Animation - Age3rcm, Blender Anon, initial proposal for how to do animation, suggestion to use derpibooru for animation data, collecting leaked animation files, learning to transfer 250+ GB to each other, Clipper sorting the leaks, just render stuff, swf decompiler, check out JSFL, realizing differences between 3D animation and 2D animation, using modern JavaScript with JSFL, learning how Animate’s APIs work, idea to have animation AI follow the same structure as animation software, AI tells us animation AI is impossible, labeling symbols, Hacker Anon teaches us to mod Adobe Animate, Render Anon, bugs in Adobe Animate More anons joining in - Age3rcm, arfafax, Astralite, Render Anon, BFDIAnon (+note of how PPP positively affected his life), /g/ anons asking us for coding help, more datasets from persona nerd and gothic anon, Poopsikins Improving TTS or using it in new ways - 48khz upsampling, Flutterbitch, lot of experimentation, HifiGAN, SFX and BGM, Celestia rap, singing, abridged series, comment from 15 about PPP data being the best emotive dataset, using punctuation to control speech, the cocaine saga (skits with different TTS engines talking to each other), CPU speech generation, radio show (Dash and Twi in the morning, Great and Powerful Radio Show), using audio file formats to find good sound representations, getting Festival Multisyn working, 15 adding arpabet support, CPU synthesis tool from Delta, RD Let’s Play, 15 adding torchmoji, Cookie and 15 working together, Celestia responds to Anon’s letters, War of the Worlds, beginning of a full Rarity episode, RTX voice for data cleaning, making characters whisper, Pony Thread Simulator, getting chrysalis’ vocal effects, guided meditation with Luna, the model pronounces ponepasta properly, pondering a better phonetic language than arpabet and ipa, 15 serves over 1 million clips in a single day, pitch shifting for S1 Luna, audio super-resolution Branching out - Comic transcription, story labeling tool, animation, TPDNE, Blender Anon, SFX and BGM, labeling booru image tags, playing with GPT-3, creating music loops for anons playing with singing voices, first attempts at generating images, voice changer, drawing of twilight sparkle relaxing by the fireplace, greentext ai anon, pony butt dataset, StyleCLIP, Twi Chatbot from Astralite Cookie goes into debt and fucking dies Sells his home to pay for GPUS, dies of appendicitis, constantly coughing and wheezing, Cookie going into debt for the PPP, can’t believe cookie is fucking dead again Drama & news - Search “discord”, “eschelon”, AI dungeon going shit, synthbot destroys cookie-15 relationship by withholding Wheatley data, random anon gets pissy about names, kids on the internet taking credit for Delta’s/Cookie’s TTS, Wubcake butthurt, vocodes is pathetic, CLIP has pony neurons, iCartoonFace dataset for research contains pony --- Jun 13, the panel begins - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35448031 Rewriting the Master Doc Age3rcm joins the thread: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#35448894 We have no idea what we’re doing with animation AI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35448983 - The goal at this point was to label show animations. Maybe we’ll get to that at some point, but we have more basic tasks to do right now. - We hadn’t considered using the animation source files yet. We didn’t know if we could use those. Jun 14, Age3rcm explains the hard parts of animation. With the data we’re collecting, we should be able to support all of it. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35451502 The anon also offers a puppet for us to study. We have no idea what to do with it. Anon wondering how much of episode creation we can do with AI: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35451652 Suggestion to use OpenToonz: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35452170 Some Astralite anon has been working on finetuning GPT- 2 for MLP fics. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35453594 Persona nerd dumps a bunch of data. He and GothicAnon are the two non- regulars contributing data: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35454602 Jun 15, SnoopyAnon gets the ngroks to rap: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35455375 Age3rcm suggests having a library of poses. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35456770 Reading through OpenToonz docs to understand how animation works: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35458411 - First candidate task: create a dataset of poses Cookie training WaveFlow: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35458912 Anon transcribes the first comic with the hope of eventually getting pony chatbots: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35437062/#q35458966 Jun 16, Anon combines 22khz waveglow with 48khz tacotron: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35459204 Delta tries MelGAN- STFT without success: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35459351 No luck with Cookie’s WaveFlow: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35459382 Jun 18, using AI to speed up comic transcription: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35467076 Cookie’s Separable Channel WaveFlow (SmallWaveFlow) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35468026 Pony Life released We’re not clipping Pony Life. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35472117 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35499449 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35506821 Jun 19, Bipolar Flutterbitch - https://vocaroo.com/2TTI0600uLO - https://vocaroo.com/nLSpKar9PYc - https://vocaroo.com/hb03Ya0Kymy Jun 21, Delta tries out a FastSpeech 1.5, which was incorrectly labeled FastSpeech 2 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35483809 Cookie fucking dies from appendicitis - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35483928 Cookie tries every model that has the word “Fast” or “Flow” in it. (Plus AlignTTS) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35484133 Anon figures out how to convert 48khz spectograms to 22khz to use to fully- trained vocoder. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35484595 Jun 22, Clipper clips SFX and music. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35488157 Jun 23, Cookie gets GlowTTS working. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35491499 Jun 25, turns our we can use Google’s research TPUs for ponies - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35502429 Jun 26, I start trying to clean up our data pipeline (again) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35504994 Some ideas on what we can do with Animation data: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35507988 Jun 27, Blender Anon suggests using Blender for 2D animation - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35511199 Jun 27, anon suggests using JSFL to dump assets - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35513082 It was more difficult than expected, but this is ultimately the approach we’re following to dump asset samples so we can label them. Anon finds a FastSpeech2 implementation that uses arpabet - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35459053/#q35514576 Delta gets it running: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35517729 Anons learning to do AI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35523816 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35554024 Jesus fucking christ, it’s a dinosaur - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35524848 Jun 30, Celestia rap: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35529071 Jul 1, anon discovers that Cookie’s models can sing - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35531390 “tell Equestria to send a message to /mlp/con” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#35533408 Jul 2, more errors in the dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35535788 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35556240 (non- pony) Derpy being cute - https://vocaroo.com/gOLUo32ZCYM Jul 7, Blender Anon suggests converting FLA to XFL, which is easier to work with - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35563398 We’re (finally) working on this part Clipper finishes clipping SFX and BGM for the first two seasons - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35565432 We start collecting all the leaked animation files: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35567043 Jul 8, initial proposal for how to do animation AI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35567579 This gets trashed when we later realize we have enough leaked files that we don’t need to reverse engineer the puppet movements. Jul 9, Cozy says the N word - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35573332 Failed suggestion to use Derpibooru for animation data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35514662/#q35573372 Jul 10, drama over 15 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/ We decide to spend some time labeling *booru tags that describe animations - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35585054 Labeling tool: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35596892 Done on Jul 18 - - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35628309 Jul 12, List of which characters can sing: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35596077 Jul 14, GAN Ponies (TPDNE) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35606117 Jul 19, someone makes a Hal9000 model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35629206 Doc rewrite - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35630650 Black Cat finds a classification of emotions: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35631749 Cookie sells his home to pay for more GPUs and electricity for training models: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35633161 BGM’s abridged series: - https://u.smutty.horse/lwcdbgoktel.mp4 Jul 20, Cookie’s FlowTTS model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35582876/#q35637115 Jul 23, Blender Anon struggles with rendering XFL, which we’re doing again now - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35649739 Jul 27, - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35666914 >The dataset linked in this thread is probably the best emotive dataset I’ve seen and provides a very extensive range of voices, which makes it academically enticing to make use of as much of it as I possibly can for completeness. Jul 27, BGM’s unabridged abridged series - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35667457 Adorable Luna slows down for Anon - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35669224 15 offers the Wheatley data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35668649 Jul 28, some guy from Discord gets flamed - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35641633/#q35674333 Jul 29, Using punctuation to control the speech - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35678463 - This is in- line with the direction NLP has been taking for about a year and a half now (T5 architecture). Models that take natural language as input can be controlled pretty flexibly directly from the input. - This isn’t new, but it’s worth reconsidering and comparing to trends in AI. Blender Anon and I concur that getting the animation data will be an ungodly pain in the ass - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35679464 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35679909 - We had great foresight. Jul 30, Cookie looking into SSVAE - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35682029 Jul 31, The Cocaine Saga - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35687243 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35757598 Aug 3, CPU speech generation - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35697576 - Quality is awful, but it runs on a CPU - Facebook made one at some point, no clue how well that works TensorflowTTS + FastSpeech seems to be fine on a CPU too. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35698156 Snoopy’s Dash and Twi in the Morning - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35700680 Snoopy’s Great and Powerful Radio Show - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35700946 Aug 4, Anon playing with GPT- 3 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35701720 Scripted and voiced entirely by AI: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35678195/#q35701788 Aug 6, Comic Anon still going strong - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35709002 Aug 7, Delta and I consider using audio file formats to find good audio representations - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35715875 Aug 9, BGM considers making short background music clips to add to clips - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35724092 Cookie training models with controllable speech and emotion - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35725060 Aug 11, controlling emphasis - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35729445 Aug 14, /mlp/ takes the AI General away from /g/ - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35742084 Let’s fly to the castle - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35743795 Aug 15, voices are not protected under copyright or right of publicity - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35747457 - I spoke with an actual lawyer about this, and it seems to be correct Aug 16, anon gets Festival Multisyn working: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35752721 It’d be interesting to see how well this works if we auto- generate a bunch of speech to throw into its database - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35778690 Aug 17, anon on why you should clean your data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35708370/#q35754391 Aug 20, Blender Anon goes on hiatus - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35768126 Aug 21, Woodlore’s Insults Are Magic, by Clipper - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35772873 Aug 23, learning to do data stuff with Airflow - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35778929 15’s first luna model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#35778395 Aug 24, this guy saves me from reading 156 pages of technical documentation - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35783949 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35787396 Aug 28, the only reliable free tts out there - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35801459 Aug 29, collecting the leaks - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35803731 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#35804009 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35804698 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35804739 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35805870 - Thanks to a bunch of anons, Hackintosh, Rome. I think we managed to collect all of the leaks since the beginning of pony, about 2 terabytes. Aug 31, using CRC32 to deduplicate files - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35756787/#q35809383 Sep 4, All of the leaks collected and uploaded - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35825695 Cookie still trying to improve vocoder quality - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35827491 Sep 6, Cookie paused preprocessing while waiting for me to finish - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35833071 - I’ll never finish Cookie finished trying out AEF WaveFlow - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35835673 GTA datasets from persona nerd - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35835701 Sep 7, Synthbot sets up a docker container for running Cookie’s scripts - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35836067 - I’m not sure if this ever got used. We struggle to figure out how to transfer 250+GB to Clipper - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35835879 - And he gets it working: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35837012 Snoopy’s last clip for a while - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35838566 Delta showing off FastSpeech2: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35839912 Getting a better model: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35924052 Drawings of TTS: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35839777 Sep 10, “How could you possibly be halfway done?” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35850080 - Done on Sep 13: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35860472 Hell descends upon some anons: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35850044 Sep 11, anon dumps more datasets (Bob Ross, Nameless Hero, Witcher 3, Postal Dude, Glados, Cave Johnson, Saxton Hale): - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35851421 15 adds arpabet support: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35854778 Sep 12, Shim with an old model: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35811011/#q35855809 Sep 14, archive of the Dazzlings + Wubcake - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35865283 CPU synthesis tool from Delta: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35865354 From 15: “3 days on 8x V100s, the quality stagnated around 12 hours in” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35865590 Sep 16, Delta’s downloadable program with 48khz upsampling - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35873929 Sep 18, RD plays Minecraft - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35880833 Sep 23, Clipper joins in on comic transcripts - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35905437 Delta adds multispeaker support for local TTS - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35905611 Sep 25, Delta tries ESPNet - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35862765/#q35913973 Sep 27, Delta tries Multi- band MelGAN - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35922687 - A similar model is what Cookie is currently using - “Turning off mixed- precision yields a 5x speed increase” Sep 28, Refactoring my UI spaghetti code - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35926404 Sep 29, Can’t believe Cookie is fucking dead, again - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35928146 Another data dump, from persona nerd - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35930387 Sep 30, AWS kills 15’s models - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35933217 Delta hits the limits of FastSpeech2: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35933662 Oct 2, echelon being a faggot - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35938688 15: “multi- speaker models are working fine” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35938796 Cookie almost done with HifiGAN implementation - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35941007 15 testing torchmoji - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35942184 Oct 5, Regular “is this legal” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35950662 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36358165/#q36367414 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36358165/#q36367434 Oct 7, Wubcake dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35919362/#q35961014 GPT- 3 can troll twitter - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35962012 Oct 8, Chrysalis goes berserk (RealDash) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35962012 - Probably the darkest audio posted so far Oct 8, We still have no idea what to do with our animation files - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35965945 Oct 11, Comparison of all of 15’s models so far: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35983725 Start of a long friendship “- https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35984547” Oct 13, Back when AI dungeon was good - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35994839 Oct 14, Cookie and 15 trying to figure out why the ngroks are fast - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q35999534 - Not the first time Oct 18, Anniversary stream ends. Holiday is over. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q36024297 Idea for segmenting pony parts for image AI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q36024297 Oct 18, Creating a website with React - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q36024332 Oct 20, None of the big three animation programs use AI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q36031717 Oct 21, RealDash’s “Here For You” - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/35961555/#q36037599 Oct 22, SnoopyAnon still alive - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36043688 Oct 24, Celestia responds to anons’ letter, from SnoopyAnon - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36051218 Oct 25, Twilight sings a song mostly in tune (BGM) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#36053421 Oct 26, Snoopy’s War of the World skit - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36061625 - Probably the scariest clip posted to date Oct 28, First HifiGAN test - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36070571 Oct 29, Cookie on how to help with models - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36075311 Cookie trying 3 more vocoders - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36075397 Oct 30, HifiGAN showing more promise - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36079761 BGM posts music loops for anons to try out with singing voices - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36081656 BGM’s Pony Zone with Trixie - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36082668 Oct 31, Google breaking things in Drive without warning - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36085759 BGM helping Cookie train - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36089223 Nov 1, HifiGAN showing a lot of promise - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36089624 - We can finally get rid of WaveGlow Cookie going into debt for the PPP - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36091269 BGM only wants to create a glorious and prosperous Equestria - https://vocaroo.com/1oFUXNMxoASI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36095695 - Part of the opening script? Nov 2, SSVAE2 didn’t work - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#q36100089 - Might be worth revisiting with improved VAE training Nov 2, Idea to test on only the worst- performing samples - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36040521/#36099852 - Interesting idea, worked okay, but not using it Nov 8, AWS quirks that limit 15’s quality - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36104106/#q36127488 Nov 9, 15 offers GPUs for Cookie to use - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36104106/#q36130082 Nov 10, Trixie’s Talk Show by BGM - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36104106/#q36134709 Nov 11, Idea for a full Rarity episode - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36104106/#q36140527 Nov 13, Clipper’s Mayonnaise clip - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36104106/#36149233 Nov 23, Website is finally ready - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36195747 Nov 25, Can’t believe Cookie is fucking dead, again - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36205667 Start trying to work with our animation data: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36205766 - First step is to just render stuff from them Nov 26, suggestion to use an SWF decompiler - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36206449 We can just use Flashplayer + Actionscript. That seems to give us access to all the data, so there’s no need to decompile. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36208351 - It’s easier to work with FLA files, so we’re doing that instead. Plus we get more data from those (like symbol names). RTX Voice for audio cleaning - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36207827 Nov 27, Decide to check out JSFL for working with the FLA files - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36210813 - This is our strategy for the next several months. It’s poorly documented, but it mostly works. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36213900 Nov 28, Realizing the differences between 3D animation (well- researched) and 2D animation (poorly- researched) - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36159195/#q36218921 Dec 2, Synthbot destroys friendship between Cookie and 15 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#q36232781 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#36236563 Anons from /g/ come over to ask us for coding help. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#q36233793 Anon gets pissy about names - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#q36235139 Dec 4, 15 starts using HifiGAN for a huge improvement in quality - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#q36243463 Dec 5, labeling a story with audio queues - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36229360/#q36246468 Dec 10, BFDIAnon joins with his own models using Cookie’s repo - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#36265678 Dec 11, Making characters whisper - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36269166 Anon discusses getting scraped fanfic data: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36269210 Dec 13, Anon points out an interview where we can get Mr. Rogers data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36276057 Dec 18, Random kids on the internet taking credit for the models - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36296690 New Pony Zone - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36297754 Dec 19, Pony Thread Simulator - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36297754 Dec 20, Fixing Big Mac data to separate Orchard Blossom - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36305595 Dec 22, Getting Chrysalis’ vocal effects - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36265265/#q36313107 Using modern JavaScript with JSFL - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36314945 Switching to TypeScript: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36319531 Dec 23, Explanation of how to get started with JSFL in Adobe Animate - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36315087 Guided meditation with Luna - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36318605 - Could use this for hypnosis: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36318640 - Another one: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36356194 Dec 26, Slowly learning how the JSFL APIs work and how Animate structures things - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36328994 Learning to dump batch renders: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36332650 Dec 27, More data from GothicAnon - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36334309 Dec 28, We expect we’ll need 1Tb to 10Tb for the animation data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36337358 Dec 29, Considering using Vocaloid- like voice banks - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36340629 The model pronounces ponepaste properly - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36342248 Jan 1, Pondering a better phonetic language than arpabet and ipa - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36313553/#q36352434 Jan 2, Everyone’s PPP plans for the year - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36358165/#q36359430 Jan 3, Idea to have animation AI follow the same structure as animation software - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36358165/#q36361775 - “We had no idea what we were doing when we discussed this 5 months ago. We had long discussions trying to figure out how animation worked, what data might even theoretically be available, how we could reuse various animation tools to get the data, and how we could parse the data. We looked into OpenToonz, Blender, and Unity, read through a ton of manuals, tried to get JavaScript and Python libraries working, tried manually parsing the FLA files, and tried using ActionScript.” The AI tell us Animation AI is impossible - https://s2.desu- usergeneratedcontent.xyz/mlp/image/1609/70/1609701525741.png Jan 4, Over 1 million audio files served within the first 24 hours of 15.ai relaunch - https://twitter.com/fifteenai/status/1346267634136965122 Jan 5, Dumping renders of symbols complete - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36358165/#q36370004 Clipper notes (most recent 10 threads) 06 Jan 21: Synthbot Animation Update - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36374542 - Not much going on here 07 Jan 21 Synthbot Animation update - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36378065 - Figured out how to dump data in a way that Clipper can label them 07 Jan 21 Pinkie says Pog for the last time - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36379197 09 Jan 21 GothicAnon makes Postal Dude dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36385187 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36385387 Jan 10, Hacker Anon helps getting rid of Adobe Animate popups - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36389246 Hacker Anon explains how to mod Adobe Animate - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36374498/#q36389655 - We end up using this a LOT 20 Jan: Clipper finishes sorting animation data for Synthbot - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36436021 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36443900 20 Jan: First attempts at generating images? - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36432612 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36432856 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#36439722 26 Jan: Anon testing BVAE- TTS on Twilight and a few non- pony voices. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#36463090 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36469657 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36484126 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36484780 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36484832 31 Jan: 15.ai launches with updated UI - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36432529/#q36483421 5 Feb: Examples of voice changer/voice style transfer - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36487305/#q36508882 5 Feb: Synthbot patches Animate for “error opening file” popup. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36487305/#q36510277 8 Feb: Wubcake gets butthurt - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36487305/#q36524782 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36487305/#q36526758 12 Feb: "a drawing of twilight sparkle relaxing by the fireplace", Generated by The Big Sleep colab notebook, out of the box, no modifications. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36540860 13 Feb: Poopsikins makes a fully transcribed Adventure Dataset, 32 characters. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36548549 13 Feb: persona nerd makes datasets for every single character from Fallout 3, Fallout New Vegas, Fallout 4, Oblivion, and Skyrim. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36550153 16 Feb: Greentext AI anon publishes his models - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36565660 17 Feb: persona nerd makes The Frontier Dataset. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36567503 17 Feb: Clipper makes first post about making an image dataset. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36570114 17 Feb: More detail on laying ground work for pony butt dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36570114 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36571934 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36571978 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36575956 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#q36579564 19 Feb: Cookie updates ngrok - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36577018 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36536892/#q36577176 20 Feb: Clipper starts labelling pony butts - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36583042 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36587741 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36593472 21 Feb: DocAnon makes a tool for labelling pony butts - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36584495 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#q36596413 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36606471 21 Feb: More updates to ngrok - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#q36586749 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#q36589603 23 Feb: First HiFi- GAN Ngrok - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#36597481 24 Feb: 15 starts character spreadsheet - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36577682/#q36600976 02 Mar: Vocodes is pathetic - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#36654110 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36702679 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36702960 Mar 4, Render Anon writes a script to render exported Animate data - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#36667745 Mar 5, First bug report to Adobe - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36673634 08 Mar: OpenAI CLIP has pony neurons - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36688425 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36688427 09 Mar: BFDIAnon uses DeepDanbooru to generate sliders for TPDNE. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#q36693895 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36642950/#36677902 15 Mar: Vocodes continues to be pathetic - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36716553/#q36723629 16 Mar: Anon attempts to use pitch shifting for S1 Luna - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36716553/#q36723925 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36716553/#q36723930 16 Mar: BFDIAnon modifies ngrok with the | emotion feature - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36716553/#q36724150 16 Mar: Update to ngrok model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36716553/#q36725840 09 Apr: Anon adds audio super- resolution's been added to the HiFi- GAN notebook. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36829385 09 Apr: Cookie makes a new “GANTron” model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36829703 09 Apr: BFDIAnon notes that the PPP has positively affected his life - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36832097 18 Apr: Anon makes a training notebook for fine- tuning HiFi- GAN. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36874641 20 Apr: Anon tries to use StyleCLIP. - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36886176 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36886186 23 Apr: Delta makes a guide for using DeltaVox RS - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36898031 Apr 23, Adobe fixes their bug - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36828429/#q36899439 24 April: CliPPPer is born - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#36905521 25 Apr: Progress update on HIGAN decoder from GothicAnon - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36907814 28 Apr: AI Dungeon goes downhill - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36920466 30 Apr (I think) first post from AstraliteHeart on progress on Twi chatbot - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36930714 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36931495 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36931558 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36939551 May 1, Render Anon finds a second bug in Adobe Animate - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36933351 We report that one to Adobe too: - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37024977/#q37055445 03 May: Update from Delta about RNNoise performance on VCTK dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36944626 06 May: iCartoonFace dataset used for cartoon face recognition research contains pony - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36960732 07 May: Audacity concerns arise from purchase agreement - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36904619/#q36965041 09 May: GothicAnon finishes Mister Roger dataset - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q36973637 12 May: Update from Delta - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q36984307 17 May: Anon finishes animation script - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q37003821 17 May: Black Cat comments on IPFS - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q37005497 18 May: GothicAnon releases his script to make training data from Audacity labels - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q37011308 20 May: Delta add Starlight model - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36971917/#q37017282 21 May: AstraliteHeart updates Twilight chatbot with animation - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37024977/#q37025580 - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37024977/#q37026125 29 May: more info from AstraliteHeart - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/37024977/#q37055212 Other... Apr 29, 2021: AI Dungeon becomes the moral police - https://desuarchive.org/mlp/thread/36925051/#q36925051