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I assume the end goal of this is rendering photo-realistic movies of humans without filming actors. Neural voice generation is also quite good at this point. Qu

I assume the end goal of this is rendering photo-realistic movies of humans without filming actors. Neural voice generation is also quite good at this point. Quite interesting where this could lead to.

path411 5y ago
I think this tech is still only for faces mostly. Aren't any cgi'd actor have someone else playing the role and their face edited?
devoutsalsa 5y ago
For actors that seem to play the same character in every movie, it’d be kind of funny to create a stock footage of actors, and just use that to make movies. Tom Cruise running! The Rock punching someone through a wall! And so on.
bemmu 5y ago
In 2030 I'll type in "movie about XYZ", GPT-7 comes up with the script, it crunches in the Disney+ cloud for a few hours, and later I sign on to watch the full generated movie?
- ricardobayes 5y ago
  probably not going to be mainstream for feature length movies, but could be a good tool for prototyping movie ideas and let target groups watch the demo reel very, very early on in the concept phase.
  - suriyaG 5y ago
    Why use a target group? when you can run a regression model on what hits the nerve for people, using data that's being collected now. :) Then it'll be ML models creating movies for other models to be validated and et voila, you get a super hit movie.
    - ricardobayes 5y ago
      I like the way you think ;) But 'taste' will be really difficult to model for a long-long time.
    - scoopertrooper 5y ago
      Why even bother releasing it at that point? The humans won't appreciate the majesty of what was produced. I say send them off to camps.
Lio 5y ago
It's probably a good hedge for Disney against the power/presence of individual stars affecting their long running franchises. It's a double whammy in that they can make more product simultaniously and they get full lifetime control over presentation. It's easy to contract someone to keep their mouth shut and behave in a certain way for a few years but over 50-60 years it's much harder. i.e. The presence of someone with strong political opinions like Harison Ford in Star Wars affecting long term sales in certain markets. If you're an executive more interested in money than politics it must be very tempting. Even having CGI replacement as a threat to keep actors in line is probably useful. God that's despressing. :(

path411 5y ago

I think this tech is still only for faces mostly. Aren't any cgi'd actor have someone else playing the role and their face edited?

devoutsalsa 5y ago

For actors that seem to play the same character in every movie, it’d be kind of funny to create a stock footage of actors, and just use that to make movies. Tom Cruise running! The Rock punching someone through a wall! And so on.

bemmu 5y ago

In 2030 I'll type in "movie about XYZ", GPT-7 comes up with the script, it crunches in the Disney+ cloud for a few hours, and later I sign on to watch the full generated movie?

ricardobayes 5y ago
probably not going to be mainstream for feature length movies, but could be a good tool for prototyping movie ideas and let target groups watch the demo reel very, very early on in the concept phase.
- suriyaG 5y ago
  Why use a target group? when you can run a regression model on what hits the nerve for people, using data that's being collected now. :) Then it'll be ML models creating movies for other models to be validated and et voila, you get a super hit movie.
  - ricardobayes 5y ago
    I like the way you think ;) But 'taste' will be really difficult to model for a long-long time.
  - scoopertrooper 5y ago
    Why even bother releasing it at that point? The humans won't appreciate the majesty of what was produced. I say send them off to camps.

Lio 5y ago

It's probably a good hedge for Disney against the power/presence of individual stars affecting their long running franchises. It's a double whammy in that they can make more product simultaniously and they get full lifetime control over presentation. It's easy to contract someone to keep their mouth shut and behave in a certain way for a few years but over 50-60 years it's much harder. i.e. The presence of someone with strong political opinions like Harison Ford in Star Wars affecting long term sales in certain markets. If you're an executive more interested in money than politics it must be very tempting. Even having CGI replacement as a threat to keep actors in line is probably useful. God that's despressing. :(