Lightning Artist Toolkit: A Hand-Drawn Volumetric Animation Pipeline
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
We propose a set of methods for freely integrating live-action volumetric video with hand-drawn volumetric animation, which our research develops as the Lightning Artist Toolkit (Latk)---a complete pipeline for hand-drawn volumetric animation, as far as we know the only open-source example of its kind. Our goal with this project is to make creation in 3D as expressive and intuitive as creation in 2D, retaining the human gesture from its origins in hand-drawn animation on paper. This effort is less a computer vision challenge with an objective goal, as with for example point cloud segmentation, than it is an attempt to approximate human vision---a drawing process that records only information from a scene that was subjectively important to an individual artist. In addition to supporting animation efforts in the near term, we believe the public TiltSet dataset assembled for this project will remain usable in new and unexpected ways.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it