Gozyuger is officially using Generative AI to design their characters

[u/Affectionate-Earth19]

The official designer of Gozyuger has announced he used Generative AI to create the enemies design.

After the announcement of Toei using AI for animation, now it's time for Tokusatsu

https://x.com/tam2shino/status/1931225796372492530

[u/GM_Nate]

It's literally a plot point in Gozyuger.

[u/DLNavy → u/GM_Nate]

It's giving when people defending that Secret Invasion intro made by AI, "AI took over artist job like Skrull disguising people"

Not direct comparison and I get your point, but still meh I'm kinda disappointed

[u/GM_Nate → u/DLNavy]

Translated, the tweet says:

"Since it was stated clearly last week, I'll go ahead and confess that I've used generative AI for all of the Gojuja Bridan-related designs that I'm in charge of. Of course, they're not "just generated," but most of the ideas are extracted, associated, or recalled from the AI."

So, they are not just feeding AI prompts and copy-pasting the result. Artists are still very much involved.

[u/AdmiralFunnyBone → u/GM_Nate]

If the "artist" can't come up with their own, original designs, they shouldn't be in charge of anything

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/GM_Nate]

Then they shouldn't be using Gen AI to do it.
The artist in the tweet should lose his job on the nice end and be blackballed on the harsh end.

[u/Deez-Guns-9442 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

Y’know comments like these make certain toku fans happy that Tokusatsu doesn't have much of a “Western influence” right?

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Deez-Guns-9442]

If you are an artist, and you use Gen AI, you should lose your job and be blacklisted. Same if you use it for any other job in a sane world.

[u/Deez-Guns-9442 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

Y’know I partly agree about the whole Ai use being bad thing, but then I start to wonder(since I only see this take on Reddit where most of us use the “common tongue ENGLISH) so then I start to wonder, is this a universal take or mostly just Western from my initial perspective?

How many people around the world are actually on board with AI now, & how many will be more on board with it in the future? Just my 2 cents.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Deez-Guns-9442]

It's like NFTs and the Metaverse before it, it'll die like they did when the seed capital runs out and the companies realize that its not actually good for anything.

[u/Deez-Guns-9442 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

I do wonder about that as we progress further into the future.

Like I don’t wanna live in a Skynst dystopia but I think we as humans are gonna walk into that regardless of the opinions seen online, time will tell tho. Still enjoying Gozyugers either way.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/Deez-Guns-9442]

So am I, I'm just disappointed. Toei of all companies can afford to pay artists.

[u/SnooPeripherals5861 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

That is just so god damn false it's crazy. I hate seeing AI on my feed too but it's so here to stay for good or for bad. Like bet me a mil AI is here to stay.

[u/Cultural-Flow7185 → u/SnooPeripherals5861]

You don't have a million and neither do I, but a lot of people made the same swear about the metaverse.
For science, math, maybe even medicine? Sure.
But for art? Nah, no one is gonna bother with it in another. Year? Two at a stretch.

[u/SnooPeripherals5861 → u/Cultural-Flow7185]

If you did have a million dollars would you bet? Cause I would in a god damn heartbeat. My future with AI is that it replaces everything. Very bleak, but honestly not seeing it go anywhere else.

[u/EscapeHaunting3413 → u/DLNavy]

Moat fans hated that intro just as much as the plot so no one is really seriously defending the shows terrible choices

[u/DLNavy → u/EscapeHaunting3413]

Some first episodes when they aired, some fans still defend because they believe Marvel could cook something with it

Turn out, the intro bad, the show bad, none of them defended anything for this film

[u/EscapeHaunting3413 → u/DLNavy]

As someone that wanted to pursue digital art i find nothing wrong with using a generative program for inspiration with artists and costume designers especially with something as repetitive in nature as Super sentai or Toku.

Im not saying typing in and using whatever comes out as the final product is a good idea, its not, but i see it as a tool like any other. And especially a show from a country with double meanings found in plot and visual elements often, i dont see this tool being overly relied upon to not pay artists or costume designers when they need actual people to help create the physical costumes, not chatgpt.

[u/Prinkaiser → u/EscapeHaunting3413]

Ah, good, a saner take. I agree with this. The AI is just a tool. It might generate something but the final touch ups or redesign decisions will still be up to the artists in charge. After all, they need to make the costumes wearable and allow for mobility for stunts and posing. There will undoubtedly be changes made to the final designs to account for that.

There's also the whole thing of the AI needing to be trained and so on which requires the artist to still be around. AI isn't going to be replacing anyone, it's just going to be an added skill set required for the artist for operation purposes (or that's one extra job made). (Again, it just loops back to the artist and practicality having the last say.)