• Krem [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    burning down the natural world to shittily remake a movie about burning down the natural world galaxy-brain

    What value is there in adapting the animated medium to live action?

    no idea–just making it for fun

    prompters turn gold to shit and then shrug and go “i dunno lol”

  • FnordPrefect [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    anakin-padme-2 “You chose to do this to Princess Mononoke specifically because of its themes of technology corrupting nature allows your project to be an Iron-ic (sorry can’t resist the pun) way to show the devastating influence of AI ‘art’, right?”

    bazinga “It’s what themes? I just think it looks cool!”

    anakin-padme-4

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      Jesus Christ don’t we have enough evidence at this point that replacing beautifully animated works of art with live action is always a bad proposition?

      You only need to do this shit when you don’t want to pay a screenwriter or a director to do the designs for an original piece of art. “Oh, everyone liked The Movie: Animated? We can just gut the dialogue, set design, art, framing, story, iconic characters, and soundtrack, then tell people we made it better by using live performers.”

      AI strips it down one more level and just changes how the art is rendered. Damn, the problem with Princess Monenoke was THE GRAPHICS WEREN’T GOOD ENOUGH. It’s not even “live action”. It’s just performance tuning.

      Miyazaki getting the production crew from Homeward Bound and making a live action live animal film maybe could be fucking awesome. Idfk. But This. Ain’t. It.

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      I don’t think adaptations are necessarily anti art. There are a myriad of books, films, stage performances, animated shows and animated movies which are adapted from each other which showcase a beautiful story in a variety of forms.

      The issue is doing this shit for a cash grab and not actually trying to create a beautiful adaptation of a story.

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        I will still argue otherwise, that well before the treat printer flood there were already thousands or even millions of credulous rubes all repeating the same SpaceX ad copy about “humans must become interplanetary species” and “can’t have all our eggs in one basket” and “mankind must leave the cradle” all on their own.

        I mostly do this out of spite for the habit those assholes have of calling anyone they disagree with “NPCs.” I’d rather treat them as willing and voluntary stupid asshole cultists who chose to be stupid asshole cultists.

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    I was recommended a Japanese channel that did this with FF6 and it was just awful

    You had airbrushed ai waifu Terra and Celes with doll-like faces just kind of lounging around boobily making porn faces and the Magitek soldiers were just American troops in desert camo

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    Y’know I’m an easy going guy generally, but anyone unironically saying “Kling credits” as if that’s a real thing needs to be taken out and [REDACTED]

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      He is a very special Main Character and he pressed the correct keywords into the prompt which makes him an artist. so-true

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    Watching the side by side it’s easy to see how much of this is completely devoid of technical considerations. AI is capable of tweening images, but each shot is framed more or less like a portrait with no movement. I think that turning a storyboard into a live action film will be a viable pipeline at some point in the next couple years, but it’s going to involve just as much process development as it is going to revolve around technical achievements in AI.

    We can complain all we want about how this guy burned down a forest to make a shitty fanfic recut of the Princess Mononoke trailer, but looking at his costs and the costs of making movies in general, it’s hard to argue that this isn’t going to become a thing.