Submitted 1 year ago by kid2908@slrpnk.net to moviesandtv@lemmy.film
https://futurism.com/the-byte/disney-mocked-fake-cgi-actors-crowd-scene
cross-posted from: derp.foo/post/317313
There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
How the fuck can they be so greedy?
They make bazillions of dollars per year (if not per month), and they are unwilling to pay just a bit of money for extras.
Fuck film execs, I hope there is another strike.
We reach a new, comical level of greed, and then they find a way to top it.
This kind of thing isn’t new. [Here’s a clip](youtu.be/Zh7eAG2jJkA} from Three Amigos from 1986. The background characters are just a static painting.
Because we live in a system where paying more for doing the right thing will get fired and sued for lost profits as a CEO. If you run a publicly traded company, you are legally beholden to make the decision that yields the most profit, full stop.
I keep seeing people regurgitate this nonsense.
Source or gtfo.
I wouldn’t want to deal with additional background characters either even if they played the role for free.
It’s just more contracts to be signed, more people on set, more potential things that don’t go as planned. Its a lot of extra work and organisation needed for something that pretty much no normal viewer would notice.
I’ve watched that clip probably a dozen times and laughed every time. They have an entire row of fake mannequin people in the middle of the shot surrounded by lots of real actors and extras. Utterly bizarre.
This is why I don’t use the word “content” to describe this stuff. That’s the word execs use, and it’s because they see this kind of thing as fine. It’s just mass-produced product to them.
I had a look as well, and that's gotta be 1995 dancing baby tier CGI. The effects department must be dusting off the old SGI indys because the budget clearly went to Bob's next yacht
Holy shit they’re barely even trying
To be fair, the actors and extras in those 2 seconds aren’t doing much better trying to not look robotic. Some of the CGI mannequins were obvious, but others were less obviously CGI than basketball player 2.
Genuinely, I wonder what the cutoff will be for calling something live-action.
Ask Toy Story Football.
What an embarrassment that was. I hope it got better, I could only bear like half of the first quarter.
I can hear the executive after they got the crowd shot and somebody noted the stands looked pretty empty: “Just have the AI fill it in”
CGI is AI now? I guess if you really want to go out of your way to find something to complain about-
This would be something.
This is not new and has nothing to do with AI. AI is like 5G, but for mass audience.
I can't believe this article is new, this happened months ago at the least. @Marbleturtle@theres.life sent me this meme making fun of it earlier this year:
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DarkThoughts@kbin.social 1 year ago
AI? Looks rather like low tier CGI instead. Most "crowds" are CGI, have been for many years. They're just usually made in a higher quality to hide it better.
Toribor@corndog.social 1 year ago
In The Phantom Menace the crowds for the podracing scenes were just painted cotton swabs. They blew a fan at them to make them move.
567PrimeMover@kbin.social 1 year ago
That's actually really cool. Practical effects and creativity >>>>>> lazy CGI.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 year ago
youtu.be/bxN1xx-bdpM?si=4cn0Jzlh6LiHjfmk more at 17:57
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s actually extremely creative and clever.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This article is designed to piss off the ignorant. Nothing more.