This is amazing. Do you think it would be possible to keep the coloring constant across an animation?
If so, you will certainly have a market for this. The coloring work in animation take a lot of time and is very expensive.
If so, you will certainly have a market for this. The coloring work in animation take a lot of time and is very expensive.
Plus this is far from perfect, it works best if you provide a lot of hinting and even then it produces results that may look pleasing enough but are not really close to what one has intended for a particular character design.
I would guess that it can be made good enough for some novelty videos but it's still far from professional production quality.
Specifically: What are 2-3 major companies that would profit? How does the current process work; do they make an entire uncolored scene and then color it? What do I have to google, to find example videos of uncolored animation? Can you ballpark how much it costs to color a 30min TV-Episode?
key animation, genga (原画)
uncolored: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/23064
finished: https://sakugabooru.com/post/show/23126
> How does the current process work;
This depends a lot on the production process used. These days it's anything between hand drawn frames with digital coloring to completely digital processes using 2D vector graphics or 3D models.