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Was anyone else confused by that Donald Glover segment. It felt like we were going to get a short film, and we got 3-5 clips?

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And those clips mostly look like generic stock footage, not something specific that a director might want to pre-vis.

This is what movie pre-vis is actually like, it doesn't need to be pretty, it needs to be precise:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMMeHPGV5VE

Also it is either very good at generating living people or they need to put more though into saying "Note: All videos on this page were generated by Veo and have not been modified"

That "footage has not been modified" statement is probably to get ahead of any speculation that it was "cleaned up" in post, after it turned out that the Sora demo of the balloon headed man had fairly extensive manual VFX applied afterwards to fix continuity errors and other artifacts.

Wait, where did you hear this? I would assume something like this would have made somewhat of a splash.

The studio was pretty up front about it, they released a making-of video one day after debuting the short which made it clear they used VFX to fix Soras errors in post, but OpenAI neglected to mention that in their own copy so it flew under the radar for a while.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFzXwBZgB88

https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/actually-using-sora/

> While all the imagery was generated in SORA, the balloon still required a lot of post-work. In addition to isolating the balloon so it could be re-coloured, it would sometimes have a face on Sonny, as if his face was drawn on with a marker, and this would be removed in AfterEffects. similar other artifacts were often removed.

Exactly!

"Hey guys big artist says this is fine so we're good"

It felt AI-generated.

I wish it were AI Donald Glover talking and the "Apple twist" at the end was that the entire 3 minute segment was a prompt for "Donald Glover talking about how Awesome Gemini Models are in a California vineyard"

Yeah that wasn't obvious what they were trying to show. Demis said feature films will be released in a while

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