Comment by Tade0

    Toei Animation is looking to utilize AI in areas such as
    storyboarding, coloring, and “color specification,” as
    well as in-between animation and backgrounds.

    The specific use cases mentioned include:
    • Storyboarding: Leveraging AI to “generate simple
      layouts and shooting of the storyboards.”
    • Colors: Employing AI to “specify colors and
      automatically correct colors.”
    • In-betweens: Utilizing AI to “automatically correct
      line drawings and generate in-betweens.”
    • Backgrounds: Using AI to “generate backgrounds from
      a photo.”

I think this is fine. The director will still make sure there's no visual artifacts. On the other hand indies will be able to create their own works, maybe with some warts, but better than nothing.

We're discussing the implications of this here when this has presented nothing novel in this medium/genre? I gave it a shot and it still has the same pitfalls for video genAI. Dealing with chains of dynamic actions is the biggest challenge, moreso with anime with its several fight scenes. No, it did not do good, and none of the non open-source models can do a good job of it for the most part either

I could see AI being used for douga in the future.