pictures are generated by ai
text | Rhino Entertainment, author | Founder, editor | Pu Fang
The trend of full ai movie dramas is sweeping at home and abroad.
There is hot news in the industry recently. In terms of movies, the Terminator remake "our t2 remake", known as "the world's first feature-length movie completely generated by AI", premiered in Los Angeles; in terms of animation, CCTV launched the first domestic video AI The animation "Ode to a Thousand Autumn Poems" and the self-produced AI short film "The Monkey King Comes Out" by netizen "ai Madhouse" are popular on B station; in terms of short dramas, the micro-short drama "White Fox" produced by the "full AI production process" has recently been launched on TikTok Sound...
Since the advent of Ceiling Sora, a Vincent video tool this year, the capital concept of AI video has continued to be popular. These all-AI film and television projects that have been rapidly "landed" at home and abroad seem to indicate an era in which AI will completely subvert the film and television industry. Already coming.
ai Screenshot of a scene from the movie "our t2 remake"
Is this really the case?
After carefully observing the relevant works one by one, Mr. Rhino discovered that these current projects that are said to be all produced by AI are still far from "mature film and television works". This article will take you to dig into the truth behind the popularity of AI movies and dramas.
Movies and dramas are blooming, AI is making a revolution? The reason why
all-AI movie dramas have attracted much attention is that, to put it bluntly, these projects seem to be trying their best to prove to all walks of life that AI can completely replace humans to create movies or TV series.
The movie that best conveys this signal is undoubtedly the movie "our t2 remake". In almost all reports at home and abroad, terms such as "the world's first feature-length film entirely generated by AI" were used to describe the project, and information about the film's premiere in Los Angeles was released, and one of the film's "starring actors" was even announced. timmy the terminator also posted his premiere red carpet photos on ins.
I have to say that there are many information errors in these reports. In fact, the so-called "premiere" of this film was just a small screening in Los Angeles by the production company that produced it. After the premiere, the first scene of the film was quickly uploaded to YouTube. Free for everyone to watch.
opens the YouTube account "our t2 remake" with the same name. From the "Title Notes" in the first scene of the movie, we can learn that it is essentially a joint production by 50 art creators in the AI field on the Internet, but it is not used for commercial purposes at all. A "non-profit" fan project of " Terminator ".
Judging from the finished film, this film can hardly be called a "movie" in the traditional sense. The story begins in 2024, when OpenAI, which has achieved general artificial intelligence, sends two chat robots through the future with the intention of destroying the leader of the human resistance, Sam Altman. However, with the narration of the plot, the entire film seems to be composed of static AI pictures. . The AI-generated Schwarzenegger, sci-fi apocalypse, and battle scenes in the
movie are enough to look real, but the distortion of the faces of the characters in many scenes, the stiffness of the limbs, the mechanical sense of the mouth when speaking, and the weird behavioral logic all bring " "Uncanny Valley Effect" full of physical discomfort, this kind of work that is similar to narration + ppt is still far from a live-action movie.
In fact, the creator of "our t2 remake" may not actually intend to make it as a movie. The trailer contains many "spoof" paragraphs that are obviously deliberately making fun of AI distorting the characters' faces, and a lot of references to " Star Wars " With the popular elements of Master Yoda and Teddy Bear, the protagonist of "Teddy Bear", the whole project is more like a performance art.
In other words, we can regard "our t2 remake" spread on YouTube as a collective tribute to classic fan adaptations by AI-generated video creators and fans across the Internet. It is similar in nature to the ghost and beast fan videos on site B. There is no need to overestimate its industry significance.
Coincidentally, the trend of AI-generated videos has also spread to the field of drama series. There are many domestic actions in this regard. For example, CCTV recently launched the country's first Wensheng video AI series cartoon "Ode to Poems of Thousand Autumn". This animation is mainly aimed at primary school students and aims to "present unique Chinese aesthetic characteristics through AI artificial intelligence technology." Fine art visuals show the feelings of family and country and the true feelings of the world in classic Chinese poetry."
"Ode to Thousand Autumn Poems" comprehensively uses Wensheng video technology to transform the creative stories behind popular Tang poems such as "Ode to the Goose", "Passing the Old Friend's Village", "Send Meng Haoran to Guangling from the Yellow Crane Tower" into beautiful Chinese-style animations. Feedback from the program It seems that this innovative project has great educational significance for the current group of primary school students, but the project is more like a documentary about the story behind the popular science poem than an animation.
But despite this, the empowerment of animation production may be the area where AI technology can shine most at present. In addition to "Ode to Thousand Autumn Poems", the main station has also recently released a trailer for the "Chinese Mythology Micro-short Series" "Mending the Sky" produced by CCTV Artificial Intelligence Studio and Tsinghua University Metaverse Culture Laboratory. This kind of Chinese style AI micro-series Short plays will be an area of AI work development that the industry needs to pay special attention to in the future.
In terms of live-action short dramas, AI Wencheng video technology also has great potential. Compared with movies, the empowerment of short videos and short plays by AI technology will have greater execution possibilities. The recent "full AI production process short play" "White Fox" launched on Douyin has attracted a lot of attention in the industry .
In just a few minutes of plot, "White Fox" unfolds a magnificent fantasy story in which an immortal drops a golden elixir to awaken a white fox to go to the human world. Obviously, this type of AI short drama with rich plots is more interesting than a purely lively AI video. There is a market prospect.
has the same purpose as "White Fox". Recently, the AI-generated " Journey to the West " series of animated short films released by the up owner "ai Madhouse" on station b suddenly became popular. The video is about 4 minutes long and is based on the first episode of the original "Journey to the West". Based on the original, AI is used to depict the magnificent scenes such as the Flower and Fruit Mountain and the Fairy Palace, as well as the extremely informative plot of "The Coming of the Monkey King". This popular short film seems to point out the direction of the implementation of AI technology.
How does AI empower film and television at this stage?
Let’s look at AI movies and dramas in a different way.
It is understandable that the complex emotions of curiosity and panic about AI technology make us habitually "exaggerate" the subversive effect of AI. However, at the implementation level, we need to be clear about the impact of AI on the film and television industry at this stage. It's far from being a "complete replacement".
At this stage, AI’s empowerment of film and television is more of an “instrumental” aspect.
First of all, AI helps to significantly reduce the production costs of many film and television projects. To be honest, instead of going all out to use AI to manage a project, it is more valuable to use AI to assist production in existing film and television projects.
For example, Marvel's recently aired American drama "Secret Invasion" has already used AI in the production process. The drama's AI quickly generated plot outlines, subtitles and other materials based on the Hollywood screenwriter database for the main creators to use, significantly reducing the project production cycle.
For another example, AI currently has an excellent effect in empowering overseas short dramas. Using AI tools to change subtitles, dubbing, faces and other operations on popular domestic short plays will undoubtedly save a lot of money compared to finding European and American actors to remake the short play.
According to Shenxiang’s relevant research, the cost of producing a local original short drama in Europe, the United States and Australia is generally between US$150,000 and US$200,000, while direct AI translation or AI face-changing of domestic copyrighted short dramas will It only costs 20 yuan a minute, and based on a 100-minute play, it only costs about 2,000 yuan.
Furthermore, practice has proven that currently AI has development prospects for the film and television industry only in the animation field. Because from the current stage, in all live-action film and television works involving AI, there are still a lot of "uncanny valley effects" and weird behavioral logic about live-action presentations, while AI animations do not have similar problems.
It can be seen that AI animation has already surpassed humans in terms of scene imagination, and with the continuous iteration of AI Wensheng video technology, it may only be a matter of time before "mature AI animation feature films" are produced in the future. This is also The reason why CCTV and many film and television companies have recently increased their focus on AI animation production.
On the other hand, we need to see that most of the AI movie dramas mentioned above in this article were launched before the birth of sora. This year, sora has demonstrated its revolutionary AI video detail processing capabilities. It seems to be the perfect solution to many of the production flaws present in the above-mentioned works.
In other words, the movies and dramas produced based on sora Wensheng video technology have not really come out yet. If you dare to imagine, with the rapid iteration and optimization of various AI technologies, it may one day bring a disruptive "big reversal" to the film and television industry.
