Can the generated AI animate a decent movie? This problem is being tested early.
Openai and Production Studio Vertigo Movies announce a plan to create a novel 2023 short film as a demonstration of Openai’s Dall-e Image Generator.
The movie, called Critterz, will have a budget of less than $30 million. The producer hopes to shoot the film within about nine months and participate in the Cannes Film Festival in May next year Wall Street Journal.
original Short filmalso known as Critterz, is a drama about the nature documentary genre where strange creatures in the forest suddenly show that they can understand and talk to the narrator. It was written and directed by Chad Nelson, now a creative expert at Openai. Nelson uses dall-e to generate images of environments and characters, using traditional animation techniques to bring the movie to life.
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Vertigo Movie says the full movie will be a family adventure that will “expand the world of the so-called Cretez characters.” The two writers behind the Peruvian film Paddington, James Lamont and Jon Foster, will write the script. Also involved are local foreign countries, a production studio that uses AI as part of its processes. According to WSJ’s report, production has begun and the decision on sound will begin soon.
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The Wall Street Journal reported that the film’s production team plans to feed sketches of hired human artists into AI tools to make it animated. Nelson Say on LinkedIn The film will use the latest research model of Openai’s “Innovative New Production Workflow.”
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Image and video generators have come a long way since the first short version of Critterz. At the time, Dahl-E was impressive, but early image generators had infamous quirks, such as giving people irregular fingers. Today’s tools can render more realistic images and videos. Although they are not perfect, the tools are like Google’s VEO 3 Good enough, AI-created Slops exceed social media feeds, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell which video is real and what is fake.
The bigger question is not whether these tools can generate movies, but whether they should produce movies – and whether viewers want to see it. The use of AI generation is There is controversy in the film industry And in More common creative areas. besides Copyright issueswith OpenAI and other AI companies facing lawsuits from entertainment and media companies, involving the ability to train materials for their tools and certain things that look like copyright roles.
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