Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
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#2Never did I think I would ever see anything close to related to A$AP on HN. I love this place.
Re: Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
#3Direct link to the music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1-46Nu3HxQ
Re: Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
#4Be sure to watch the video itself* - it’s really a great piece of work. The energy is frenetic and it’s got this beautiful balance of surrealism from the effects and groundedness from the human performances.
* (Mute it if you don’t like the music, just like the rest of us will if you complain about the music)
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#5so basically despite the higher resource requirements like 10TB of data for 30 minutes of footage, the compositing is so much faster and more flexible and those resources can be deleted or moved to long term storage in the cloud very quickly and the project can move on
fascinating
I wouldn't have normally read this and watched the video, but my Claude sessions were already executing a plan
the tl;dr is that all the actors were scanned in a 3D point cloud system and then "NeRF"'d which means to extrapolate any missing data about their transposed 3D model
this was then more easily placed into the video than trying to compose and place 2D actors layer by layer
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#6To be honest it looks like it was rendered in an old version of Unreal Engine. That may be an intentional choice - I wonder how realistic guassian splatting can look? Can you redo lights, shadows, remove or move parts of the scene, while preserving the original fidelity and realism?
The way TV/movie production is going (record 100s of hours of footage from multiple angles and edit it all in post) I wonder if this is the end state. Gaussian splatting for the humans and green screens for the rest?
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#7Really amazing video. Unfortunately this article is like 60% over my head. Regardless, I actually love reading jargon-filled statements like this that are totally normal to the initiated but are completely inscrutable to outsiders.
"That data was then brought into Houdini, where the post production team used CG Nomads GSOPs for manipulation and sequencing, and OTOY’s OctaneRender for final rendering. Thanks to this combination, the production team was also able to relight the splats."Re: Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video
#8Super cool to read but can someone eli5 what Gaussian splatting is (and/or radiance fields?) specifically to how the article talks about it finally being "mature enough"? What's changed that this is now possible?
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#9Pretty sure most of this could be filmed with a camera drone and preprogrammed flight path...
Did the Gaussian splatting actually make it any cheaper? Especially considering that it needed 50+ fixed camera angles to splat properly, and extensive post-processing work both computationally and human labour, a camera drone just seems easier.
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#10Pretty sure most of this could be filmed with a camera drone and preprogrammed flight path... Did the Gaussian splatting actually make it any cheaper? Especially considering that it needed 50+ fixed camera angles to splat properly, and extensive post-processing work both computationally and human labour, a camera drone just seems easier.
It's fucking cool. That's why.
This tech is moving along at breakneck pace and now we're all talking about it. A drone video wouldn't have done that.