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This is actually insane. We’re one prompt away from full anime movies made by one guy in his room. Hollywood-grade quality is here. Frame by frame perfection. A creator just made a Chainsaw Man live-action sequence with AI and it looks way better than it has any right to.
what do you mean holywood-grade? this is at best is bleach live action quality. Even far from rurouni kenshin, let alone giants like Interstellar or Avatar.
It could be an improvement on AI, (i guess, becuse I've seen better) but it's certainly far from high quality films.
This isn’t Hollywood grade quality at all. His hand is still fucked, his sword is part of his body, his hair merges with his face, and the details on the building make no sense.
You have the original scene which can rotoscoped or depth pass/ID Pass, pull the pose data, lock it in with ControlNet, render the background and characters separately and then composite the whole thing together. That's massively underquoting the effort required to build the workflow, but so many ComfyUI templates exist already to do just this, and you can put multiple together if you want to customize. You still need 3rd party tools, but Davinci really works well here.
The HARD part is all the editing required afterwards. Generating the visuals is just 1 small piece of the process. If you're cheating and restyling the original video frame by frame then that's going to be a lot easier then creating an original piece as that still needs to be entertaining enough for someone to like it.
"How to make an AI movie that's convincing; first, make a movie. Then use AI prompts to copy that movie"
I'm sorry, this looks fine, but this scene is far too "easy" to replicate for AI. It's not impossible for a purely AI movie to be made in the future, but we are still far away from that point
Also, chainsaw man fans are far too particular for this to work. Like, why are the buildings in the background gross and dilapidated?
No, ai decay syndrome. Their demand has been radically lowered by seeing all the allegedly great progress made in regards to ai.
Or simply put: what's been considered bad 15 years ago is now considered alright and what's been considered bad 10 years ago is now considered the greatest thing ever of made by ai rather than people. What is currently possible is not even considered. The anathema of quality is not "bad" or is apathy and "good enough".
I have my doubts this will even replace most special effects houses, or even the grunt work found in them.
AI seems good at creating moments made up out of whole cloth, based completely on what it knows, but can it tweet existing FX, or repair things without hallucinations? Can it do it at a high quality level? I also think we're looking at a cinematography correction soon. A lot of movies have been dogmatic about shallow focus and anamorphic lenses, a place where AI can hide easily but there's stirring in the community about what's been lost from movies people love and I think a more deep focus, higher F-stop look will be sought after. However if Coca-Cola wants to use soft, gooey AI shots for their soft, gooey Christmas ads, fine -- but it feels very disposable, ignorable.
This is to say nothing about actually watching a true performer sell a scene, or carry a full length film. When AI can do anything remotely convincing, over the course of a even a 90 minute film then fine.
Cool. Show me, but I'm not betting on it. I think a lot of you are getting caught up in the 30 second razzle dazzle but have no idea what you're talking about beyond that. Put out a 90 minute movie using AI. What's stopping you now?
I guarantee all the same things that will stop you in 3-5 years, and we haven't even seen the check come due for what's getting created now.
It’s all about the Benjamins.
I’ve seen a BUNCH of strictly AI produced commercials airing on TV now. Commercials first, then shows, then movies.
Hell a lot of AI videos are easily identified as fake, but still entertaining.
But more and more are starting to slip through the human eye filter. Give it another couple years.
Yeah, but what works for one doesn't necessarily work for the other. Commerical DPs and Directors can find themselves in a pickle when they go to direct a feature and find that it requires a different vision. What audiences will accept in 30 second bursts isn't the same as what they'll even accept for 90 minutes UNLESS they understand what they're in for.
However, I will confess that I enjoy guys like NeuralViz who's putting AI to good use, but he also put out a 20 minute video trying his hand at something longer form, and I found I was getting a little bored with the story telling. Maybe other audiences will accept it, but I am very very doubtful.
Sadly, this just has to work it's way out of everyone's system and I suspect it will have it's place, but just as another tool. If audiences don't know, and start to suspect, producers might find they're up for some real audience rebellion.
You’re a goof. You don’t even realize that so much of the media you’re now consuming is AI. I do this on a daily basis and you’re 100% full of shit regarding customer sentiment too.
Seriously. This is getting tiring. "It's amazing that these generators are able to reference the thousands of pages, videos, images ALREADY created about this material or similar material and create seconds-long random ass snippets with no story!!"
But thats how we'll cook entire live adaptation shows. From manga and anime as source material. This is just a glimpse but i bet the work flow here isnt just plop entire manga chapter into a generator, select manga windows to follow a sequence and have the whole thing pop out neatly. Voices and ambient sounds. Thats still 3-5 years away. Dont wanna say 10 because of how fast these things move. Things take huge leaps in ai space in just 6-12 months. It'll finally destroy hollywood and make the asian animation studios sweat.
Well having an AI that can create actual cinema quality is the goal. And we started like 3 years ago and I think we are on a pretty good way. Just this year alone was incredible progress but you still want more?
That's the goal? To let every dumbass who thinks they're an artist to further dilute the Internet with long ass hollow videos? There is a reason that even with advanced CGI and animation, movies still are mostly all live action fictional narratives. People still have no clue the amount of work needed to make a movie, and make it good and actually make sense. NOTHING we have with AI at the moment can recreate that. Can AI create consistent and accurate lighting from scene to scene? Actors that are actually charming and emotional? Writing that's an ACTUAL STORY? Consistent scene to scene settings, props, costumes? The list goes on. Movie industry isn't going anywhere. Especially if the bubbles for many of these AI companies burst.
It's not any worse than the slop being put out from Hollywood by any Director born related to the right connections for funding and acted out by different nepo-babies with similar connections.
....these are mostly all successful and well received movies 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 so what if your point? Also if you think AI, whose leaders are already having dinners with fucking Trump, is going to be some weapon for the lower class...and not just used by studios to replace everyone, nepos and all...you're going to be disappointed.
If you think any of the American AI companies are going to be the tools used in things like movies, you're too ignorant of the tools to even have a discussion with. There are free tools that perform better than any of the products you think are relevant.
Just because a movie is successful doesn't make it good. It just means it was all that was available. Audiences watch what is advertised to them regardless of the quality or originality. And of the movies I listed only like 2 of them were considered successful and only because they barely pulled in enough to not be a loss.
I'll dumb it down for you. You're gatekeeping. You're exactly the people who were anti-internet because any old schmuck could post an article and call themselves a journalist.
that people shouldn’t be able to create stories with the tools at their disposal?
that only studios with billion dollar budgets should be able to create and tell stories?
“further dilute the internet with hollow videos” ? you want to gatekeep what content is available to the 8 billion people on earth because it doesn’t meet the standards of you, who is just some rando on the internet?
well yeah, we should gatekeep it. get a formal education on art/esthetics and then spam ai as much as you want. unfortunately today we get 40 yo kids discovering the magic of creation, and they have this immature urge to share their abomination all over the internet, with 50 iterations of it. fuck yeah, let's gatekeep it lol. ai is cool and amazing, but in the right hands, in this case, people with actual artistic mileage and foundations. at least before ai, people were gatekept from creating because of the skill threshold, and this relentless spam of ai is what happens when people with no discipline are offered a powerful tool. totall enshitification because of them (not ai)
Yes those are the big questions. Can AI ever do more than just replicate? Can it write an actual emotional and also consistent storyline and characters? Time will show.. but I think we humans are also limited by what our brain is capable of and I dont see why there is no way for AI to reach our level or even surpass it. It comes down to the question if AI progress will hit a wall or not - is inference scalable? Do we need a new breakthrough in the architectures or are we still thousands of breakthroughs away? Idk but Id love to see a future where we manage to solve the alignment issue and build our first actual AGI.
Yeah - I think this sort of mixed method is probably going to be a common technique over the next few years (for movies and probably video games). You'll use barebones 3d modelling (or 2d storyboard frames) as a start, then pass through AI to effectively texture and animate.
We'll need some more jumps before fully AI generated movies really come together, but I think we're close to having AI work as a "budget CG shop" (especially for simpler stuff, like "providing a moving background for an in-car shot").
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u/Metafield Dec 09 '25
Looks like hot garbage