Forum - View topicINTEREST: Automatic Coloring Site Can Colorize Your Manga Drawings
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Narutofreak1412
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This is so much fun!
I'm playing around with it for a hour now and I can't get enough. Even without hint information somehow it seems to know what the hair, the eyes or the clothings are: https://twitter.com/Narutofreak1412/status/827005744692215809 Really fascinating and useful tool! Thanks for making an article about it. |
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Hikarunu
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Would be great if this is a PC software. I would buy this.
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marshmallowpie
 Posts: 300 Location: Nova Scotia, Canada |
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I've heard of people (people who don't know anything) making that stupid, impossible complaint about the computer "doing the work for you" in digital art, but with this colouring it actually has a bit of truth... kinda neat.
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CrescentWolf
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I can't draw personally, but this is still a really neat program for those who can, or just in general for those who want to color their manga pages and stuff.
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leafy sea dragon
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Has anyone tried this with line art of something that doesn't look a thing like anime? As someone who grew up on lots and lots of western animation and trained myself towards that, my personal style skews much closer to that of thick-line animation than anything else.
EDIT: Follow-up question: How good is it at non-flesh tone skin? I forgot I have an anthro doodle next to me (albeit on physical media--I just did it quickly when my computer was struggling to load something and I had to wait), and I'm curious as to how this program can process that. |
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Zin5ki
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The developer has been a good sport in this respect—the source code is available from the website's Github link, along with some rather spartan installation instructions. Sadly, it looks like it requires a specific type of graphics card to run the software locally. |
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Kadmos1
 Posts: 13555 Location: In Phoenix but has an 85308 ZIP |
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I wonder what Hayao Miyazaki would think of this.
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ajr
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Although I seriously doubt the quality compares with a skilled colorist, it looks decent-ish, and it's hard to argue with the speed. I've read some series where the art needs color to render the black and white linear comprehensible. How long 'til these people get bought by Google?
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leafy sea dragon
Posts: 7163 Location: Another Kingdom |
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All right. I've taken a look at what other people have done, and it looks like things that don't fit the normal mold are interpreted pretty well too, as I saw a good one depicting Snoopy at a smartphone lying down at a kotetsu.
I don't know if other people just stuck it in there and let the program figure it out, but for me, I had to give it a lot of hints. I was at it for about two hours, providing hints and removing others, that I think I could've colored this in myself lin less time. Every white spot also had to be specified. (I'll try again with the penciling erased.) 
For some reason, Paints Chainer insisted a white area near the base of the tail that I didn't really want. I don't know if it recognized that as a tail and gave it the shine or if it's just some quirk in the programming, however. But that was a spot I was stuck on for a while. I also discovered it's really bad at rainbows. (This was done mostly as a test to see how well it'd function under abnormal conditions, however. That, and the drawing just happened to be right in front of me, and was never really meant to be colored.) |
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