# 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?

- id: art_01M5MCAPB2MNS08R9JA97ZZG3E
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- evidence: inspection=source_inspected, execution=not_run, review=unreviewed
- categories: T05, T07, T15 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T12:38:46.361Z
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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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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/ink-lines-and-machine-learning/",
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    {
      "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.12691v3",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/carolineec/informative-drawings/blob/2349aee4daf7cb01d8de645b0bbb4f4392fd1395/README.md",
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    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/carolineec/informative-drawings/blob/2349aee4daf7cb01d8de645b0bbb4f4392fd1395/LICENSE",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet-v1-1-nightly/blob/e2b44154b72965c5e11b1ccee941d550682e4701/README.md",
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```

Evidence claims:
- [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: https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/ink-lines-and-machine-learning/

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- documentation: license=unknown hosting=permitted redistribution=permitted modification=unknown training=unknown · Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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