Joanna Stern at the Wall Street Journal presented a project earlier this year where she and a team of editors created a short film using AI tools - not exactly the same thing here but the results were very good. They had a bigger budget too.
You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US2gO7UYEfY
In their case, they interspersed live actors with AI-generated imagery.
From YouTube, which, I second:
"Pinned by @hashemalghailiofficialchannel @philipashane 4 days ago (edited)
I’ve been wondering when this day would come, when we’d see an AI film that was just a damn good film, without the distraction of AI blemishes. This is well written, well directed, well edited, just about everything is top notch. The “acting” isn’t stellar but nor is it bad. This is very impressive and a landmark achievement, kudos to you."
I’m curious if there’s a limit in how good AI can get at movie making. I think it will take revolutionary new algorithms/tech.
This video is a great example. Looks great, sounds great, but also looks like a really good amateur found a bunch of clips on a stock video site and edited them together, probably because stock video is a really plentiful source of learning data. The interviews look the best, but again, lots of interviews in the training data.
When you combine the skill it takes to generate good prompts, with the lack of sufficient training data, I’ll just say I don’t think Christopher Nolan has anything to worry about just yet. Maybe Wes Anderson does though.
The film is about us not accepting a clone for the original. The massive irony is that the film is likely going to generate the same response from the commenters.
from the reddit post:
AI tools used to make this short film:
Image Generation: Whisk, Runway, Midjourney, Dreamina, Sora
Video Generation: FLOW & Veo 3, Dreamina, HIGGSFIELD, Kling AI
Voice Generation: ElevenLabs
Lip Sync: FLOW & Veo 3, Dreamina, HeyGen
Music Generation: Suno AI
Sound FX Generation: MMAudio, ElevenLabs
Prompt Optimization: ChatGPT
This reminded me of Youtube videos that are one stock video after another: the emotional moments didn't register as real or have a feeling of continuity as the story unfolded.
Amazing, especially for $500 - but this feels like Fiverr Pixar to me, even in this advancing state of the art.