Our company has started providing animation automatic coloring AI to Geek Pictures Co., Ltd., which plans and produces video, graphics, animation (hereinafter referred to as anime), CGI content, etc. Cinnamon AI and Geek Pictures will promote digital transformation (hereinafter referred to as DX) in the anime industry through the use of various AI technologies, including this anime automatic coloring AI.

■Background of this project
Anime production requires the drawing of thousands of cels even for a 30-minute animation, and the manual labor of a person with a certain level of skill is required to color the cels. Up until now, most anime production companies have either hired their own skilled craftsmen or outsourced to overseas outsourcing companies that specialize in coloring cels. The anime industry is an important industry that strengthens Japan's soft power and plays a part in Japan's Cool Japan Strategy, but the lack of specialized human resources at anime production sites is a major issue.

Cinnamon AI supports the promotion of DX that brings about change at the industrial level, with the mission of "Together with AI, a world full of creativity." This time, Cinnamon AI and Geek Pictures will jointly promote this project to transform the anime industry. By utilizing the animation automatic coloring AI provided by Cinnamon AI, we will achieve more accurate and speedy coloring than previous results. Specifically, by increasing the overall processing capacity through automatic AI processing, we will increase high-value-added work for anime producers and work on DX in the anime industry.

■Summary of the initiative
Anime automatic coloring AI aims to improve the productivity of anime creators by introducing AI to coloring work, which has a high workload. As for the system configuration, AI technology is utilized in each flow from cell image preprocessing to coloring. Specifically, the coloring accuracy in pixel value units is 96%, which enables coloring to an extremely high level, reducing the time required to color cel images to 1/10, and reducing costs by more than 50%. Become. In the future, we are considering building a system with an eye toward a collaborative interface with paint tools if necessary.

Cinnamon AI and Geek Pictures will jointly promote this anime automatic coloring AI project. In the future, we also plan to provide services to general companies through Geek Pictures.

*The illustration is an image and is not actually colored by AI.

[Geek Pictures Co., Ltd. company profile]

Company name: Geek Pictures Co., Ltd.
URL:https://geekpictures.co.jp/
Address: 2-27-5 Jingumae, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Established: February 2007
Representative: Representative Director Tamotsu Osano

■Business details:
Planning and production of multimedia video content such as TV commercials, movies, and music videos.
Planning and production of events and sales promotions
Planning and production of graphics, animation, CGI content, etc.
Development of IP such as characters, management of creators, and management of copyrights
Digital media planning and management

[Cinnamon Co., Ltd. company profile]

Company name: Cinnamon Co., Ltd.
URL:http://www.cinnamon.is
Location: 6F Spirit Building, 3-19-13 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Established: October 2016
Representative: Mirai Hirano, Representative Director, President and CEO

■Business details:
Artificial intelligence product business, artificial intelligence consulting business
Cinnamon AI's mission is to "create a world full of creativity with AI," and we are working on developing advanced business AI solutions, and we have a track record of providing them to many major domestic companies. In addition, we have established artificial intelligence laboratories in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and Taiwan, and have succeeded in recruiting a large number of AI engineers. Recently, in addition to the AI-OCR "Flax Scanner," we have begun commercializing the specialized speech recognition technology "Rossa Voice," and have begun selling it mainly to major companies. In addition, Cinnamon AI has many advanced AI algorithms based on three unique research areas: “Digitize,” “Structure,” and “Understand.” We are continuously developing business AI solutions that utilize unstructured data.