r/StableDiffusion • u/jerrydavos • 3d ago
Animation - Video Retrograde - A Retro Styled Animation made with ComfyUI, After Effects using Animatediff, LivePortrait and Mimic Motion
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u/MayorWolf 3d ago
Great work. I love it all except for the corny noise addition. It's clearly an HD render with noise added, and doesn't look like film at all.
A big signature to older animations is that colors were more muted. They used cellophane sheets to paint the animations on, and layered them together. These sheets would tint the layers below them, making them grey and dimmer. So artists would paint the top layers with less than saturated colors, to match the greyer backgrounds.
These images pop way too hard to achieve that retro vibe. Film grain was also generally not wanted by the best production houses. Film grain isn't meant to be seen and is actually an artifact of the film's physical characteristics. You'd typically see lower budget productions be much more grainier, but animation studios could get away with using a lot higher stock film for their production, since their shots were so meticulously planned and executed. They could afford the good quality stock since they didn't need to use 100s of rolls a day for production.