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‘Godzilla Minus One’ Director Takashi Yamazaki; ‘Here’ VFX Pros Weigh In on AI at VES Awards
'Godzilla Minus One' director Takashi Yamazaki; 'Here' VFX pros talked about AI, backstage at the Visual Effects Society Awards
Backstage, Zemeckis’ longtime VFX supervisor Kevin Baillie was asked about the news that the Motion Picture Academy is exploring a new rule that would make it mandatory to disclosure AI use in Oscar submissions, which Variety first reported last week. He reflected that it could become a rule that “will date itself very quickly,” adding “without a really clear definition, every single project that is Academy Award eligible will be using artificial intelligence of some kind, whether it is in upscaling or color grading all the way through to rotoscoping, to things like what we did on ‘Here.’ which is digital environments and deaging and face replacement.” As the Metaphysic team accepted the award for ‘Here’ on stage, honoree Jo Plaete said, “While our tools may be driven by code, algorithms, machine learning, AI, the soul of the visual effects remains fundamentally artistic.
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