Wonder Animation – Video to 3D Animation

I&#x27;m using Wonder Dynamics for slightly different purposes (capturing and analyzing complex sports movements from video) and I&#x27;m deeply impressed by what it is capable of doing. While it still struggles with what state-of-the-art pose estimation and camera motion estimation models are struggling, the whole package and implementation are just insanely impressive. From the web UI that is incredibly fast even when uploading 4K@120fps footage to the final result - which is a Blender file and clean slate video for me. Extremely easy to use. A lot of love and care is put into this product.<p>Wonder Animation seems to be just a specific use case improvement over already impressive capabilities. Normal &quot;Live Action&quot; projects can also detect cuts, but the &quot;Animation&quot; project seems to understand the space from multiple cuts&#x2F;angles.

I&#x27;m a bit confused. While the demo looks amazing, I feel it is quite misleading along with some of the wording they use.<p>Is is actually creating the 3d environment and character models or are these premade, and instead, its handling solely character rigging and camera tracking?

Anyone surprised that Autodesk is citing blender in a non-negative light?

Welp, looks like one of the entry level jobs in VFX is now fully automated: the role was called &quot;Trackers&quot; and they did camera motion recovery, set&#x2F;prop placement recovery, and actor match moving, including facial performances (sometimes, that&#x27;s had a lot of automation attention for years.)

Looks really good, what are some use cases you have in mind outside the movie &#x2F; animated film industry?

lowkey if the tech keeps up with the demo, huge W for indie movie makers, or amateurs, used their tech last year and was surprised by how good it worked

It&#x27;s 2044. You wake up at 8am as a freelance VFX artist in the slums of Miami Islands. You pay 3.0 dogecoin to activate your Internet connectivity and refresh your ACACV degree. There&#x27;s a 12pm deadline for the 4D VR animations in the New New Yorker&#x27;s October 18th anniversary celebration of Jeffrey Toobin&#x27;s Zoom call. An update to Wonder Animation 35 is released, saying &quot;New: Retargeting for testicles.&quot; Rejoice! Your brain sheath rewards you with a lower dose of GLP-1 agonists. You spend the time you saved to earn points to claim an airdrop by watching a withered Elon Musk rant about electric boats.

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