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who s a creative director from visual effects house framestore, now, it s important to remember always when you re dealing with this kind of stuff, that the ai doesn t understand what it s drawing. and actually that s what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. and actually that s what gives it its unique, quirky animation style. you can see in that robot there, the controls on the front, all the buttons are rippling and glitching. yeah. it can t keep them consistent over the number of frames you ve animated it. so thatjust seems to be part of the thing where it doesn t necessarily understand what needs to stay the same in the animation. funnily enough, actually, there s a moment where the girl robot spins her head around, and that was something that itjust did serendipitously. i didn t ask for that, and itjust did it. i mean, it s one of the interesting things about this, the sort of serendipitous nature of it giving you something unexpected, which is also part of the
the characters weren t designed by illustrators and animators. instead, they were described in english to an ai, which then created them itself. the film was made by william bartlett, who s a creative director from visual effects house framestore, and who, like a lot of generative ai creators at the moment, put it together in his spare time. it started off life as a test. and i wanted to do a test that was more elaborate than just a couple of shots. i wanted to try and string together something which had a bit of narrative to try and drive the kind of ambition of the shots. will actually had to use different generative ai tools for different parts of the process. first, he asked midjourney to come up with some still images of the kind of characters that he wanted. and so i might describe a sort of vintage tin robot playing a trumpet, for example, and then you get a kind of set of images to choose from that you might or might not like. and the great thing is that it takes abou
we ll find out what lara s thinking as she immerses herself in culture. i know what i m looking at now, but how do i feel? and less than two years after ai took up art, is it ready for hollywood? spencer s getting his big trailer voice ready. the ai will listen to the audio. deep trailer voice: ..and generate me a new one. jazz music plays. this is the tinpot jazz orchestra. it lasts less than a minute, but it is a charming, glitchy, cartoon like production created using generative ai video tools. now, this means that the characters weren t designed by illustrators and animators. instead, they were described in english to an ai, which then created them itself. the film was made by william bartlett, who s a creative director from visual effects house framestore, and who, like a lot of generative ai creators at the moment, put it together in his spare time. it started off life as a test. and i wanted to do a test that was more elaborate than just a couple of shots. i wanted to