Is AI the future of film making?

[Aristeidis Tyropolis]

Yet you have this excellent piece right here shot on film of course:

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by Kateline Arizmendi, who is a member here, big fan of her "Succession" work.

The look is so perfectly taking advantage of film...

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Daniel, thank goodness that the flaws are obvious if you look more closely. I wonder if the models will ever become truly photographic. I hope not.

[Guest Shawn C. Smith]

Such a dumb topic.

No. It's not. Especially if you believe in integrity.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

AI is now used to make Maximilian Schafroth sound like the late Hans Clarin, the original speaker of the cartoon character „Pumuckl“:

https://www.tagesschau.de/kultur/pumuckl-synchronsprecher-ki-100.html

(Simply use AI to translate the text into English.)

[Daniel D. Teoli Jr.]

Here...

This is AI. I'm not sure to what degree, but here is my take on it. He types up a script, and the computer takes a sample of his voice and does the rest from the typewritten script. This person is fake. It is a very younger version of this guy.

An Example of an AI Video on YouTube D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : D.D.Teoli Jr. A.C. : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

This is how I have concluded this. I've seen videos from other creators where words are mispronounced the same was that GPS mispronounces street names. I know this is some degree of AI because it says on that page it contains synthetic content.

Here is what he really looks like.

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You let me know how this is all done. I'm not up to date on AI. Just my guess about how creators are using it.

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[Guest Shawn C. Smith]

Holy crap. People will just go ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON AND ON with their replies. 

Fnck AI.

And fnck you if you use it.

End of story.

[Joerg Polzfusz]

As you don’t want people to answer, here’s a reply from ChatGPT:

Here’s a detailed look at where artificial intelligence (AI) is headed in filmmaking — covering major trends, opportunities, challenges, and what the future might hold.

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✅ Key Trends & Opportunities

1. Pre-production & concept/visualisation acceleration

   • AI tools are enabling the rapid generation of storyboards, scene visualisations, lighting & camera setups from text prompts. (Focal)

   • Example: Generative models can produce plausible scene frames (“sunset-lit rooftop fight in rainy Tokyo”) that previously would have taken days. (Focal)

   • This lowers the barrier to entry for independent filmmakers and boosts creativity in smaller productions. (Dataconomy)

2. Production & post-production workflow efficiency

   • VFX, rotoscoping, motion capture clean-up, background removal and other tedious tasks are increasingly done by AI. (Reelmind)

   • Scheduling, budgeting, and other logistic/production-management tasks are also being enhanced by AI-driven tools. (Pressmaverick -)

   • AI can assist in casting decisions, talent matching, and even help evaluate scripts or storylines for market appeal. (Pressmaverick -)

3. Democratisation of filmmaking

   • Because costs and time-barriers drop, more creators (including those without large budgets or studio backing) can tell stories. (Dataconomy)

   • New kinds of content and emerging voices may flourish (diverse storytellers, niche genres) because AI makes production more accessible. (Dataconomy)

4. Creative experimentation & new storytelling forms

   • AI enables hybrid forms: storylines that adapt dynamically, interactive narratives, mixing live action + AI-generated content. (arXiv)

   • Visual styles can be manipulated more easily; film could play with surreal or dream-like sequences that were previously too costly. (arXiv)

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⚠️ Challenges, Risks & Ethical Considerations

1. Creative authenticity & emotional depth

   • AI may increasingly produce technically “good” content, but critics ask whether it carries the same emotional resonance or originality that human creators bring. (Dataconomy)

   • As one Redditor put it:

     “Great for filmmaking, bad for filmmakers.” (Reddit)

2. Job displacement & role shifts

   • Some film-industry roles (e.g., background clean-up, basic VFX tasks) may shrink or change. (Dataconomy)

   • However, new roles are emerging (prompt-engineer, AI-workflow supervisor) and creative/strategic skills become more important.

3. Copyright, ownership, and authenticity issues

   • Who owns content when it's AI-generated? What about rights for likenesses, voices, music? These questions are still evolving. (Dataconomy)

   • Flood of generative content may lead to “generic” output or oversaturated market which makes distinctivestorytelling more important. (Dataconomy)

4. Quality control & consistency challenges

   • While AI tools are powerful, issues remain: maintaining consistent character design, motion continuity in long sequences, scale & runtime for feature films. (arXiv)

   • As one comment noted:

     “Once consistency is locked in… you can make nearly every movie by editing scenes together.” (Reddit)

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🔮 What the Future Might Look Like (Next 5-10 Years)

Here are plausible scenarios and emerging directions:

• Hybrid creation pipelines: Human creators + AI tools working together. For example, a director writes a rough outline, AI generates visuals and alternate takes, human editor and actors refine and imbue emotion.

• Personalised or adaptive film experiences: Films that adapt to viewer preference, mood, or device. Imagine versions of the same story tweaked for different audiences.

• New genres and formats: Because cost drops, more niche stories, micro-budget films, experimental formats will emerge. AI may make “episodic interactive” or “viewer-driven” story formats more viable.

• Lower budgets, shorter timelines: Large-scale productions could shrink timelines and budgets, enabling faster iteration. Some phases (previs, VFX, editing) become much faster.

• Ethics & curation become premium: As volume increases, which films stand out will be more about human taste, craft, authenticity, value of human-driven storytelling. Festivals, curators, trusted creators will matter more.

• New business/monetisation models: With AI lowering barrier, more creators globally; streaming platforms may use AI for targeted content; rights/licensing of AI-generated vs human-generated become business issues.

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🎬 Summary

The future of AI in filmmaking is not about replacing human creators entirely, but rather reshaping the tools and workflows of filmmaking. Human vision, creativity, emotional resonance and storytelling will still matter deeply. But the mechanics — how scenes are planned, how VFX are done, how budgets are managed — will increasingly leverage AI.

In effect:

• Good news: More stories, more voices, more experimentation.

• Caveats: Must guard for authenticity, creative value, ethical/practical implications.

• Big win: Filmmakers who learn to integrate AI thoughtfully stand to amplify their vision, not lose it.

If you like, I can pull up case-studies (films already using AI), upcoming tools to watch, and skills filmmakers will need going forward. Would you like that?

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[Aapo Lettinen]

AI content creation is excellent for lazy posers who pretend to be real filmmakers 😄

hoarde as much money as possible with the minimum amount of effort. Make others do all the work, then just copy it and claim it yours. Excellent. True democratization for sure. 

With digital cameras people at least were creative and wanted to work hard to get a great end result. Nowadays it is just "use the cheapest piece-of-sh*t method possible to grab the money, make them eat the AI slop you call beef and the moment you get the cash just run and let the audience figure out the diarrhea later"

People were able to make fine low budget stuff before any of this "democratization" nonsense. The "democratization" does not mean making stuff more accessible, it just means lowering the bar so low that anything is made passable and the internet is flooded with sub par unwatchable slop which was not worth making let alone watching it at all

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

You guys are going to love this:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQe-OE5kj9q/

Edited November 5 by Karim D. Ghantous
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[Joerg Polzfusz]

An almost entirely AI-generated animated movie is in the works, and it's aiming to debut at Cannes next year:
https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/animation-movies/an-almost-entirely-ai-generated-animated-movie-is-in-the-works-and-its-aiming-to-debut-at-cannes-next-year/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The end is near! Repent from your sins!

Edited November 5 by Joerg Polzfusz

[Guest Shawn C. Smith]

Close this topic. Who cares.

It's been beatin' into the absolute dog sh!t that it is.

[Jon O'Brien]

15 hours ago, Aapo Lettinen said:

AI content creation is excellent for lazy posers 

Laziness is endemic in the arts lately. In the fields I work in I see a lot of lazy colleagues. They are often toxic and unpleasant, too. They will try to enforce a status quo of mediocrity. In two words: bugger 'em. Keep working hard and put them to shame. They deserve it.

[Aapo Lettinen]

12 hours ago, Joerg Polzfusz said:

An almost entirely AI-generated animated movie is in the works, and it's aiming to debut at Cannes next year:
https://www.gamesradar.com/entertainment/animation-movies/an-almost-entirely-ai-generated-animated-movie-is-in-the-works-and-its-aiming-to-debut-at-cannes-next-year/?utm_source=chatgpt.com

The end is near! Repent from your sins!

I don't understand your motivation to be so exited about AI stuff though. Looks like you are not making movies for living or as a hobby, would imagine finding them easily. Why the excitement? If not wanting to make even iphone movies for it being "too much work" then the best AI tools would still end up to zero movies made. Writing prompts would still be 'work' if wanting some kind of passable end result so there is always too much to do to get the "movie" out. If the AI is inventing the idea and writing the prompts too, then it would be credited as the "filmmaker" not you 😅

[Aapo Lettinen]

Some comic artist had interesting meme lately. They pointed out that AI "art" generation is one another form of fascism in our current societies... that's because artists are the mortal enemy of fascist regimes pointing out their faults and ridiculing them. So replacing real artists with "art generation buttons" flooding the field with dull and uninteresting and "politically corrected" material it is convenient and easy to silence the oppression.

It is well known that tech bros who develop the AI tools hate artists because they think coding and algorithms are the only "real art form" but the AI "art" boom has much more political and sinister motives than just Altman and bros wanting to replace people who they despise

[Tyler Purcell]

12 minutes ago, Aapo Lettinen said:

It is well known that tech bros who develop the AI tools hate artists because they think coding and algorithms are the only "real art form" but the AI "art" boom has much more political and sinister motives than just Altman and bros wanting to replace people who they despise

Yep, they're nearly all untalented hacks. Think Musk has any skills outside of being an A hole and having money? 

The good news is that "server based" AI will soon go away, that's the most evil part of all this. Once it crashes and bursts the bubble, the left over LLM's will be useful for the rest of us for helping with workflow and daily tasks. That to me, is the only real future for AI unless there is a massive shift in the technology, which I don't see happening. They're going after true artificial intelligence whilst handing us some crap tools that are only interesting for the novelty aspects. The cost to actually do all of this will bankrupt most of the big tech companies like nVidia and Open AI. 

[Guest Shawn C. Smith]

Again...

People keep replying and replying and replying and replying, with essays for us to read.

Geezus...

The Internet really sucks. That's the issue. And people wanting their voices...ahem, excuse me: TEXT, to be heard.

This website and forum is the wackness.

[Mark Dunn]

1 hour ago, Shawn C. Smith said:

Again...

People keep replying and replying and replying and replying, with essays for us to read.

Geezus...

The Internet really sucks. That's the issue. And people wanting their voices...ahem, excuse me: TEXT, to be heard.

This website and forum is the wackness.

It's what happens here.

You're quite new to the forum- if you take a look at some of the posters' stats, you'll see some with thousands of posts over many years. Many of them are respected industry professionals.

Edited November 6 by Mark Dunn

[Karim D. Ghantous]

14 hours ago, Shawn C. Smith said:

Again...

People keep replying and replying and replying and replying, with essays for us to read.

Geezus...

The Internet really sucks. That's the issue. And people wanting their voices...ahem, excuse me: TEXT, to be heard.

This website and forum is the wackness.

Participation in this thread is not compulsory. If you have arguments to make, you are encouraged to do so.

[Guest Shawn C. Smith]

19 hours ago, Karim D. Ghantous said:

Participation in this thread is not compulsory. If you have arguments to make, you are encouraged to do so.

Tis too starved an argument for my sword, dear sir.

And this forum can Fnck off.

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Also, do not ever put someone else's scripts or other IP through an AI chatbot for a summary, or for any reason.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQuDOvNkQVf/?igsh=MWJ2NHBzamszZzU4ZA==

[Aapo Lettinen]

7 hours ago, Shawn C. Smith said:

Tis too starved an argument for my sword, dear sir.

And this forum can Fnck off.

You got offended because people continued the conversation after you stated your "final comments" and had nothing to contribute anymore. By your logic, YOU are the ultimate moderator here and define who is allowed to speak and which kinf of concersation is acceptable.

Maybe you should start your own forum where you could close a thread immediately after you have written your own points in your first message on that thread to avoid anyone else stealing your thunder and make you the 'ultimate specialist' on every field as you got the last word on everything😝

[Jon O'Brien]

On 11/8/2025 at 9:39 AM, Shawn C. Smith said:

Tis too starved an argument for my sword, dear sir.

I do like your style, though, sir. Stick around. You show talent.

[Max Field]

AI is the future of bad filmmaking and bad productions... Unfortunately we are outnumbered by the bad....