The second post should reflect on your current research/work in progress for your individual video project. What are some potential ideas/topics you’d like to cover in your video explainer (e.g., if your video is about recommender algorithms, do you have a case study or example you want to include?) Make connections between your research and things you have encountered and observed in your own media engagement (e.g., have you read some research about social media algorithms that you can connect to your own social media use?)
For my video explainer, l think that l am starting to lead towards doing AI animation over AI art. I have had two main ideas in my mind; the first is covering the topic of AI within animated film and TV, how it is used, the programs, how it helps the workflow of pre and post-production and possibly what AI is being used for this. My second idea is more practical, during the research for assignment two, I discovered an AI animation generator where two keyframes are input and the AI generator makes the in-between frames doing the rest of the animating. For my video explainer l was thinking of comparing how the generator would work compared to hand-drawn animation, where l would create keyframes, put them into the animation generator see the outcome compared to the animation that l would hand draw myself, discover if it can improve or worsen an animation workflow, maybe even discovering if AI like these can teach somebody how to become a better animator. I feel that animation is such a wide topic to explore and this video explainer can go in multiple different directions. In my own media engagement, I interact with AI animation the most on Twitter/X as that is where there is a large rise in AI artists, and where my interest in this topic has come from as l see so much discourse on it every day. People are creating full animation scenes by inputting scenes from animated films claiming it as their work, which highlights the lack of creativity AI art truly has; this can also be brought up in my video explainer.