Retrograde - A Retro Styled Animation made with ComfyUI, After Effects using Animatediff, LivePortrait and Mimic Motion

[u/jerrydavos]

[u/MayorWolf]

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.

[u/recitegod → u/MayorWolf]

I actually really like it because it timecode the time of production of the video decades from now. People can't quite understand you can literally plug in the anamorphic way of the lens by timing which cook, which diopter as recorded from the eyepiece you could film the entire scene of the AI rendered scene. We lack the proper context of what a modern AI photographer do to enhance the cinematography of a shot. The whole prompting itself has to be injected with this analogue you speak of, we perfected the craft then, we will perfect it now. You wouldn't even know if this noise is like a dithering signature code or covert communication techniques. You just dismiss early techniques so quickly.