Visionary or simply optimistic? In a long interview granted on September 26 in Variety, the winning director of the Oscar, James Cameron, a connoisseur of new technologies, spoke of his relationship with special effects and artificial intelligence. Not afraid of the future, the filmmaker of Titanic AND Avatar Dear that “generative AI will never replace the human behind.”
“We absolutely need our artists. It is the artists who maintain control of the process, right?” He insists that he revolutionized 3D and the VFX, and that has already acquired actions in a society specialized in AI.
The challenge for him is to convey “the culture of creativity and precision” to his classmates and technical teams, much more expert than him at this level. To train them, therefore.
“Creative culture”
“I do not want a single technical culture, but a creative culture, specifies. When I speak with sequence supervisors, animators, illuminators, I ask them: What does it matter more in this plan and why? What is its narrative function? What do we say with that? Do not think about the plans, you think about the flow.
Employed intimately with the technical teams, James Cameron, therefore, spends his days, in the study, to “quantify the infinitely small.” He details: “I look at a VFX plan and say: ‘Ok, you see the way his foot crushes to this fern and the way he folds, I do not believe it. I send me again. And that never stops. Every detail, every thread of grass, each flame, every interaction of light … we are in permanent microob observation.”
Tilly Norwood’s case
The comments that were recorded by the specialized newspaper a few days before the first actress created completely by AI, Tilly Norwood, raised the controversy and the indignant Hollywood earlier this week. Part of the profession fears being replaced by this new technology.
Already, in 2023, many actors had risen to the niche and had paralyzed Hollywood for great strikes, partly for the same reason.
While you wait to decide this thorny question, James Cameron will be released in theaters on December 17, the third opus of the saga, Avatar: fire and ashwhose first two trailers revealed in recent months again promise great and epic. And special technology special effects.
Source: BFM TV
