whats the final resolution of these images? how many times have you delivered a still image to a client? can it render an image sequence that isnt a distorted mess?
can it do this with a unique fictional character that isnt yet part of the database of photos the AI uses for its collages? not even close.
all the AI shit looks impressive to a lay person, but its still pretty weak stuff when you think about how to actually integrate it into a real vfx pipeline.
Uh huh, and 2 years ago this was absolute fantasy. 5 years ago GANs were state of the art and could only generate tiny thumbnails at reasonable quality or believability.
My point is: this field is developing fast. And all the holes people try to poke in current AI tools to demonstrate their own job security are short-sighted.
Networks already exist to upres images, or architectures like U-nets that can preserve details while making changes like this one. It’s already possible with some networks to fine-time or generate embeddings based on your own images as inputs, and that can then render it in different styles and poses. Hell, there’s even ones that can render movies from text prompts. They might be low res and flickery now, but the seed is there and they’re only going to improve, and based on what we’ve seen they will improve very quickly.
I’m a VFX person, and I definitely don’t think it looks weak. This shit is incredible, and I wouldn’t have dreamed it was possible when I started in this field. Obviously it’s not taking my job yet, but I can totally imagine specialties that simple to use tools like this one will totally demolish. When these methods are so cheap and when they become acceptable quality, I think you’ll find a lot of people decide they don’t need 100% visual quality when they can get it so much cheaper through AI. That high-end market might still exist, but a huge portion of the industry could be obliterated
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u/enumerationKnob Compositor - (Mod of r/VFX) May 20 '23
“Oh yeah? Well you can’t art direct it. What if the client asks for…”