Creating an animated manga with GPT Image 2.0 and Claude Code
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But (and again, I know this isn’t the point of the article) the big problem is that its practically a bingo-card of all the standard AI catchphrases. The whole “This isn’t X, it’s Y” thing (“This isn’t just food, it’s a promise”), followed by short strings of little one-liners like “one customer, one box, zero mistakes.”
And it of course it went for the middle-of-the-road neonoir cyberpunk and to hammer home the "cyberpunk aspect" it threw in some rather unnatural sounding Chinese/Japanese? (未才東京...?)
For anyone with even a passing familiarity with AI, it’s an absolute banshee's wail of LLM-style prosaic banality.
I agree with what you said, but I think it's reductive for a few reasons:
- It was (and still is) amazing to me that GPT Image 2.0 was this good at making a coherent manga page in one shot.
- This project was focused mainly on the animation pipeline, not the manga page content.
- As with all things AI, it is up to the user's creative direction to make the output good. I did not give much creative direction at all to the example manga page, thus the AI catchphrases. With some guidance, this seems to be a very promising way to get your manga ideas onto "paper" quickly if you desire.
I actually have some examples of my own comics that I used to put gpt-image-2 through its paces, and the results were surprisingly good as well: