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@ImKingGinger Fuck. Fuck this disgusting take.

Just stop using unions all together.

@ImKingGinger Pulp Novels, B-Movies and Youtube were never about quality. Video games have always been as celebrated as denigraded. the only slop around here is you posting empty meaningless engagement slop all day long insed of actually acting like a filmmaker as you "allege"

@ImKingGinger This simply is untrue. Comic books began in the visual history of newspapers and have always been a much respected, even the ones known as the Tijuana bibles. Which you'd know if you researched.

Every piece of entertainment you love started as what others called slop. Comic books were considered trash for kids. Pulp fiction was printed on the cheapest paper money could buy. B-movies were unwatchable garbage that gave us Scorsese and James Cameron thanks to Roger Corman. YouTube was cat videos. Wrestling was fake fighting for rednecks. Video games were a waste of time rotting your brain. Every single one of those became billion dollar culture. AI slop is just artists starting something new and testing the market. I'm going live soon to talk about this. Join the chat.

@PurzBeats @purz actually, what i meant to say "workfloooooowww whwererrree"

@PurzBeats @purz this was the perfect moment to remind me about datamoshing - my first vibed' custom node was a "datamosh model" node, and I need to dust it off now that my inferred videos are not looking datamoshed natually. cheers pal!

Claude got busy simulating the SNES PPU at the hardware level then corrupting it just to give lil' old me some nostalgic SNES glitches for my CRT display.

@ImKingGinger you probably need to see the arseholes all over this platform saying "VFX IS COOKED". they have open disdain for tradional work.

I have noticed that AI filmmakers have a deep respect for traditional filmmaking. I haven't met a single AI filmmaker who has a disdain for the challenge and craft of traditional work. The same cannot be said for traditional filmmakers. But I believe this is only temporary.

@tvaziri @anishmoonka Folks pretending CGI is live action / practical should be banished to Mars in a current generation billionaires rocketshop. They get the choice to the rocket is practical or CGI.

@anishmoonka You wrote: “Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI.” That is not accurate. “Half of Rocky’s performance is CG animation.” Director Phil Lord.

You're watching a $248 million film and not a single green or blue screen was used. The alien is a handmade puppet. The cockpit physically rotates to simulate gravity. I looked at the production tech behind this 95% score, and the engineering is wild. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, directing their first live-action movie in 12 years, built the entire Hail Mary spacecraft as a real set at Shepperton Studios in England. Not a miniature. Not a digital model. A full-size ship interior you can walk through. Production designer Charlie Wood studied the International Space Station, Russia's Mir station, and the Boeing 747 cockpit to get the look right. He deliberately made the panels mismatched, because real spacecraft are assembled from parts made by different companies. Nothing matches perfectly. That's what makes it feel real. The cockpit is only about 8 feet wide. It sits on a mechanical platform that can tilt, spin, and shake, so when the ship changes direction or enters different gravity conditions, the whole set moves. Chairs end up on walls. Ladders flip direction. Gosling was suspended inside a spinning ring so he could float and move through the ship for real, reacting to actual hardware around him. No guessing where a wall might be added later. Then there's Rocky. He's the alien co-lead, and he's not CGI. Neal Scanlan, the creature designer who built the Porgs for Star Wars, spent a full year on this character. Over 300 designs before they landed on the final look. Rocky is a thin, hollow shell, 3D-printed from a digital sculpture, then hand-painted in see-through layers so light passes through him like skin. His arms pop off and swap out depending on the scene: one set has a closed fist for walking, another has tiny motorized fingers strong enough to pick up objects. Five puppeteers (nicknamed the "Rockyteers") operated him in every scene. James Ortiz, an award-winning puppet designer from New York theater, voiced Rocky and controlled him on set. When Scanlan met him, he told Ortiz, "You're Frank Oz, and I'm making Yoda for you." Every reaction Gosling gives to the alien is to something physically in front of him. Greig Fraser, who won the Oscar for shooting Dune, filmed the space scenes in the larger IMAX format (that taller image you see in IMAX theaters) and the Earth flashbacks in regular widescreen. Then the team did something unusual: they took the digital footage and printed it onto real film strips, twice, using two different types of film stock. Then they scanned those strips back into digital. It sounds redundant, but it adds a texture and warmth that you can only get from physical film. Fraser used the same technique on Dune and The Batman. Drew Goddard spent six years writing this screenplay. His last adaptation of Andy Weir's novel, The Martian, earned him an Oscar nomination. He described the challenge this way: a screenplay gets about 5% of a novel's word count. The lead is alone for most of the runtime. When he finally gets a co-star, that co-star doesn't speak English, communicates through sounds closer to whale song, and has no face. Goddard called it a screenwriter's nightmare, then said that difficulty was the whole point. He and the directors fought studio pushback to keep Weir's original ending intact. 95% from 212 critics. 98% from over 2,500 audience ratings. And the lead isn't a superhero, a cop, or a soldier. He's just an ordinary middle school science teacher.

@popupipapo @DiscussingFilm 100% this. in fairness not just directors. There's now a team of auteurs to explode a VFX budget because planning has gone out the window. Could there be a correlation between @JamesGunn 's "no greenlight until finished script" and the fact noone bemoaned Superman's VFX?

@DiscussingFilm Note that modern CG problems come from a combination of fucked up deadlines...and directors customizing fully photoreal lighting and effects into cartoons to "elevate the subject" until release. It's not CGI that got worse, it's directors. Even no-CGI shots are worse than ever.

Gore Verbinski reacts to CGI getting worse in modern blockbusters. “I was watching something... it was CG ships in the ocean and I was like, ‘Really? That is literally a video game. That’s not a movie. Those effects are not final, how are they ending up in the final movie?’”

@JoeWilliams010 @motionbynick Surely not on your own profile? AI Bro's need deeply to learn the definition of 'consistient'. lesson 2 can be on 'art'. I'm not remotely anti generative art (currently) but shitting on artists when your own 'content' is inferior EVEN WITH AI,.. not smart, not cool.

@motionbynick 20k for this crap?! I’ve seen much better AI stuff made for MUCH less.

AI artists are COOKED. This entire video was made in just a few weeks by a small team of skilled artists for just $20k:

@doctorwasif shite like this gives Generative AI Art a bad name. more feckless snakeoil marketeers hocking slop for engagement. AI is not the scourge you shameless parasites are.

@doctorwasif 1). what is 'a Matrix-style Scene'? 2). where are you getting your $10M cost from? show your workings. 3). why does your 2mins one prompt facimile the actual fight from the matrix? by your logic thats 10M+ the costs of your prompt + legal costs when your'e sued.

@greenmoon2 @Sheldon056 "actually moves people" - surely you're not talking about the gravity defying spiderman clip here? I hope you're right but it shure as slop won't be with eyes closed generation of meme content.

@Sheldon056 Exactly. Studios spend millions on committee-approved mediocrity while one creator with Seedance makes something that actually moves people. The middlemen are becoming irrelevant. The future belongs to those who can dream and build without permission.

Generated with Seedance 2.0 from a single prompt. Hollywood isn’t the future of filmmaking. Creators are.

@vikare06 I think the most striking part it demonstrates is that its understood the seminal art direction (that someone made) not the seminal animation (that somone made). "You come at the king, you better not miss." These marketers should choose lower hanging fruit.

I wonder how this would have been made if the original series was never created. Same question applies to anything actually.

@Theybannedme4 @KingSpyke_ My friend you have dedicated more grey matter to this slosh than the person who generated it. the user who inferred this did not even realise hands going through shields, shield being held backwards, the green man jumping from one side of the street to the other.

@KingSpyke_ This is an interesting one. MCU cap is a lot stronger than Comic cap. I don’t think Spider-Man is that much stronger than movie cap .

Okay this is dope Toby Spider-Man vs Captain America Steve 👀

@KingSpyke_ the midair hovering,the physics defying slide on top of a car, the disappering green man in the background. The punching of an ubreakably strong shield without injury. The horrible edit as the two (eventually) decide gravity means they should be on the ground. not dope, DOPEY

@NACHOS2D_ I readily believe it was made by AI. no human brainwork whatsoever went into an original idea, framing the characters, adhering to the 180 degree rule, or consistient backgrounds In fact while on still frame this might pass, the animation on arkane is sublime, this anim is shit

This was made 100% by artificial intelligence. I know it’s hard to believe, but it was created with Seedance 2.0 — a Chinese AI, with no censorship, already released in China and coming globally in the future. Everything is extremely smooth, with almost no errors. We’re starting the year with a major shift in the internet as we know it. This is the future.

@rpnickson Elastic Reality mate: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avid_Elas…

Man how the hell did they pull this off in 1991

@LinusEkenstam oh wow, you can get a different sportscar and spaceship in every scene!!! this might be a problem if your story isn't a medieval battle set on an alienspacehip planet with car battles jumping around world to world like a trailer. but i'm sure you're thought of this one Linus.

People still arguing if Hollywood being cooked? LMFAO

@PJaccetturo @JJTorrijos yes, and this in between is what people are calling slop. soulless, devoid of artistc merit or intent and vapid. you need to put something in to get something out, and if meme level is your highest aspiration don't be surprised when its regarded as vapid & soulless

@JJTorrijos Sure but the reality is most AI films will exist in the gray area in between. I’d even wager that Sora videos, which are completely automated are art because it’s just mimicking the training data, which is art. It’s what we do as humans

This is such a low-IQ take. When your child draws a picture of your family, it makes you feel something. Not because of the crayon's quality, but because we resonate with the message. The tools used do not matter. They never have. Art has always been subjective, and the medium has never stopped humans from ascribing meaning. From cave paintings to fertility sculptures to film cameras, and now generative cameras. I just spent a week in Hollywood watching my friend generate new sequences based on real footage because they didn't have the budget to film 100,000 soldiers on location. He then recorded performances of the actors using the same motion capture tools that they used on Avatar, but now AI lets him map the performance on the characters for a 1/10th of the time and cost. I couldn't actually tell that it was AI; it looked incredible. Because it was driven by a real filmmaker, with real actors. The paintbrush does not matter. The reason AI films don't make you feel emotion right now is due to technical shortcomings and talent scarcity. That will change very soon as mass adoption occurs.

@EHuanglu really helpful if you dont need a consistent performance. its over for grifters like you. where's next and hows the NFT portfolio going?

we are so cooked AI now can replace actor from any film.. talking, acting, emotion and any subtle details can be copied perfectly.. its over for Hollywood here's how to do in 5 mins: