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UtopAI issues
Hi everyone! I'm writing to report a problem I encountered while testing UtopAI. I entered the script and dialogues very precisely and accurately to direct the process. As far as generating keyframes and animations goes, I've been pleasantly surprised. The dialogues, however, are a disaster! I don't know if it's because they’re in Italian (although the platform is multilingual, so it understands what I write perfectly), but it doesn't respect the texts I entered at all and translates them into approximate English that doesn't even slightly match the Italian text. Can anyone who's tried this give me some pointers? Thanks!
2 likes • 17d
@Michel Diamantis It could be fantastic if the English dialogues matched the Italian ones, but in my case not only are the sentences completely different, but also the meaning, and this makes the animation unrealistic! Ugh!
2 likes • 16d
@Michel Diamantis thanks a lot. I’ll do it!
Animation Finished!
Took a long time, but now it's done, I am thinking of adding a bit more polishing to it because the artstyle jumps around between shots, and I am looking for ways to have the style consistent. But at least I finished something
2 likes • 24d
Well done! Some little art style modifications, but really good!!!! 😊
First three minutes of my current project
Here is the first three minutes of my current project, which will probably be about 10-15 minutes when done. I am not happy with the way the appearance and voice of the characters slightly but noticeably changed, especially from Dzine lip sync. I also think that some of the scene changes look awkward, forced, but I'm not sure how to fix it. I have one question, and I'd love opinions. Should I keep the musical backgrounds? Originally it was all forest noises, but later I added some soft background music. I can't decide if I like that, or if I should just go back to forest sounds.
0 likes • 25d
The idea of the leaving the background music is good. Maybe you could change the way it interacts with the characters according to the mood of the dialogues. Usually a little bit of strings crescendo are good to increase the tension, and something could introduce the cat appearance too creating a sense of surprise.
Annoyances I'm learning about
Now that I've been working with AI video creation for a month, I'm coming to grips with significant problem areas which the rest of you may also be suffering. I invite comments if you wish. 1) I can't be specific about this, but scene changes often feel abrupt, even jarring. When the camera moves to a different shot, it feels awkward and amateurish when I watch it. I wonder if there are camera change rules that would reduce this problem. 2) OpenArt's Consistent Character 2.0 does an excellent job of creating consistent characters in still images, which may then serve as video start frames or lip-sync scenes. However, most or all image-to-video models are not so good at keeping the character consistent. The character's facial structure may change enough to be noticeable. Sometimes even the clothes change! 3) Dzine's lip sync, which seems to be the only choice when there are several characters in the scene, does a fabulous job with lips, but it often makes crazy changes to the character or scene. I've had it turn a blond's hair to black. I've had it give a clean-shaven man a beard. 4) Text-to-Speech apps such as ElevenLabs change the voice tone and inflection every time you generate. This is good in that it lets you pick the best of several tries. But there is no way to keep the timbre consistent across scenes. I can generate a speech in one scene, then use the same character with the same emotion directives in the next scene, and the voice changes enough that it sounds like a different character. These inconsistencies make the finished process look and sound amateurish. A character who is supposed to be consistent can change in both appearance and speech, sometimes enough to be mildly jarring. It's frustrating to be so close but not quite there yet.
1 like • Mar 7
I'm still experimenting and I'm just starting out, but I've found that Leonardo AI does a good job when I ask it to animate a static image; it doesn't change the background or even the characters, as long as I use the right and most detailed prompt possible. I encountered the problem with Open Art, because the lip sync isn't always correct (perhaps because my audio is in Italian and it decodes poorly), and indeed the mouth isn't always consistent with the character's drawing, sometimes almost seeming stuck there by accident. I don't have any problems with voices because I record them myself, so they're always consistent. However, I repeat, I'm just starting out, so I still have a lot to figure out.
[NEW TUTORIAL] Complete AI Animation in ONE Place (No Editing Software)
Hey there, You know how creating an animated short usually means juggling 3-4 different tools — a script doc, an animation app, a video editor, and hours of stitching everything together? What if you could skip all of that? I just dropped a new video where I go from a story idea to a fully finished animated short in minutes using ONE platform called Pai by Utopai Studios. No Premiere. No CapCut. No timeline editing at all. Now if you are like me, then you can take the finished animated sequence and edit it more to polish it as I show in the video tutorial today. Here's what blew me away: ✅ You write your script right inside the tool ✅ It generates characters you can actually approve and adjust ✅ You get full keyframe control, so it's not just "AI slop" ✅ You can export to 4K if you want to fine-tune in your own editor Whether you're just starting out or you've been animating for years, this changes the game for how fast you can go from concept to finished piece. 👉 Watch the full walkthrough here I show you the entire workflow step by step so you can follow along and try it yourself. 🔗 Try Utopai here
3 likes • Mar 5
It could be a possibility, I guess, but I’m asking myself if it can do something else but anime or realistic style videos. According to my needs I want full control over everything, that’s why I record all voices and music by myself (I’m a perfectionist, maybe a little bit too much of a perfectionist, but It’s me, what can I do?) and my educational videos are definitely longer than a few seconds and no AI could manage more than 8” at the moment. I’m learning a lot about direction in this course, maybe having more skills will help in directing this kind of tool too. We’ll see… I’m a little bit skeptical.
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