@Background Pony #F781  
Grow up already. You watched too much Hollywood movies, geez I don’t watch movies much because of this.

@Background Pony #9AC8  
I totally agree!

@Background Pony #1602  
It actually do pretty good job even without the color cues, they are there so you can force the color choices you want.
 
This program have no where near the range of a real colorist though, and when you play with it for a bit it’s limitations are becoming very obvious.

Calm your tits, everybody. The program needs color cues to actually know how it should color the image. To those who know how AI and neural networks function, that translates to “a slightly steroid-enhanced paint bucket tool”

@ender1200  
update: manged to get open cv working, but I’m getting all sorts of errors. Still need to learn what happening under the hood in there.
 
I would say that you should try to run it even without CUDA, see for yourself if it works.

@RosinSmoke  
I’m having some problems with open cv.

@ender1200  
I saw that requirements list too, bit unfortunately all GPUs I have are red ones. Anyway the software always checks first if GPU is CUDA-supporting and if not, switches to CPU rendering, and here’s the question: would it grind such picture in an hour or I’d need to go and search for used 750Ti if I don’t want to spend 2 days on 800x600 picture. Could you please check it on small samples, like, 200x200 for comparison both in CPU and GPU modes?

@RosinSmoke  
Reading the instruction on the git page, I’m pretty sure you do need CUDA to use it.  
I’m working on setting it up on my machine.

While unemployed kids speculate about jobs lost, have anyone tried to deploy it on local machine? How does it perform without CUDA-supported GPU?

I haven’t gotten myself involved in this discussion yet. So let me.
 
Artists are most likely safe for the next century or two at the very least. Modern A.I is simply have no awareness of the world around it outside the context of the training set and study parameters it was given.
 
In the end of the day neural network technology will most likely mature into another tool in the artist’s arsenal. One that allows them to do things other techniques can’t, but have it’s own limitations.
 
Actaully now that I think about this, we could get very soon to the state where neural network could reneder the comics colorsit position redundent. After all, you can train your neural network on a bunch of comics that were painted in the style you want, and examples of your own color desicions, and then just let it color your comics from then on it’s own. Colorists will only be needed to produce training sets and concept art for the Netrok to learn from.
 
From the perspective of other fields of works though, thing is, automation is coming. And a lot of jobs that today are being performed on low level will be automated.
 
There is most likely no way to stop it, we must instead think of how do we adapt? what jobs will this round of automation will create? how do we make sure the people who leave the field that are now redundant will be able to integrate into the new work fields?

@Captain Lackwit  
It’s true that it cannot replace truly unique artists and currently cannot — and may never be able to — replace the best artists, and it is incredibly unlikely that this sort of technology can even be extrapolated to line art without a truly colossal training set or the advent of true GAI, but even as it is this will eventually raise the bar regarding colouring.
 
They may be panicky neo‐luddites but there’s more truth in their words than most will admit. I personally doubt that we’ll reach that point in our lifetimes, and the endgame of all this in our children’s children’s lifetimes but some thought needs to go into how we’ll deal with a society where there’s only drudge work and specialist work. If we wait until we need the solution to think of it this problem can only end in tragedy.

@crapfest  
Not untrue, but at the same time this device only works by pulling the data of various sources- many of which are done by artists anyway. The point is, it takes artists to make these types of things even possible, and depictions of things never before seen or things seen many a time by a new, fresh set of hands is never going to be unsafe.
 
Many artists still believe that Tablets and such are just all sorts of wrong, and I imagine many artists believed anything but a brush was wrong, but easily accessible and usable art tools has allowed many, many good artists to come out of the woodwork who’d simply never had the chance before.
 
In short, this thing is no artist, but a compounding of many artist’s work, thus, an imitation.

@Captain Lackwit  
That’s a poor comparison. Though it’s true the internet involves a lot of automation, much of what is automated never was done by humans, and what little of it was is eclipsed by the number of jobs created within the same industry and requiring the same skills.
 
That said, while the reactions of the artists you were replying to are over the top their belief that automation will eventually take away jobs is hardly an irrational fear. Anything that can be automated eventually will be, and that includes running and repairing the systems themselves. A lot of heavy industry already went overseas and the little that has come back so far has been even more heavily automated. Think about it; for those industries the only reason to move back is because they now employ so few people that the cost of transporting the finished product to Western markets is higher than the wages of a handful of people running the entire operation here.

Oh wow this is fun!  
I’ve been playing with the web version for a couple of hours. I even made one image that might be good enough to upload.  
I wonder if I could whip up a training set for it using images from this site.

>People using a massive website’s forums on the vast internet to talk about how new automatic tools and automation is going to take everything over and that they won’t welcome these overlords but are using the internet.
 
>happening

@Cabrony  
you draw in krita? on windows?

It’s almost impressionist. Interesting.

A lot of artists are trying out Paintschainer and posting their results on Twitter. You can see all of the various results here: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23PaintsChainer
 
Some are impressive, some are lacking. It’s just really interesting to see a machine doing these kinds of things.

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@Background Pony #9AC8  
yeah this is neat tech but it looks really smudgy.

Seems I can’t get it to work. Oh well.

yeah im gonna go uninstall krita now,whats the point if Wall-E can just color anything with the push of a button.
 
gonna have to fall back on my college degree now =(

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@Background Pony #F781  

 
I disagree, I think this kind of technology is awesome. I also highly doubt a professional artist has anything to worry about as the machine lacks a subtle human touch. I think technology like this will help illustrators work more efficiently as it’ll quickly layout a base set of colors that the illustrator can then set out to refine.
 
Think of it like a tool, not something meant to displace you. In fact, when I used the program to autocolor this sketch, I had to do some tuning to get the network to color the picture the way it did. The program still needs a human behind the wheel.

@Background Pony #F781  
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