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Was anyone else confused by that Donald Glover segment. It felt like we were going to get a short film, and we got 3-5 clips?

by htrp 2y ago

Keyframe 2y ago
It felt AI-generated.
- htrp 2y ago
  I wish it were AI Donald Glover talking and the "Apple twist" at the end was that the entire 3 minute segment was a prompt for "Donald Glover talking about how Awesome Gemini Models are in a California vineyard"
curiousgal 2y ago
Exactly! "Hey guys big artist says this is fine so we're good"
jsheard 2y ago
And those clips mostly look like generic stock footage, not something specific that a director might want to pre-vis. This is what movie pre-vis is actually like, it doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMeHPGV5VE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMeHPGV5VE
thisoneworks 2y ago
Yeah that wasn't obvious what they were trying to show. Demis said feature films will be released in a while
ZiiS 2y ago
Also it is either very good at generating living people or they need to put more though into saying "Note: All videos on this page were generated by Veo and have not been modified"
- jsheard 2y ago
  That "footage has not been modified" statement is probably to get ahead of any speculation that it was "cleaned up" in post, after it turned out that the Sora demo of the balloon headed man had fairly extensive manual VFX applied afterwards to fix continuity errors and other artifacts.
  - iamdelirium 2y ago
    Wait, where did you hear this? I would assume something like this would have made somewhat of a splash.
    - jsheard 2y ago
      The studio was pretty up front about it, they released a making-of video one day after debuting the short which made it clear they used VFX to fix Soras errors in post, but OpenAI neglected to mention that in their own copy so it flew under the radar for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88 https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ > While all the imagery was generated in SORA, the balloon still required a lot of post-work. In addition to isolating the balloon so it could be re-coloured, it would sometimes have a face on Sonny, as if his face was drawn on with a marker, and this would be removed in AfterEffects. similar other artifacts were often removed.

Was anyone else confused by that Donald Glover segment. It felt like we were going to get a short film, and we got 3-5 clips?

by htrp 2y ago

Was anyone else confused by that Donald Glover segment. It felt like we were going to get a short film, and we got 3-5 clips?

Keyframe 2y ago

It felt AI-generated.

htrp 2y ago
I wish it were AI Donald Glover talking and the "Apple twist" at the end was that the entire 3 minute segment was a prompt for "Donald Glover talking about how Awesome Gemini Models are in a California vineyard"

curiousgal 2y ago

Exactly! "Hey guys big artist says this is fine so we're good"

jsheard 2y ago

And those clips mostly look like generic stock footage, not something specific that a director might want to pre-vis. This is what movie pre-vis is actually like, it doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be precise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMeHPGV5VE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMeHPGV5VE

thisoneworks 2y ago

Yeah that wasn't obvious what they were trying to show. Demis said feature films will be released in a while

ZiiS 2y ago

Also it is either very good at generating living people or they need to put more though into saying "Note: All videos on this page were generated by Veo and have not been modified"

jsheard 2y ago
That "footage has not been modified" statement is probably to get ahead of any speculation that it was "cleaned up" in post, after it turned out that the Sora demo of the balloon headed man had fairly extensive manual VFX applied afterwards to fix continuity errors and other artifacts.
- iamdelirium 2y ago
  Wait, where did you hear this? I would assume something like this would have made somewhat of a splash.
  - jsheard 2y ago
    The studio was pretty up front about it, they released a making-of video one day after debuting the short which made it clear they used VFX to fix Soras errors in post, but OpenAI neglected to mention that in their own copy so it flew under the radar for a while. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88 https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/ > While all the imagery was generated in SORA, the balloon still required a lot of post-work. In addition to isolating the balloon so it could be re-coloured, it would sometimes have a face on Sonny, as if his face was drawn on with a marker, and this would be removed in AfterEffects. similar other artifacts were often removed.