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If the tech stack used to make that video makes it "AI slop" then every video game cutscene is AI slop.

• parpfish 11mo ago
  video game cutscenes usually involve real artists designing and animating the characters, not just using preset stock characters
• shadowgovt 11mo ago
  Most videogame cutscenes (well, for AAA games; I'm going to ignore the wide, worthy, and growing ecosystem of "I had an idea and made it in Unity with purchased assets") use bespoke model and texture assets, motion-capture human animation, and voice acting. None of that is what an Xtranormal auto-puppet show is about.
  • hbn 11mo ago
    Motion capture in bigger budget games only started to become common around the Xbox 360/PS3 generation. Go back to prior generations and it was a lot of "2 models facing each other and their mouths wiggle up and down while audio files play" Pretty much exactly what you see in that video.
    • swiftcoder 11mo ago
      The difference being that someone actually had to record said audiofiles, and animate the mouths wiggling. The "slop"-ness is defined by the inputs, not the outputs.