AI Beatles thoughts

If I'm right and they plopped a couple of cheap demos on YouTube, I'd say this: The drums are ok, but the guitars aren't even close to real. In video games, they've been using virtual instruments and such for a long time. If I remember correctly, the Rock Band series involved demos by the developers, and then they built virtual fretboards so that they could program the game sequences. The idea was that it had to feel like a real guitar, so they'd check the phrases. Merging that with Peter's AI would probably generate something close. I'd totally double the parts for a composite layer, but my technique is too classical. They use their thumbs for bass notes, and that's verboten in classical guitar. I could do John and George, but Yesterday isn't my picking style. Lucinda could probably handle Yesterday. She's also left-handed. - They're able to emote, but it's not enough for a hero shot. That's where motion capture and whatever they did in the Captain America film come in. With a mix of VFX specialists and AI, I'd say we can knock a lot of the budget down. That's the real strength of the project: the IP is Apple Corps, so that isn't a factor when it comes to the budget. $25-40 million USD, with 30 million pounds as a safety. That's my guesstimate. Music is easier to render than fights. - My thought was that you could take live clips and then put them in the 3D space. That was how I thought you'd negotiate the gig films in Beatles Invade NZ. My pitch was that it'd be a surreal experience to watch themselves doing things that they vaguely remember - Paul has journals that the new facts are derived from - or comic stuff that feels like them circa 1964. Hence it's not a traditional biopic. It's the hybrid AI project my short story descibed.