This doesn't obsolete motion capture? It doesn't seem to even be full body for one, seems to be for fixed camera and limited to head/face. Page title is more accurate: "Introducing Act-One - a new way to generate expressive character performances".
j45 253 days ago [-]
The AI hype men (and women) hyperbole is too much, and are poor lyricists.
These types of phrases should be filterable.
Imagine changing forever
This changes everything
Nothing will ever be the same
Everything has changed
Everything’s disrupted
Gone are the days of how it used to be
Nothing will be the same after you see this
Just tacky hooks to keep people reading.
doctorpangloss 256 days ago [-]
Maybe video models can’t do all the problems. Can they do all the problems that are valuable to narrative media creators? What about business?
Odds seem high. “Solve all the problems” can mean “solve all the valuable problems.”
Runway’s biggest obstacle is not scientific. They have to convince VCs to not index on all AI startups - a historically winning strategy in finance - and instead focus capital on the two leaders in any race, at any cost, because 5x $200m investments will fail by being not enough money instead of too much. Runway needs billions of dollars to do what they are doing!
momojo 256 days ago [-]
This wows me as a lay person, but can anyone who's worked in mo-cap tell why or why not this should impress me?
MrSkelter 255 days ago [-]
I make feature films with 9 figure budgets.
Motion capture is animation. It’s taking the input and deciding what to include, what to ignore, what to emphasize and what to fabricate.
Blindly applying inputs without a creative person in the middle making decisions will result in garbage.
For example. You don’t want background or non speaking characters distracting from the focus of a scene, but you can’t have the static either. How they react creates an emotional impression and therefore needs to be considered.
These tools are just tools. It’s akin to saying LLMs have replaced authors. Total rubbish.
Tangent: on this webpage, their choice to have so many videos autoplay saturates my USB 3 dock, and breaks audio sync on the video that I actually want to play. I think that's a first for me.
The product looks pretty great though.
oac 256 days ago [-]
This doesn't make motion capture obsolete: 1) Mocap can be applied to rigged characters and 2) mocap can animate full-body rigs not just facial expressions.
ChrisArchitect 256 days ago [-]
Title: Introducing Act-One - a new way to generate expressive character performances
Rendered at 18:06:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
These types of phrases should be filterable.
Imagine changing forever
This changes everything
Nothing will ever be the same
Everything has changed
Everything’s disrupted
Gone are the days of how it used to be
Nothing will be the same after you see this
Just tacky hooks to keep people reading.
Odds seem high. “Solve all the problems” can mean “solve all the valuable problems.”
Runway’s biggest obstacle is not scientific. They have to convince VCs to not index on all AI startups - a historically winning strategy in finance - and instead focus capital on the two leaders in any race, at any cost, because 5x $200m investments will fail by being not enough money instead of too much. Runway needs billions of dollars to do what they are doing!
Motion capture is animation. It’s taking the input and deciding what to include, what to ignore, what to emphasize and what to fabricate.
Blindly applying inputs without a creative person in the middle making decisions will result in garbage.
For example. You don’t want background or non speaking characters distracting from the focus of a scene, but you can’t have the static either. How they react creates an emotional impression and therefore needs to be considered.
These tools are just tools. It’s akin to saying LLMs have replaced authors. Total rubbish.
The product looks pretty great though.