Prior to AI, I've made over a dozen films. Six AM call times and eighteen hour days, location release forms, insurance, lifting big props off of two story shelving at the prop house in sweltering heat, last minute fixes to catering for hundreds of people, running AD and logistics.
During the pandemic I bought fifty grand of mocap gear to keep shooting virtually.
Are you a filmmaker? Because this tech helps me tell stories more directly than photons captured on extremely expensive glass, set dressing full of cheats and tricks, and spreadsheets of logistics.
I have several films coming out in theaters that use ArtCraft.
I'm working on anime reboots of several popular series from the 80's and 90's. Full licensing and original authors on board.
I'm talking to several major bands, huge directors, and tons of people in the space. I've talked to the leadership at many of the big studios and I'm working on deals.
I promise I care more about film than you do. I spend so much energy on it that it consumes me.
Hollywood already makes slop. Some of the projects that get greenlit are downright terrible. You don't need AI to make slop.
There are hundreds of AI filmmakers doing absolutely phenomenal work, and the pool is rapidly growing. You don't criticize early CG film for relying on imprecise Blinn-Phong shading, yet people who aren't even trying to carve sculptures out of the new kind of clay are eager to jump on AI rendering artifacts while discounting AI works as a whole.
An AI short film can take months and months of labor. An AI aided scene can take weeks. It's work. It's not "prompt and done".
What sucks is that I know a room full of people that went to expensive film school and wound up in support roles where they never got to helm their dream projects. Hollywood funding was never amenable to following your vision as your heart desired. We've been fortunate in software to not live with that curse. How many young Scorseses withered on the vine because they couldn't access the capital they needed to tell the stories their heart desired? AI is going to fix that.
I mean, you do you I guess..
During the pandemic I bought fifty grand of mocap gear to keep shooting virtually.
Are you a filmmaker? Because this tech helps me tell stories more directly than photons captured on extremely expensive glass, set dressing full of cheats and tricks, and spreadsheets of logistics.
I have several films coming out in theaters that use ArtCraft.
I'm working on anime reboots of several popular series from the 80's and 90's. Full licensing and original authors on board.
I'm talking to several major bands, huge directors, and tons of people in the space. I've talked to the leadership at many of the big studios and I'm working on deals.
I promise I care more about film than you do. I spend so much energy on it that it consumes me.
Hollywood already makes slop. Some of the projects that get greenlit are downright terrible. You don't need AI to make slop.
There are hundreds of AI filmmakers doing absolutely phenomenal work, and the pool is rapidly growing. You don't criticize early CG film for relying on imprecise Blinn-Phong shading, yet people who aren't even trying to carve sculptures out of the new kind of clay are eager to jump on AI rendering artifacts while discounting AI works as a whole.
An AI short film can take months and months of labor. An AI aided scene can take weeks. It's work. It's not "prompt and done".
What sucks is that I know a room full of people that went to expensive film school and wound up in support roles where they never got to helm their dream projects. Hollywood funding was never amenable to following your vision as your heart desired. We've been fortunate in software to not live with that curse. How many young Scorseses withered on the vine because they couldn't access the capital they needed to tell the stories their heart desired? AI is going to fix that.