https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=78&t=3471&p=46003#p46003
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Endosphere
Wednesday, 21 January 2026, 03:20 PM

Re: Full-length Animation Movie "Lost Planet"
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In regard to the visual reworking, if you're pleased or intrigued by the AI filtering, then revising an older animation would certainly be a more efficient method of playing around with it, learning its strengths, weaknesses, and quirks.

If you're wanting honest opinions on the output comparison, my thought is similar to my earlier reaction. Both look like cg images, showing flavors typical of uncanny cg characteristics. Both images exhibit a general artistic style of realism, but neither looks much like a photograph of something in the real world. The particular visual style of both images is cg-realism, sometimes better called hyper-realism, which is different than photographic realism.

The original image had a quaint charm of uniqueness or even nostalgia, while the AI reworked image looks just like all the other AI imagery barrage flooding the internet. It's no slight against your own effort in this case; regardless of the input, this AI stuff all looks the same. My view is that makes it at best visually bland and uninteresting, but I appreciate that others don't share my view.

Going back to what I wrote a few months back, whether to continue in that direction depends on your own artistic and personal goals. If you're looking to make things that will appeal to current internet trends, then of course the AI look is very popular these days due to the work of the marketing people to promote it in search engines at the expense of everything else. There's nothing wrong with following current trends and styles-- most people in life are content to do little else. I think hobby artists should only follow trends if they genuinely prefer the style in question, as hobby is about passion rather than $$$, but that's not a common opinion, and not likely to get anyone upvotes on Reddit or other places of conformity and crowds.

Basically, my opinion is that AI filtering reduces the input of the artist, in favor of emphasizing 'the AI look' in the output. Certainly an AI image still exhibits choices of the artist in general composition, but in such visual matters as color saturation and lighting subtlety reduces the artist's input, changing everything to the preferred algorithm the AI is programmed to use. This is inherent in current approaches to AI, which is based on techniques of predictive consensus-- it's literally designed to process output to make it indistinguishable from everything else, with no originality or uniqueness.

On the other hand, it's very helpful that you were able to use AI audio filtering to accomplish otherwise impossible sound editing. That's the thing about new technologies-- we never realize their potentials until we start playing around with them, so the playing around part is an important part of the learning and comprehension process.