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I put a Manga pictures into an Ai driven lineart coloring tool.
- Thread starter KillLaCam
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I tried it on some of my own art. It's still relatively dumb in that it doesn't see connections between areas, but it can still figure out where an area ends even without strict lines. With a lot of fine tuning, it's a quick way to colour pictures that you otherwise wouldn't have bothered with.
Actually, a similar site was available years ago: Paintschainer. The major difference this has is that it can attempt lighting the picture, which is quite impressive even if it's rough. Figuring out how light falls on a body is one of the trickier things with colouring.
Actually, a similar site was available years ago: Paintschainer. The major difference this has is that it can attempt lighting the picture, which is quite impressive even if it's rough. Figuring out how light falls on a body is one of the trickier things with colouring.
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This came out brilliantly.
With a few small small tweaks youd easily fool me into believe this was a full color job done by a human.
I'm thinking this would be really useful if you separated your drawing into layers then fed each layer individually to have greater control/accuracy sometimes. Is there any way to download this or is it online only?
Kind of missing the point. The cool thing about this is that the program is able to execute a fairly advanced task on its own. It's more about the automation being this advanced than the actual results, even though some of the coloured pictures looks fairly impressive as well.
Yeah, as I feared: it has the ability to create something it calls flats. But they're not flats - they're JPEG-artifact-ridden messes :(
Yeah they made a manga of Maken X that had a different approach to the game but also expanded some details that was cut out.
I had to read the book, but it was mostly long and boring, so for me that was the only good part of the book. It was a very unique predicament. What happened in the end of the movie version?
I wager it's a bit of both these days. Print manga and anthologies are still a thing in Japan, so are costs. However the look of black and white manga has become both a stylistic choice and a technique - working with a limited value range and tones to describe form and shadow. Expertly drawn manga with high contrast and half-tones doesn't need anything else. It's the reason why none of the examples shown look better or improve on the original art. It's impressive that AI can color images sure, but the results are garish and only serve to flatten and diminish the work.
Yes, I realize I'm being a snob and nobody asked me in the first place, but I've heard the "this manga would be so much better if it were colored!" comment so many times that I have to believe part of the appeal of software like this is so fans can alter the works of others to their liking instead of enjoying it as the creator intended. At least that's where I see this heading. Anyways I'm going back to bed... I'm old and I'm cranky.
There's a github page, so it's possible to clone the repository.
However, running the AI may require a lot of processing power.
You may be putting Peter Jackson out of a job.i tried
They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) - IMDb
Unbelievable. My drawing skills are fine, but I suck at coloring... Can't wait to try it on some of my stuff.
I don't know if this is going to be good or the stuff we dread in a long run
Isn't Black and White manga a budget and timescale issue rather than a creative choice most of the time?
I disagree.
It cuts down the time it takes to color a page by half. The person coloring the page would only have to finish off the product with small tweaks.
This is a gamechanger imo.
Yes, I believe so. I'm not making the argument that it isn't - just pointing out that it can be a stylistic choice too. However, even as a budget and time management choice the use of inking and screentone techniques are still necessary to make black and white images stand out and look good. There's a reason why you don't often see the use of screentones AND color together. Tones are usually used as a stand-in where colored or shaded areas might appear for example. The point is... most black and white manga are created to look good without the use of color in mind, and are never intended to be colored. That isn't to say that some manga haven't been successfully colored after the fact, or that some don't look better colored. There are examples of this as well. But a blanketed AI coloring tool being applied to classic work as an "improvement" rubs me the wrong way. Anyways I guess I'm done raining on the parade. The technology is neat. I just feel it's being misused in this manner. Now back to my rocking chair.
I really hope none of the mangaka who drew the panels that have been used in this thread to test it, would look at the result of and go "yeah this is good, a few coloring tweaks and it's up to snuff"
