Artificial intelligence produces short films – is this the cinema of the future?

Hanover/Detroit. Actresses, props, cameras, sound, lighting, filming permits: a film set requires an enormous amount of effort. Unless AI takes over production. This shows what can currently come out of this The short film, “The Frost,” is freely available on the website of the specialized magazine “Technology Review.” you can see.

The twelve-minute AI film was produced by US video software manufacturer Waymark, as follows: First, still images and footage derived from them were created using the DALL-E 2 and DALL-E AI-powered image generators. These images were then animated using the artificial intelligence tool D-ID.

“AI madness” accepted.

However, the filmmakers did not aim to make a film indistinguishable from a production in which people act. “At some point we stopped insisting on the accuracy of photography and started embracing the DALL-E craze,” the magazine quoted Stephen Parker, creative director at Waymark, as saying.

The result is a very unique, sometimes disturbing, sometimes gorgeous, surreal aesthetic that oscillates between collage, animation, and film that feels real. “Certain things were difficult to pull off of DALL-E, like the emotional reactions to the faces,” Josh Rubin, director of The Frost, was quoted as saying. “But other times it got us excited,” Robin continued. “We said, ‘Oh my God, this is magic happening before our eyes.’”

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