Using AI to Colour 2D Animation with Cadmium App

Cadmium App

Artificial intelligence continues to offer new ways to speed up the animation pipeline and turboboost the productivity of animators. 

One new breakthrough comes from the Cadmium App, a new tool which automates the process of colouring 2D animation.

Cadmium is a creative tool for hand drawn animation. Using machine intelligence, animators can now colour their entire animation sequence from just a few keyframes.

Colouring Traditional Animation

Ink & Paint - How It Used To Be

Traditionally, 2D Animation was hand-coloured on acetate "cels" in the "Trace and Paint" Department. 

This process gradually gave way to digital colour techniques in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  However, even with digital colour tools, individual frames still had to be coloured individually - a laborious and painstaking process.  

Cadmium App

Cadmium App offers a new way to speed this process up, by automating the colouring of individual frames, saving a huge amount of time and effort in the animation process. 

You can find the Cadmium App here:
https://cadmium.app/#:~:text=Cadmium%20is%20a%20creative%20tool,from%20just%20a%20few%20keyframes.

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More About AI at Animation Apprentice
To see more about the use of AI (and how to get the best out of it) at Animation Apprentice see the blog posts below:

• Using AI to Make Better Animation
• Andrew Schlussel Explains How AI Can Help Creative Artists
• How to Use AI to Generate Story Ideas
• Animation Apprentice Graduate Christian Pall Joins Games AI Company

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