I think you misjudge how much artistry goes into placing those photographed assets. You are probably way off on your estimates in how this will change the work

I think you misjudge how much artistry goes into placing those photographed assets. You are probably way off on your estimates in how this will change the workforce. Small teams of artists can now produce television VFX that rival what took hundreds of film artists to do decades ago, but if you pay attention to movie credits, the number of artists working on big films seems to be increasing. Also, it seems to me that AI and procedural generated assets are more likely to be the future than real world scans.