Ancestra says a lot about the current state of AI-generated videos

After watching the film of the writer / director Elisa McKenet, the new short AncestraI can see why a number of Hollywood studios are interested in the Public Prosecution. A number of shots were created and polished only with claims, in cooperation with the Google Deepmind team. Obviously, what is the primitive soup production house that focuses on Darren Aronofsky and Google Sonfing from the normalization of this type of creative workflow. But when you sit to listen to McNitt and Aronofsky, they talk about how the palaces collect, it is difficult not to think of the AI’s obstetrics to enter into a new era of “content” that seems to be cooking in a laboratory – and dozens of film makers were placed outside the operation.

Inspired by the complex story of McKenite, Ancestra Zoom in the life of the liquid mother (Audrey Corsa) and she prays because of the defect of the heart of her child who is newly born to recover miraculously. Although Qusayr is characterized by a number of real actors that lead to practical groups, Gemini, Imagen and Veo models were used from Google Development AncestraFootage of what precedes the mother’s mind and a dangerous small hole inside the child’s heart. Inside the womb of the mother, we appear blondReaded by the child, who gradually becomes part of the film’s soundtrack. The forms of women are imagined about what it means to be a mother of a series of very short clips of women who have children, volcanic explosions, and the stars that are born after the big explosion-and all of them have an equal footing with them.

All this is very emotional, but the message that is transmitted about the strength of the mother’s love is clichés, especially when it is homogeneous with what is mainly the montage of nature shots created on the computer. Visually Ancestra It looks like a project trying to prove how all videos that flood the Internet of artificial intelligence immerses the Internet is actually something that should be excited about it. Nevertheless, the film lacks the wonderful narrative material, so that it appears to be a fairly weak argument in favor of Hollywood’s rush to reach the roaming basin while the atmosphere is hot.

Since McNitt Smash cuts quick shots for different types of animals that sponsor their young and pills from holes that are filled with microscopic organisms, you can learn that these visual images represent a large part of the foundations of artificial intelligence in the movie. Each of them feels another example of the ability of text models to Vidio to get rid of strange -looking clips, which it will be difficult to merge in a film that has been fully produced. But in a video behind the scenes that Google shared in his announcement last week, McNitt is elaborated on how it is, when facing having to have a real child, it made sense to create one fake with Google’s models.

“There is nothing like human performance and the type of emotion that the actor can raise,” McKenite explains. “But when I wrote that there would be a newborn child, I didn’t know a solution how we were [shoot] This is because you can’t get a child to behave. “

Film manufacturing with infants raises all kinds of challenges that do not constitute a problem with CGI children and dolls. But going to the Gen AI path, as McNitt explained the opportunity to make her movie more personal using old photos of herself as a newborn child to serve as a basis for the face of the fake child.

With a little control, AncestraThe production team managed to combine Corsa clips and the fake child to create scenes in which they seem interacting, but not completely, as if both were real representatives. If you look closely at broader shots, you can see that the mother’s hand appears to be hovering over her child because the child is not really present. But the scene moves so quickly that it does not appear immediately, and it is much lower than “Ai-Lover” than the most fictional shots of the film that aims to represent the hole in the heart of the child who meets the will of the mother.

Although McKinet notes how “hundreds of people” were involved in the construction process AncestraOne of the largest fast food in the video behind the scenes is the relatively small size of the project production team with what you may see in a more traditional short movie that tells the same story. Employ more artists to visualize them and then drafting AncestraThe video will make the movie more expensive and time. Especially for independent directors and new creativity who do not have unlimited resources at their disposal, these are the types of challenges that may be very difficult to overcome.

but Ancestra It also looks like a case study on how to lower the Importary IQ to eliminate jobs that would have been going to people one day. The argument is often that artificial intelligence is a tool, and that the functions will change rather than replace it. However, it is difficult to imagine that the studio executives really believe in a future, as VFX specialists, concept artists, and video paintings moved to jobs as an immediate book that are well compensated enough to maintain their livelihoods. This was a large part of the Hollywood movie / TV actors to strike in 2023. This is also the reason for the strikers of the video game for the best part of last year, and he feels that it is unreasonable to reject these concerns because people simply fear innovation or resistance to change.

In the video, Aronofsky notes that advanced technology has always played a key role in the film industry. You will be subjected to severe pressure today to find a modern movie or series that was not produced using strong digital tools that were not present a few decades ago. There are things about AncestraThe use of obstetric intelligence that makes it definitely seems to be a display of how Google models, in theory and high -quality training data, are sophisticated enough to create clips that people already want to watch in the theater. But the way Araunovsky is going with a loud face and responds “not good” when one of the deep researchers in Google explains that Veo can only generate eight seconds clips that say a lot about the location Ancestra As a creative endeavor.

McKinet seems to tell her a little when she talks about how the output of gynecological models affects the way I wrote Ancestra. “Both of these are really informed each other,” she says, but this seems to be a very positive way to rotate that VEO’s technical restrictions are required to write a dialogue that can match a series of clips associated with mystery to the concepts of motherhood and childbirth. All this makes it seem like the basic intention of McKenit, sometimes, it had to be not broken in favor of working with everything that broadcasts the models of artificial intelligence. If it was about the opposite, Ancestra It may have finished telling a more interesting story. But there is very little AncestraA novel or, to be honest, its pioneering images that it looks like the reason for Hollywood He should He rushed to embrace this full technological fabric.

Films that were produced with more artificial intelligence may be cheaper and faster, but technology as it is now does not seem really capable of producing an art that will put after the cinemas or push people to register in the service of other broadcasts. It is important to keep in mind that at the end of the day, Ancestra In fact, it is just an advertisement aimed at refining the noise for Google, something that one of us must rush.