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At around the 48 minute mark it's all about the #VFX of #Tron - the optical compositing, rotoscoping and CGI. Watch the whole thing for interviews with a young Bruce Boxleitner (of #Babylon5 fame).

Inspiring discussion of the #VFX in #Ghostbusters (and some sequels) by a gang of experts: #salt in moviemaking 40 years ago ...

#AI might not take our #VFX jobs after all:
"#Sora isn’t so much a tool to make movies as it is a slot machine that spits out footage that may or may not be of any use at all."
"...impractic…

Expectations Versus Reality
A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question: "...how can someone actually make something useful out of this?" and "how

Us #VFX artists can finally catch a break. „It’s all CGI“ is no longer the go-to synonym of „a bad movie“. ☺️
https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112513028908404633

Baldur Bjarnason (@baldur@toot.cafe)
Attached: 1 image Not going to link to the actual review because I don’t care and will not care about the movie in question, but I find it interesting how quickly and thoroughly the meaning of “AI” in the public vocabulary as shifted from “futuristic automated intelligence” to “bad and lazily made”