Every animal is just two known earth species mashed together. I don’t know how they were okay with that. We didn’t see any of those in a Star Wars movie did we?
There’s a reason for that and it’s explained in the video: AI still needs input. If you want to create something really new you need new input and artists to provide that input. That’s what the guy is telling the whole video.
Corporations using Ai to pump out slop. I’m shocked I tell you.
I’m kinda hoping, that this was bad on purpose to secure their jobs. The animals in this “short film” really don’t feel Star Wars in any way.
Everybody who thought this was even remotely ok needs to be removed from LucasFilm/ILM immediately. The audacity to call this “Artistdriven Innovation” is a disgrace to all creatives, all audiences, and to Lucas and his works.
You don’t need to bypass human influence to make “Star Wars-y animals”. Handcrafted CGI definitely can help and may be essential for some cases. But take a look at the Dray used in Andor using real-life sheep accessorized to look alien. It’s simple, it’s cheap, and it’s believably non-Earthly.
It really is an insult to everybody who has worked on or appreciated the franchise and the industry’s output in the past to think that it’d be better to dispose all of the human design and care in all of the model props and careful editing used since the opening crawl and replace it with a dice roll of shoddy surrealism.
Btw, skip to 11 minutes into the ted talk, to just see the AI things
