Same with vectorizing rough pencil sketches: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11583368

I remember doing web animation back in 2000, and having to ink each penciled frame by hand, vectorizing the inked drawing and then coloring it in Flash. Now you can train a CNN to vector pencil drawings. Probably train a CNN to color everything too!

While I can see a lot of animation tasks being eliminated, I would like to imagine that they would hold onto some artists to spend some of that saved time embellishing and strengthening the quality of the final work.

But most of the heavy lifting will now be done with the press of a button. It's like Clarke said, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

Magical times.