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Artificial intelligence is far too often a solution looking for a problem.
And thats exactly what serial creator Nick Bilds done (again) with his novel AI-powered stop-motion animation system.
Simply put, the big problem with creating stop-motion animation is that it takes forever.
Typically speaking, it takes hours worth of work to capture a few minutes of footage.
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And if it isnt easier, its usually more fun.
But, Nick Bilds new system cuts that tedium in half.
In the above video we see the typical life of a stop-motion animator.
Bild spends about 2 full minutes wiggling Lego characters around.
Its slightly more riveting than watching paint dry.
And, voila, its a pretty nifty little stop-motion video.
Its a simple computer vision system running a hand-pose estimation algorithm.
It just takes a single picture anytime theres not a hand in the screen.
When a hand shows up again, it waits for it to leave and takes another snap.
Bilds taken half the work out of shooting stop-motion with the clever use of AI.
Hats off to Bild for this awesome gift to would-be amateur stop-motion animators around the world.
And a hat tip toHackadays Tom Nardyfor spotting this cool little AI project.
Check out the whole projecthere on GitHub.
