And then Suzuki asks them what their goal is for the program, which is where this writer, for one, loses a bit of sympathy. “I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself,” he continues, and says that he’ll never use a technique like this in his work.ĭuring the gut-wrenching silence that follows, the camera pans over to the suddenly tearful faces of three researchers.
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The first thing Miyazaki does is point out that demonizing this kind of cramped movement demonizes real people who may lack a full range of movement, including a close friend of his. You can see his reaction in the video below, but fair warning: It’s devastating. Miyazaki was not pleased, and said as much. So they’d made it look like a zombie, and were presenting it to Miyazaki and Suzuki as a potential moviemaking tool. The most efficient forms of locomotion their program had found was various shambling crawls using its hips, neck, and shoulders - it all looked pretty painful. Usually, the results are pretty goofy.īut at Dwango, experts had given their AI program a grotesque form, with mismatched limbs and sickly, mottled skin. There are plenty of AI labs interested in recreating human movement, in the hopes of someday creating computers that can interact with a real environment the same way humans do. In late 2016, Miyazaki participated in a special television documentary about Kemushi no Boro, which recorded him sitting with Studio Ghibli producer Toshio Suzuki ( the guy who reportedly sent Harvey Weinstein a katana as a threat) as they attended a presentation at the Dwango Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in Tokyo.Ī few members of Dwango’s staff sat down with the famed animators to present a program they’d created in which an AI generated methods of locomotion for a humanoid form.
But he has made one 10-minute all-CGI film: Kemushi no Boro, or, Boro the Caterpillar, which can only be seen at the Mitaka Forest Ghibli Museum near Tokyo. A hand-drawn animation fan by history and heart, Miyazaki has largely declined to incorporate-computer generated animation into his movies, except in the most minimal ways.
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