James Cameron Says Blockbuster Movies Can Only Survive If We ‘Cut the Cost in Half’; He’s Exploring How AI Can Help Without ‘Laying Off the Staff’

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• Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dude. Make some sick models and puppets, on the cheap. You killed it with Aliens; time to return to your roots, or get out of the game.

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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This 100%. CGI should be used to enhance traditional special effects, not replace them entirely.

    Also, planning properly for CGI can dramatically reduce both the cost and quality of CG. For instance, recording reference lighting to provide the CG team so they can more accurately make any fully-rendered elements. Don’t just say “they’ll fix it in post”. That’s where CG cost skyrockets.

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    • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And if your practical effects are good enough, you don’t need CGI at all. Look how the CGI in The Thing remake absolutely fucked up their beatiful puppet monsters, so that everything looks so off that it destroyed willing suspension of disbelief.

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• Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  real artists thrive in constraints. an interesting character having an interesting story arc in an interesting place can all be done at any budget. throwing hundreds of millions at spectacle is missing the point.

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  • HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There was a scene in a 70’s movie that James Cameron worked on that needed a computer animated tracking shot of a city. They couldn’t afford the computer time, so they put reflective tape on black painted blocks and manipulated the lighting levels to make it look like the shot was from a computer.

    Maybe do more of that.

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    • thessnake03@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They did the same thing in Escape from New York. The tech existed to make a wire frame nyc skyline when they flew snake in. But the GC was too expensive, so they built a model.

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• charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Whatever douchebag, just keep pumping out Avatar bullshit

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  • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I don’t mind his avatar stuff. At worst they are just not good. But they still push boundaries with cgi. But his ai remaster slop is just infuriating

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Maybe we can get AI to watch it too.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, we definitely can

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• BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes. Use AI to replace the CEO and suddenly more works gets done without having to capitulate to whinny people, and it is a whole lot cheaper.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Those damned whinny people…

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• Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will be shocked if what we currently have can help in any meaningful way.

  Feel like it would be more useful for B movies because all the thing AI doesn’t get quite right won’t be as big a deal. No one wants to go see the next Avenger and see a poster in the background with gibberish in it. Or Thor having an extra thumb for a few frames.

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• pivot_root@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  You would think that the guy who produced two movies that are thinly veiled criticisms of humanity exploiting the environment and disturbing native inhabitants for profit would not be supporting the exploitative shit that uses enougy electricity to power an entire city.

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  • Reverendender@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    An exploiting them with advanced technology no less

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why would we want big budget studio movies to survive? Been waiting for them to die for decades.

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