In the future, “prestige television” will just be TV that uses real people in the production cycle.
Maybe we even get a channel that’s “100% Human” and you need to spend $40/mo to subscribe
The subscription should be called Serenity Now
He’s not wrong, but I don’t think the James Cameron of the last decade has any room to criticize others for not creating sufficiently “sacred” art.
Even James Cameron has room to criticize ai advocates
The Avata of Pandora? Oh sorry that was Frank Herbert.
Of course he is scared, he’s been coasting on rehashing Pocahontas but with blue aliens for a decade. He might actually have to put effort into it if anybody can make a movie.
The age of artisanal media will be interesting.
Man, remember when CGI replaced animation, after animation replaced actors? It’s a real shame we don’t have actors anymore, since the moment they weren’t strictly necessary. It would’ve been so much cooler if technology simply allowed new things to exist when they’d otherwise be implausible or unfundable.
You’re not wrong, and I think I understand your point, but what is the current balance of CGI animated movies released per year versus hand drawn and painted? Now what does film landscape look like if we applied those same release ratios to live action films?
Does that seem likely? Pointing a camera at actors is not inherently difficult or expensive. Even when AI is involved, it’s best at turning whatever you have into whatever you describe - so you film real people in real costumes, and let CGI-for-dummies make up elaborate sets. Or you hire three great actors to play a dozen characters.
Even for CGI films, ‘have’ into ‘describe’ just means you can half-ass the animation and rendering. Productions can focus on writing, character design, and cinematography, then feed in some footage of actors in VR Chat, to get out a scene approaching Pixar quality. Is Pixar itself going to use that process? Probably not. But it’s a million miles from typing ‘funny scene high quality’ and crossing your fingers.
Isnt this the guy who used AI on the 4K releases of true lies and terminator? True lies looks awful, ai hair and pores
Agree.
If its truthful (which will be impossible to tell) i will actively support any project that explicitly states no ai used in its making.
I do enjoy human creation, but “sacred” is a strong word for it.
You don’t need AI to create soulless depictions of humanity, James Cameron already does that. I think he is just protecting his bread and butter from automation.
Snark aside, I grew up loving his movies. As a film student, I loved taking them apart in critique for his mastery of technical filmmaking. As a professor, I used the DVD extras from his films to show just how forward-thinking his knowledge was of VFX. But this Avatar garbage is just the result of a kid who finally leveled up enough to produce the comic book he wrote when he was 8. It’s awful.
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