Just wanted to say I appreciate your responses man. I love people with zero animation experience explaining shit they have no idea about and then when you create a reasonable, coherent response, receive a “lol you mad bro”

Most people here who never animated, let alone work in the actual industry have zero idea of what makes animation good. They look at something that surface- level looks similar and think it changes everything. The fact that we’ve had motion capture for decades, and it’s still preferable to use it as reference and hand animate most things shows it’s pretty clear that simply recording motion and generating images from it isn’t going to cut it.

I can tell we won’t see eye to eye on this so I’m not trying to convince you or anything.

Creative thought is something essentially every human in the world has to some capacity, so sure everyone is an artist. It doesn’t make them an artist to the degree we are talking about though. I feel like the bare minimum required is being able to physically convey your idea yourself, no matter how good it bad it may be.

Asking an AI to make you something, that has been trained on millions of actual artists good images, doesn’t make you an artist in my opinion.

Being able to create art “mentally” but not having the ability to physically do so is such a ridiculous concept.

Just being able to imagine something does not make you an artist.