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What am I doing with AI?

Writer: Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
1 hour ago
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Only the image and video generation. I'm not saying that it's a perfect solution. It was born out of being isolated and called a dirty pervert by the NZ government. Nobody would animate my ideas. That solves the obvious problem for Hollywood: isn't Peter Jackson doing your AI? No, Peter's actually considering buying a stake in Deep Dream Generator. All those Beatles AI in Working For Each Other were generated by them, not him. He hasn't integrated Tātai Whetū into his workflow; they have. - Even Peter and Fran were just interested fans working on a musical with me. Paul McCartney was the one who pushed me to make a full feature. He'd seen my Transtasia, which didn't use Gen-AI.

All the music is mine. I'm really that good: better than Don, similar to Dave Grohl. NotePerformer, for the thousandth time, uses ML to render my Sibelius scores. As I say, it's a combination of AI + real video that I'm interested in, not pure Gen-AI. That's what the Beatles Invade New Zealand is predicated on. - That's why I'm bagging on Taylor's people for using AI to turn demos into songs. The main giveaway is that the background vocals are perfectly in-sync. Sir Paul gave me the same advice as her: the subtle imperfections make it good. If you listen to The Life Of A Showgirl, that's what you'll hear. In the encore tracks, only Babylon appears to be a real track. - The Plaything is a test. Can AI create cool psychedelic effects for a pro short film? AI is uniquely good at replicating the psychedelic experience.

 
 
 

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Amanda Riddell
Amanda Riddell
an hour ago

For the VFX houses, I'd say that it's just another step in the automation of VFX. It still requires expert designers and people that can solve a problem step-by-step. Yes, all the entry-level jobs are gone; that's what you all wanted anyway. - Darren and all the others made the same mistake: presuming it could generate a scene. It can't. I make all my images first, then animate them. It only works for about 5-8 seconds. My satirical cartoons are far more successful than the film experiments. Those take one go (with a bit of compositing and crude replacing of text). The Imagine trilogy represents 9 months of work, and has substantial live-action bits. Get Out And Vote! is going to have substantial human animation by Lee Gingold's team. Paul…

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My view is simple: if you didn't cry foul about Massive, it's a bit late now. The 1980's was the time to say that CGI wasn't real enough. Back then, Jim Cameron turned his expertise in practical VFX into dough.

I turned my knowledge of cognitive science and computers into dough. It took real music, though. Without that, it would've felt as empty as the other players.


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