The first AI movie studio just unveiled its first film. It looks exactly like you’d expect.
Staircase Studios AI is the world’s first AI movie studio — if that’s even a thing — and has recently uploaded a 5-minute presentation of The Woman With Red Hair, their first tentative movie, on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJD4MaEHUJo The studio also uses the preview to show how this isn't just the "work" of some guy just asking ChatGPT to come up with moving images. Staircase Studios AI talks about employing top animation talent from ex-Pixar, real actors, as well as real writers. That's right, that awful title was not something an AI came up with, though that might be because The Woman With Red Hair is the title of a pre-existing story. Actually employing artists and actors to combine them with AI shenanigans to make films might seem to solve one of the biggest problems with the technology— how it bypasses compensating the makers of the art it scrapes to come up with the hell-in-motion types of imagery it's known for. Still, even if that's truly solved, one serious problem remains, and that’s AI's inability to make something that doesn't look unbearably alien and gross. What the people making AI movies don't get Rotoscoping is a technique seen in some animated films and TV shows. In its most common form, it requires you to shoot a scene in live action, then draw the outlines and paint over the actors to make it all look like an animated movie. Some films openly use rotoscoping as an artistic choice to give a peculiar taste to a tale. Richard Linklater is famous for applying this technique to Waking Life, a highly philosophical film with a dreamy vibe, or A Scanner Darkly, where rotoscoping helps convey the muddled psychic landscape inhabited by most of its characters. It works great there because, to put it simply, rotoscoping makes everything look wrong, or at least different from what real life should be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkjDUERgCQw Whereas Linklater puts it to great use, some others do it to cut corners. Animators caught rotoscoping are seen as cheaters by other animators. They're not really creating movement with their work but rather painting over someone else's motion. At best, The Woman With Red Hair, and every single other "AI movie" that I've ever had to suffer through, looks like it has been rotoscoped by people who didn't understand the technique's strengths. Whether or not the AI tool is using other people's work without paying them or using the studio's work to come up with its images, it's still just painting over someone else's art or reality devoid of any notion of intent. I can't blame AI for that, but I can scoff at the pros wasting time and money on soulless dreck that looks so much worse than any low-budget YouTube short I've ever seen. The post The first AI movie studio just unveiled its first film. It looks exactly like you’d expect. appeared first on Destructoid.
Staircase Studios AI is the world’s first AI movie studio — if that’s even a thing — and has recently uploaded a 5-minute presentation of The Woman With Red Hair, their first tentative movie, on YouTube.
The studio also uses the preview to show how this isn't just the "work" of some guy just asking ChatGPT to come up with moving images. Staircase Studios AI talks about employing top animation talent from ex-Pixar, real actors, as well as real writers. That's right, that awful title was not something an AI came up with, though that might be because The Woman With Red Hair is the title of a pre-existing story.
Actually employing artists and actors to combine them with AI shenanigans to make films might seem to solve one of the biggest problems with the technology— how it bypasses compensating the makers of the art it scrapes to come up with the hell-in-motion types of imagery it's known for. Still, even if that's truly solved, one serious problem remains, and that’s AI's inability to make something that doesn't look unbearably alien and gross.
What the people making AI movies don't get
Rotoscoping is a technique seen in some animated films and TV shows. In its most common form, it requires you to shoot a scene in live action, then draw the outlines and paint over the actors to make it all look like an animated movie.
Some films openly use rotoscoping as an artistic choice to give a peculiar taste to a tale. Richard Linklater is famous for applying this technique to Waking Life, a highly philosophical film with a dreamy vibe, or A Scanner Darkly, where rotoscoping helps convey the muddled psychic landscape inhabited by most of its characters. It works great there because, to put it simply, rotoscoping makes everything look wrong, or at least different from what real life should be.
Whereas Linklater puts it to great use, some others do it to cut corners. Animators caught rotoscoping are seen as cheaters by other animators. They're not really creating movement with their work but rather painting over someone else's motion.
At best, The Woman With Red Hair, and every single other "AI movie" that I've ever had to suffer through, looks like it has been rotoscoped by people who didn't understand the technique's strengths.
Whether or not the AI tool is using other people's work without paying them or using the studio's work to come up with its images, it's still just painting over someone else's art or reality devoid of any notion of intent. I can't blame AI for that, but I can scoff at the pros wasting time and money on soulless dreck that looks so much worse than any low-budget YouTube short I've ever seen.
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