In 2023, we had just begun touching the surface of generative AI’s capabilities, baffled and excited that suddenly robots could draw pictures and converse in humanlike language. This past year, on the other hand, was a wild ride at breakneck speed (in every way) – a myriad of emerging AI video generators for creating photorealistic moving images (with weird artifacts, but still), new enhanced post-production capabilities, full AI-based production applications, and so on. Let’s look at what 2024 brought us regarding AI tools for filmmakers and some current trends in this area. Over the past years, we have tried our best to keep you updated on AI-enhanced tools and developments relevant to our industry. And boy, did we receive backlash and get criticized for it! However, we still believe that filmmakers should keep up with technology updates and at least become familiar with what it is capable of nowadays. So, here it is, your short recap “Previously on AI!” The era of AI video generators The beginning of the year was marked with one announcement after another. Following Runway’s lead, companies (from small startups to tech giants) started to present their own text-to-video generators. The first “big news” came from Midjourney, an already well-known AI for image creation (however, their promised video generation tool still hasn’t been released). Then, there was Google with Lumiere (which became Google’s Veo later in the year), OpenAI with Sora, which caused a lot of buzz in February (and was released to the general public...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 19 December