An ai image generator does not, cannot, understand storytelling. What will end up happening is someone being hired to "fix" the output, on a lower wage than if they had drawn the storyboard to start with.
Lionsgate has signed a deal with AI company Runway, and hopes that AI can eliminate storyboard artists and VFX crews. The studio says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”
The studi says that replacing human artists with AI will save “millions and millions of dollars.”
Great, more garbage... /s
Seriously, they're going to generate 100 versions of each shot and they'll have to work overtime to maintain consistency across the entire film.
How about this: So you want me to do the work of 20 people? So do I get the pay of 20 people?.
hopefully A.I. becomes a trial by fire of studios, where only those who understand the complexity and value of human creativity will escape without having burned millions of dollars. other than that, that's publicly traded companies for you: gotta follow the hype, no matter how dumb.
The good news is that you can't fix the output! AI systems' output is non-decomposible, and that is unlikely to change. It gives you a video file, not a Blender or Maya project you can go in and fix timings, skeletons, materials, etc. The bad news is that no one at the C-suite level knows or cares.
Sure wish IASTE negotiated better protections for this exact scenario that everyone knew would happen. Feels like all the visual artists were thrown under the bus.
It's baffling. Writing scripts and making storyboards are the part of animation that make or break EVERYTHING about what the story is and how it's told I've never been like "Ah, I sure hope a machine could make all of the important creative storytelling decisions for me"
It's the worst thing they've done since all the movies they've released this year.
well itll save the rest of us millions of dollars we would have otherwise spent seeing a movie