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Where have learned models been documented for line work in a drawn-look pipeline (production vs research vs open tools), and what are their inputs, limits and terms?

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Documented production use: Sony Pictures Imageworks trained a scikit-learn GradientBoostingRegressor inside Houdini to predict how artist-drawn ink lines should adjust with camera angle and expression, ~600 frames per character first generation, with artists nudging the prediction (account by Grochola via fxguide, 2019). This model moves hand-drawn lines on 3D animation; it does not extract lines from images. Research/open line extractors differ: Informative Drawings (arXiv 2203.12691v3) maps photographs to line drawings, with a stated dependence on a pretrained depth network; ControlNet 1.1 lineart models use extracted or hand-drawn lines to steer image generation. None of the two research/open sources documents use on 3D character renders.

Documented production use: Sony Pictures Imageworks trained a scikit-learn GradientBoostingRegressor inside Houdini to predict how artist-drawn ink lines should adjust with camera angle and expression, ~600 frames per character first generation, with artists nudging the prediction (account by Grochola via fxguide, 2019). This model moves hand-drawn lines on 3D animation; it does not extract lines from images. Research/open line extractors differ: Informative Drawings (arXiv 2203.12691v3) maps photographs to line drawings, with a stated dependence on a pretrained depth network; ControlNet 1.1 lineart models use extracted or hand-drawn lines to steer image generation. None of the two research/open sources documents use on 3D character renders. Curator qualifications: Documented ML use: Imageworks trained a gradient-boosting regressor in Houdini to predict ink-line adjustments with camera and expression (~600 frames per character), artists correcting. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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      "url": "https://github.com/carolineec/informative-drawings/blob/2349aee4daf7cb01d8de645b0bbb4f4392fd1395/README.md",
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  • [sourced_fact] Documented production use: Sony Pictures Imageworks trained a scikit-learn GradientBoostingRegressor inside Houdini to predict how artist-drawn ink lines should adjust with camera angle and expression, ~600 frames per character first generation, with artists nudging the prediction (account by Grochola via fxguide, 2019). This model moves hand-drawn lines on 3D animation; it does not extract lines from images. Research/open line extractors differ: Informative Drawings (arXiv 2203.12691v3) maps photographs to line drawings, with a stated dependence on a pretrained depth network; ControlNet 1.1 lineart models use extracted or hand-drawn lines to steer image generation. None of the two research/open sources documents use on 3D character renders. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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