OPENAI brings an animated film of feature film motivated by Ai in Cannes

You knew it had to happen, and now he did it. The Wall Street Journal reports that Optai lends its services to the production of an animated feature film entitled Criterionwhich aims to be done in time for the Cannes festival next year. This would put his production time to nine months, which is unknown for an animated feature film, but it is because it will be created using AI.

According to the article, the use of OpenAi resources, the production companies Vertigo Films and Native Foreign will rent actors to express characters created by fueling the original drawings in generative AI software. The whole film should cost less than $ 30 million and will only take 30 people to finish.

The driving force behind is a man by the name of Chad Nelson, a creative specialist in Openai. A few years ago, he would have characters with the intention of making a short film with the Dall-E images generator. What he did and you can look at him here. Based on this, he was then hired by Openai and since then decided to think bigger.

“Openai can say what its tools do all day, but it’s much more impactful if someone does it,” Nelson told WSJ. “It’s a much better case study than me to build a demo.”

The film “reflects the kind of creativity and exploration that we like to encourage,” an Openai spokesman for the newspaper told.

The film would have a script for some of the teams behind the recent Paddington in Peru, This gives the impression that AI will be used mainly to rationalize the animation process. This will, in turn, make the film’s production so cheaper because the programs do the detailed, clever, but often tedious and long work of human animators. It is a bad thing for human animators, but, hypothetically, a good thing for production companies if the result is an animated film of $ 30 million that can be published in theaters in less than a year and earn money.

Obviously, it is a slippery slope. And there is no guarantee that a) it will work, or b) if this is the case, someone will leave it. It could end up being a waste of time of $ 30 million. But you have to imagine that it is probably more attractive for a film company than spending time three times and perhaps 10 times the money on something that fails in the same way.

Learn more about Criterion At the Wall Street Journal and share your thoughts below.

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