’d be more authentic than just feeding it into a blender and churning out such ugly glossy crap like this. Whelp, time to drop this, I guess. |
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| Welcome to the future of anime I guess… |
Reply to __andre__
Did some digging and apparently the manga author praised the illustrations and also linked the artist website:
Website: https://studio.mizunouta.net/
Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/79063903
She even has done artwork for Solo Leveling Season 2.
Website: https://studio.mizunouta.net/
Pixiv: https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/79063903
She even has done artwork for Solo Leveling Season 2.
| @__andre__ The website is filled with nothing but AI images. And it's shouldn't that hard to tell.   Unsurprisingly all her illustration works and credits are post-2020. This bitch is your usual "AI artist". |
| People here need to realize this is sadly going to be the future of anime. Not right away at least but as technology progressing AI is gonna get more prevalent. The worst part is the loss of human jobs but some animations themselves might look better and better as time goes on. Sadly because of greed more anime companies will rely less on human workers. Sucks to see but pandoras boxs has already been opened. |
Reply to Yui_Suzumiya69
Imagine getting butt hurt over a handful of still images yet ignoring the actual animated parts, lol. Pathetic.
| @Yui_Suzumiya69 Tolerating even a tiny bit of it leaves space for a slippery slope. AI can do animated parts too, you know? |
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Reply to Captain-577
@__andre__
The website is filled with nothing but AI images. And it's shouldn't that hard to tell.
Unsurprisingly all her illustration works and credits are post-2020. This bitch is your usual "AI artist".
The website is filled with nothing but AI images. And it's shouldn't that hard to tell.
Unsurprisingly all her illustration works and credits are post-2020. This bitch is your usual "AI artist".
| @Captain-577 Looks like this picture is from Hikari no Ou, and second season had similar discussion: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=2144022 Now I can see why in Marie it seemed so familiar to me, since right from the begining Hikari no Ou excessively used the same technique to highlight the scenes with stills of similar artstyle, and while at first I could pass it as an interesting way to cut the budget, it just becomes a huge disappointment once you suspect AI was involved. Honestly, now after a few years of getting exposed to more and more "art" like this, seeing it in Marie was instantly jarring to me. I don't know why would anyone in the art community would want to shoot themselves in the foot like this. |
| It is very obviously AI. Just look at the faces on the people in the crowd. Or look at the kick, the knee is on the wrong side of the leg and anatomically it looks very weird, while her foot that is still on the ground has mangled looking toes.  The only images that are passable are the ones with characters front and centre, not doing any complex movements, but even then it looks like generic AI art just with a filter on top. I'm surprised they didn't even bother going in to redraw some parts to make it look more believable. |
Reply to kronopy
@Yui_Suzumiya69 Tolerating even a tiny bit of it leaves space for a slippery slope. AI can do animated parts too, you know?
| @kronopy Lol, a slippery slope. So that's why we should boycott and crap on series that's also being worked on by a ton of legitimate artists, making conditions even worse for them in the process as we transition to even more AI being used to cut production time and effort. The only lesson studios will take away from this is that people only hate on AI because it doesn't look good (yet). Sorry, but AI is inevitable. |
| It sucks that they used AI for the stills in the first episode, I would say it'll probably also happen in more episodes to come. |
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| This anime will only be remembered for its use of AI-generated art. |
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| This is disappointing. |
| Yep... first 2 are a bit harder to detect, but if you look closely the lighting is way off and fusing into the characters a bit, also the composition doesn't really have a sense to it 3rd pic the feet are a dead giveaway 5th pic 2 left hands and the color of the legs don't match eachother and one leg's blood supply is getting cut off last pic chairs are very obviously copy paste of eachother with just some slight color variation, they're also in completely the wrong position for her to be carrying them and end up looking like they're just floting next to her Lastly what all the pics share is that the eyes are never focused of what the character is suppost to be looking at, common traid of AI generated images that give them that weird uncanny valley vibe edit: reading thru the rest of replies... are these images actually in the show??? |
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