The key point is that this is a different kind of tool, and you'll still need artists to use them.
Pretty much like power tools for carpenters. The house won't build itself, but the process will be improved.
Pretty much like power tools for carpenters. The house won't build itself, but the process will be improved.
Do they? Show me something truly novel either in terms of art or message created by Hollywood in the last decade. Art and entertainment are risk averse industries - novelty is risk, genre is safe, and within genre you have well defined aesthetics, themes and material from which to derive new iterations on a theme.
The mashups in the blog posted upthread (particularly the Giger/Henson posts[0]) look far more visually striking to me than most modern sci-fi. I want to see that movie based on the look alone, and the look is literally just "what if Dark Crystal, but xenomorphs?"