Matthew Leigh🎥

This short film was created using Seedance 2.0 — and honestly, it doesn’t look like AI anymore. The lighting, the camera movement, the action, the emotion… it feels like a Hollywood production. We’re entering a new era where anyone with imagination can become a director. No big studio. No million-dollar budget. Just vision

3d riggers and mecha modelers are officially COOKED. seedance 2.0 just generated complex metallic joints and dynamic lighting flawlessly. hollywood vfx houses cannot justify their budgets when indie creators do this for FREE.

If "Hollywood is cooked" then so is everyone peddling/making these kinds of AI videos. The natural sales funnel for something like this doesn't sustain itself with just "creators", especially when they are self cannibalizing their own skills. It's going to cut right to the end user. A monthly subscriber will type a prompt on their Disney Plus app "Action comedy, where Tom Cruise plays Iron Man and Sydney Sweeney is Black Widow"-- and they will get a full garbage movie on-demand that they can click play and watch after a five minute wait. And it's even more bleak than that. Because no one else will watch it. There will be no cultural conversation about it, no event, no interest, because everyone else who is lacking in taste will be making their own on demand nonsense. This is why it's very foolish for self-professed filmmakers to align themselves w this current marketing push from AI companies. They'll go down with the ship they are hitching a ride to, all while burning bridges with fellow creatives whose careers they ruined