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Space Ghost Coast to Coast
1994 · TV series · 15 min episodes · 10 seasons
Created by Mike Lazzo, Khaki Jones
A cartoon superhero interacts with live guests via his television set in this parody talk show based on 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon character Space Ghost.
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I couldn't figure out how to link the comment, but it was at least 9 months ago I said this, and someone was already working on it?? SUPER cool!
I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it could be done.
Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a show that was made by reusing old animations. If someone writes a script (use humans for now), then the AI/ML can stitch together the animation.
Once there's a corpus of material, start letting the AI determine plot points, and have humans vet and write it. Over time, let the AI take more and more control over the direction of the show, making sure to introduce new characters or events as needed.
I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it could be done.
Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a show that was made by reusing old animations. If someone writes a script (use humans for now), then the AI/ML can stitch together the animation.
Once there's a corpus of material, start letting the AI determine plot points, and have humans vet and write it. Over time, let the AI take more and more control over the direction of the show, making sure to introduce new characters or events as needed.
I've also been wondering if there is something similar to Content Aware Fill that can help process old 4:3 cartoons to 16:9.
A lot of the really old cartoons would use a background art image and would pan over it with the characters dong stuff to create a sense of motion. Sometimes the characters would move over a still background image but the 'camera's would zoom in.
Something that could extract the full size background image to apply it to the frames to enlarge the aspect ratio could go a long way toward revitalizing a lot of older cartoons. Especially fit could fill in any gaps using the opensource equivilent of Content Aware Fill (is there an FOSS equal?)
I've been trying to get my kids into Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Home Movies, Sealab 2021, the Simpsons, etc. If the video is wide screen they try it and enjoy it. If it's 4:3 they barely give it a chance because it's "too old"