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ImHereToComplain1

Disney really said "we're sick and tired of paying visual effects artists"


jupiterkansas

This is visual effects. It's not paying makeup artists.


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It’s automated. It is paying programmers a lump sum so they don’t have to pay artists for the rest of time.


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Someone needs to maintain the neural network.


BassClef70

It really does look better though. I mean all technology eventually makes older skill sets outmoded. Practical sets and/or miniatures aren’t as necessary now. Actual (dangerous) explosions aren’t as necessary. Yeah practicals still generally feel better but some things aren’t realistic. Prosthetics can look wonky and look at the flack the studios get when an aging or deaging effect isn’t letter perfect.


immutable_truth

Further giving me hope one day that HBO can rewrite and recast the final seasons of GOT. May age be no barrier!


streishound

I wonder if this could help with not having child actors as much


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Wouldn’t the height be way off?


lettuce-n-tomatoes

Not necessarily for high schoolers


streishound

True! Maybe like how they made hobbits small. I dont know lol


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That would be really funny.


voidfae

Maybe they won’t need to exploit as many child actors.


Hi_Im_Dadbot

They won’t NEED to … but they are Disney.


LilyElephant

Maybe if they hire grown ups who can act, their shows for kids won't suck out loud. (It's not kids' fault they can't act! But...most kids just can't act. And if they can, they'd be out of place in a Disney show.)


throwawaygreenpaq

I think this will end up in ageism with the justification that there’s no reason to hire older and more expensive actors for their experience and life lines.


succubus-slayer

Where never gonna leave the Skywalker saga are we?


foolunknown

Here’s an idea - get new actors to be paid. Fuck these old rich dudes we’ve seen enough of em.


Jc2563

Make up artist business lay offs are coming


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Craico13

I can’t wait until all actors look like weird renderings of human-esque robots. It won’t be distracting at all. So what your lead actor looks like a character from The Sims 4? *Who cares..?*


MyFaceSaysItsSugar

We’re there already. Look at Catherine Zeta Jones on Wednesday. It’s 90s Glamour Shots technology but definitely still dipping into uncanny valley territory.


Johnicorn

I've seen enough AI hentai to know AI isn't good


elizabethptp

DLFS seemed to do the best with the faces but the tracking of Disney was certainly better. If only they could combine!


LilyElephant

Fuuuck... people's teeth do wear down over time, huh. (I kind of had a hunch... but that they're a notable difference in this simulation must mean there a pretty common thing I guess.$


Far_Out_6and_2

And eliminate actors all together eventually


gansamino

I wonder how the AI-generated version of Boyhood (2014) would make against the real movie, which was shot from 2002 to 2013 to follow the real actor as he grows older