Yes, the title says it all. Our good friend Tisa has produced yet another show-stopping extravaganza to ring in the new year, and we guarantee it'll rank high on everybody's Christmas list. Clocking in at a staggering thirty minutes, it is amongst the most innovative of Tom's animated films, featuring superb choreography, exceptional costume designs and impeccable camera work from start to finish. Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, TISAstudios presents the 2022 Winter Spectacular!!
Today, we have some old screencaps from the Glory Bee cartoons of the 1940s. According to Mark Donstein's Toonopedia, the animated shorts of the postwar period were collected and restored by Le Cine Achive De Paris and released in a DVD Boxed Set in 2006 (proving that French preservation societies treat animated material with far greater respect than the original American studios do themselves). However, as the Glory Bee Collection is only available in Europe, screencaps from the series are virtually unknown in America.
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Our heartfelt thanks to Churrinho, for introducing us to the truly amazing Different Dimension Me. While the system has a few limitations (see previous posts) DDM is not only capable of converting regular photos into anime-style avatars, but can actually improve on existing CGI. Case in point: we took this tired old piece from Kogaru Diaries:
So, we finally managed to access QQ AI once more, and immediately uploaded this image of our resident joshikosei, Saori and Keiko:
For some inexplicable reason, the AI had some minor problems with the background, but did a commendable commensurate job on the figurework:
The experiment continued with Saori & Keiko in their underwear:
And as expected, our trusty QQ came through with the goods:
So anyway, we decided to put the QQ AI through its paces, starting with a couple of illustrations from way back. First, we fed a pencil/watercolor piece through the system and were appropriately stunned by the results:
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We then tried out a traditional pen and ink cartoon, to see how it would interpret simple B&W line-work:
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Yep: Sally-Anne is in trouble again, and her creamy, white bottom-cheeks are going to pay the penalty:
Good, hard spankings in the HB (Hot Bottom) tradition!
