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VFX artists are definitely feeling the AGI / considering other career paths today.
I genuinely don't understand the consistent rhetoric on this site of: > new AI feature/model comes out > "it's going to replace people in this field! they better start looking for a new job!!!" why is this a good thing?
I don't know if it's just me or other people are feeling it as well. I don't enjoy videos anymore (unless live sports). I don't enjoy reading on my monitor anymore, I have been going back to physical books more often. I am in my early thirties. The point is that sora2 demo videos seemed impressive but I just didn't feel any real excitement. I am not sure who this is really helping.
Will something like Sora 2 actually be used in Hollywood productions? If so, what types of scenes? I imagine it won’t necessarily be used in long scenes with subtle body language, etc involved. But maybe it’ll be used in other types of scenes?
This is super cool and fun and will almost certainly be really bad for society in loads of different ways. From the descriptions of all the guardrails they're needing to put in it seems like they know it too.
But think of all the 0 legitimate use cases for this technology.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Challenging the value of AI generated "art"
Then the purpose of those videos is to challenge the value of non AI generated "art" (half sarcastic, but you could make the argument that most art has no benefit besides to the person that made the art)
I love this AI video technology.
Here are some of the films my friends and I have been making with AI. These are not "prompted", but instead use a lot of hand animation, rotoscoping, and human voice acting in addition to AI assistance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4NFXGMuwpY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x7IZkHiGD8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tii9uF0nAx4
Here are films from other industry folks. One of them writes for a TV show you probably watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAQWRBCt_5E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_SgA6ymPuc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCZC6XmEmK0
I see several incredibly good things happening with this tech:
- More people being able to visually articulate themselves, including "lay" people who typically do not use editing software.
- Creative talent at the bottom rungs being able to reach high with their ambition and pitch grand ideas. With enough effort, they don't even need studio capital anymore. (Think about the tens of thousands of students that go to film school that never get to direct their dream film. That was a lot of us!)
- Smaller studios can start to compete with big studios. A ten person studio in France can now make a well-crafted animation that has more heart and soul than recent by-the-formula Pixar films. It's going to start looking like indie games. Silksong and Undertale and Stardew Valley, but for movies, shows, and shorts. Makoto Shinkai did this once by himself with "Voices of a Distant Star", but it hasn't been oft repeated. Now that is becoming possible.
You can't just "prompt" this stuff. It takes work. (Each of the shorts above took days of effort - something you probably wouldn't know unless you're in the trenches trying to use the tech!)
For people that know how to do a little VFX and editing, and that know the basic rules of storytelling, these tools are remarkable assets that compliment an existing skill set. But every shot, every location, every scene is still work. And you have to weave that all into a compelling story with good hooks and visuals. It's multi-layered and complex. Not unlike code.
And another code analogy: think of these models like Claude Code for the creative. An exoskeleton, but not the core driving engineer or vision that draws it all together. You can't prompt a code base, and similarly, you can't prompt a movie. At least not anytime soon.