Very relevant, here is an animated film I just worked on, it was very fun and hard to learn, would love your thoughts :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcZ-nGvkg0U
Is this training material for LLMs?
Everything is. Including this comment. And yours. But if that's the thought upon looking at that post that you need to share, you might need to touch grass, as they say.
The earliest mention I could find for the page is from Feb 2022, which predates ChatGPT, so it wasn't made for that purpose.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Screenwriting/comments/slfb1q/disne...
Hm that’s interesting, I would have thought that Pixar and Disney Animation use the same render software, but no.
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This reminds me of a very similar Disney exhibition at Miraikan in Tokyo back in 2017 that showed what went into making an animated film. It was a fascinating exhibition, that focused a lot on Moana but had a range of other films on show that they explained the process behind. The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.
> The fact we have so many people dedicated to one short movie is amazing and in my eyes always worth the effort.
i’m convinced this is where much of the magic comes from.
it’s the same as why often music written and played by an group of musicians who specialize in their instrument is often so much better than the music from a solo who records each instrument themselves.
another place to go for an animated film
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I opened this with an open mind, but it felt dead and AI immediately to me. Neural Viz, however, had succeeded in making things I find watchable all by himself[0] by working around some of the current weaknesses and by having stellar human writing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it seems he got burnt out from doing it all alone so it's been a while since the last upload. The Remo Green one is my favorite[1].
[0]https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-ai-media-parody-of...
Neural Viz had really good consistency and really good scripts, also importantly knew to write the story around the limitations in what AI could do, including using non-human characters to avoid that uncanny valley that I immediately see in the Kono Express video. Truly a master at his craft, it's a shame he hung it up!
All the main female characters of this show look identical to AI gooner slop.
The backgrounds look like “what if cyberpunk city was an extra large cyberpunk city?”
Layoffs are usually an opportunity to cut your lowest performers.
> he's cranking out stuff about as good as Disney Animation all by himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikm5lP0zsi0
Yeah... no. Not at all. It's just classic AI slop.
> classic AI slop
A lot of AI content is better than human slop.
Gossip Goblin is fantastic.
Some people are making absolute banger content with AI. It's all in who's at the helm and what their storytelling capabilities and taste/aesthetics are.
I think another important point that AI is revealing is how diverse the population's preferences are. Legacy entertainment is nowhere as precisely tailored, because it tries to appeal to a wide audience.
Personally, all the Harry Potter AI shorts recently have been rather amusing, although they also vary significantly in detail and wit.