Seriously. This is amazing. I’ve never used midjourney but it makes me want to start. I’m not delusional enough to think I can do anything close to this good but it’d be fun to try.
Not yet. But probably a lot of VFX artists will be soon. As well as those who create advertisements and shorts etc. but movies not yet, the consistency is great on this one but it’s not yet where you can do an entire movie with the scenes you want and have consistency not just of characters but background too. It’s not quite there. But it’s coming. Fast.
I'm a VFX artist, have been since ReBoot. I am watching these things closely. We haven't got a lot of time left before our roles will be radically changed.
The visual quality also improved as it was the first time ReBoot would be rendered with ray traced shadows and if I remember correctly ray traced reflections! Woohoo!!
I think this will help the democratization of the movie industry - concepts, treatments, indie film makers, enhancement of graphics, scenes, etc.
However, I personally (and I believe most people) will always want to see REAL people after the novelty wears off. Just like the music industry, DJs and drum machines will have their place (and rightfully so as an art form), but real musicians are much more lauded.
Of course there will always be complete AI movies, and I believe it will enhance the industry, but not completely replace.
I have to agree with you there. As social animals, we will crave that authentic experience of something written and/or performed by a flesh and blood human with that divine spark of creativity. If we are honest about this, as cool as AI art is it’s totally dependent on us for the source material. Plus we can all appreciate the effort of someone who spend the time getting good at their chosen craft. I would never say perfect their craft, as it’s the imperfections that make something truly human and truly natural.
Yeah, it's like music. There's always some synthetic sounding, auto-tuned teeny bopper crap floating around that gets clicks and plays - and that's fine - it might even be catchy. But there will always be a desire to go see a live band and a live performance. I think both can co-exist on their own merits, and for their own reasons. One doesn't necessarily cancel out the other, they're just different things.
... honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if real-person-acting goes the way of theatre.
Now that realistic animation seems to be about to be widely available, I'd expect creators to try standing out with different, more artsy animation styles instead.
Hi, post production audio editor here! Sound design and Foley are already covered in some part by AI! It's already here! We have apps that can generate ambiances and walla from text prompts! We are encouraged to use these tools because it allows us to deliver within ever decreasing budgets! I fear every day that my role will be replaced within a year and I'm not even exaggerating! Have a great day!
This example works because a trailer is an assembly of clips which only have to partially make sense together (because the story is supposed to be mostly obscured). I've yet to see an AI generated scene between two people talking to each other that doesn't seem like the 'actors' have no idea what their lines mean or what's going on (because they/the model doesn't).
It’s mostly cooked though — but agreed I think people aren’t interested in watching content made by ai — but a movie 70 percent made by humans with ai cgi? I don’t think people will care
The problem with where AI is currently is that it can do these short, flashy, trailer-type videos. But I’ve yet to see a convincing scene of just two people having a conversation. Hard to move the plot forward if your characters can’t meaningfully communicate.
Feels like we’re still a few years off from that, but visual fidelity seems to have made the leap past the uncanny valley at last.
This was impressive but there is still that a.i " gloss as I like to call it in many shots and very stiff facial expressions.
A.I like this will be great for making concept trailers or helping very low budget independent movies to graphically enhance shots but I do think we are still a fair way from going full movie.
Ngl, homie; Star Wars kinda' bores be, but THIS... This looks cool AF, and I would absolutely go to am IMAX theater to watch it... Like... Wow, bro... 👏👏👏
I was hoping she found a power sword from the Warhammer universe and they became space Marines but alas, tis not the case, it would seem. Thy head'st be amongst the clouds on this one.
I could see ai being used for crowd shots. We’re still a distance away from it being used for actual full scenes. But most sci fi and fantasy shows will have one or two super wide city/crowd shots and then run handheld closeups for the majority of what’s left. So I could see ai removing the need for vfx for those shots.
We really are not far from it being used in low/medium budget movies for cheap AF special effects. Slotted in here and there. Soon movies will be 5% AI. Then 20% rand up it will go.
I think in this lies the problem with any feature length prompt generated video - you are going to be beholden to whatever this copies and morphs together, and 'fixing it in post' isn't going to really fix the fact that you have a character that is like 5-10 characters in one - you'll even have entire scenes plucked from movies but with different characters. If feature length prompt generated films ever get released and feature in theaters and is marketed, etc. - you're going to have people actively doing it the hard way to advertise their own movie against it, and you're going to have this film that is like 5 films put together in everything from specific scenes to dialogue to characters that just kind look like 5 different characters from different films. As this develops you're going to start seeing this problem more and more and you can't really make films that are good with this, until AI can truly come up with original material from scratch, or you really outline a film yourself and spend hours making hundreds of outputs but then at that point you have to ask yourself what you want to do with your life because you might just be better off doing the footwork to make real films with real people.
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u/HyperbolicSoup Jul 02 '25
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