A.I. DONE GOOD

[The Riveteer]

Just wanted to share these clips. Not A.I. generated but original photo's brought to life. How good is that?




David

 

[Briggsy]

Awesome, now if we could get the subject of a photo.to turn around so we can see the uniform detail at his back that would be flipping marvellous.

Simon

 

[The Riveteer]

Awesome, now if we could get the subject of a photo.to turn around so we can see the uniform detail at his back that would be flipping marvellous.

Simon

I don't know if that would be possible. Considering the range of interpolated movement shown here I suppose you would only have to prompt the programme with the details needed from a print or uniform plate to make it happen.
I'm just amazed by how convincing these are; and the technology is still in it's infancy!

David

 

[Alan]

So, this is a case of AI enhancing the figure maker's ability to create better figures.

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Not much enhancement with Cornet Wilkin of the 11th Hussars. This illustrates the current limitations of using AI to render uniform detail. IMO the dolman is a disaster.

 

[fogie]

Artificial Intelligence..........we seem to be forgetting the operative word
here is 'Artificial' (not real, made up, bogus, simulated}. Besides, what's
AI got to do with this ? Surely it's just an example of CG that the movie
business has been working on for decades.

Sorry.....I'm being a pedantic fogey who is not in awe of this stuff.

Mike

 

[WarhammerAdjacent]

I think in this case it's an AI that's generating the content for the image. I'm with you though, it can be entertaining to watch but is still quite uncanny.

 

[Briggsy]

I have seen it on FB, a few images of a figure then one starts moving around, very Harry Potter!

Simon

 

[The Riveteer]

Wow, I never intended to start an arguement or suggest these videos as reference material for modelling.
I simply find it amazing to see photographs from the past moving - something we never even imagined would be a thing. I've looked at many of these type of videos which do vary in quality quite a bit, but, as I said above - it's still technology in it's infancy -that is no reason in my mind to dismiss it out of hand.

When Pixar was at this stage we were all amazed and now those early films just look primitive and blocky because a lot more progress has been made.

Similar videos to these have surfaced translating old painted portraits and sculpted busts from antiquity of many historical personalities. I can forgive the odd wonky render of a hand or poor animation of flowing hair when I can now see Napoleon or Julius Caesar smiling or laughing. We can never know how accurate such renditions are, but I personally find it brings life to a subject and makes them feel more human and relatable.

David

 

[Colin_Fraser]

Wow, I never intended to start an arguement or suggest these videos as reference material for modelling.
I simply find it amazing to see photographs from the past moving - something we never even imagined would be a thing. I've looked at many of these type of videos which do vary in quality quite a bit, but, as I said above - it's still technology in it's infancy -that is no reason in my mind to dismiss it out of hand.

When Pixar was at this stage we were all amazed and now those early films just look primitive and blocky because a lot more progress has been made.

Similar videos to these have surfaced translating old painted portraits and sculpted busts from antiquity of many historical personalities. I can forgive the odd wonky render of a hand or poor animation of flowing hair when I can now see Napoleon or Julius Caesar smiling or laughing. We can never know how accurate such renditions are, but I personally find it brings life to a subject and makes them feel more human and relatable.

David

I agree with everything you’ve said. I really liked the ancient busts brought to life one I saw. My reaction to the hussar was me being wary of the prospect of AI generated figures. I know we aren’t there yet but I don’t think it will be long before AI is digital sculpting.

 

[Briggsy]

I think it's a scenario that has been played out many times as one generation ages and a younger one embraces technology. The changes and innovations that we have seen from the 50's & 60's are a mirror to those changes witnessed by our parents and theirs before them. I am sure this same conversation will happen with our children and grandchildren. I guess the next innovation might be animatronics in the figure we build, now that would be interesting.

Simon

 

[Nap]

It’s good to see old photographs being brought to life providing it’s correctly done

Must admit not keen on movement at times it’s so deliberate and not natural whatsoever but sure technology will sort that

A interesting discussion here

Nap

 

[WarhammerAdjacent]

I suppose it's a bit like Hollywood in the 50s/60s, I'm thinking about those historical epics that claimed to bring the Roman Empire to life and so on. Very impressive and entertaining but utterly misleading to the audience. I'm a bit uneasy with it in some ways, not least the way it imposes modern behaviour and personalities on historical people, but I suppose there are bigger things to worry about these days.