I've done a few styles using official YouTube uploads of (old) anime/cartoons for training data (as well as a bunch of other things other than styles with such data). I have found it both fun enough, and getting engagement enough to consider doing some more such style (especially now that I have a better idea of the sweet spot for needed data, ~200, am more comfortable with letting auto-label handle quantity while I do corrections and adjustments, and am working on a more irregular upload schedule so thus can put more time into random things). I figured I’d ask the community here what official YouTube uploads there are for animation and what people are interested in. It’s also a way to learn about what stuff is actually there because this is really underdocumented. Please post channel and show names (not links) down in the comments and I’ll see what I’m willing to do. I place myself under no obligation to do anything suggested. If you really want one done, I encourage you to try it yourself (you can get clean screenshots by double right clicking on a YT video and clicking the option, and you can use ImageMagick or something else to crop black bars or edge distortion or unstretch forced 16:9) and I’ll try to answer any questions on the process (this is hardly the hardest task in training, though it is one of the more time consuming).
As a practical matter, the following are needed for me to be able to make a style
The video must be accessible to US IPs for free (Well as free as anything on an ad supported platform. You know what I mean.). The upload doesn’t necessarily need to be in English/have English subs however (I’m less likely to do it if it was never released in English or Japanese, but you can still post about it it, especially if the show was released in one of those two but just not represented by an official upload).
The show needs to have a significant number (12+?) of visually distinct adults present (even distinct extras is fine if there’s enough and frequent enough and they aren’t faceless/QUALITY). Making a good style takes too much work to hobble the engagement with the result by having to mark it as producing minors. (In a case like Digimon where the adults are only in a relatively small number of episodes, please mention which.)
Not just a first episode (a movie might work)
Not already have a (good) Illustrious model.
Not be hardsubbed: I'm not a barbarian.
The following is greatly preferred
Non-potato quality (at least 480p and no major jpeg/tape artifacts). QUALITY I can work around (and for some shows, that’s the point), potato transfers I can’t.
No watermark (cropping these off while remaining centered is extra work and limiting in what data can be used)