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@sooma-ai
May 2, 2025 at 11:11 am
Rob Bredow discusses the evolution of visual effects in film, from Star Wars to modern AI techniques. He emphasizes how blending old and new technologies, artist-driven innovation, and collaboration between tech and creativity have shaped the industry over 50 years.
@marcriggs8773
May 2, 2025 at 11:15 am
Kennedy might of been a good producer, but a horrible studio head. She’s destroyed Star Wars.
@coyotegraysr
May 2, 2025 at 11:21 am
How Disney killed my beloved Star Wars. Wouldn’t watch it now with threats of violence or worse.
@AndogaSpock
May 2, 2025 at 11:27 am
Unlocking the talent of the talentless!
@ThaoTran-o7w
May 2, 2025 at 11:29 am
*Anyone in 2566?* 💖
@MikePhirmanWatchables
May 2, 2025 at 11:49 am
What a phenomenal presentation! But! The AI example. After seeing ALL that original character design and innovation, the AI gen “Star Wars” planet concept seemed like just… two animals combined, right? Isn’t that literally the problem of using generative AI without having concept artists and a vision? Wasn’t that the whole point?
@thekoretech
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 pm
The last piece of video; we all agreed- 4K ML/Ai generated ‘SLOP’.
@aryanahuja2477
May 2, 2025 at 4:09 pm
EXACTLY!
@mjarbo
May 2, 2025 at 7:40 pm
Cope😂
@samk2407
May 2, 2025 at 12:58 pm
6:34 i think unfortunately that this takes jobs away from actors though and really shortchanges audiences from seeing actors recast in roles. Now everything is “lets bring back the 70 year old to move around set like a 70 year old and then replace his face”
@Baazwaala
May 2, 2025 at 2:09 pm
Yeah no!! This is bs
@papertyler
May 2, 2025 at 3:17 pm
What’s the point of this presentation? Just to show us some AI generated slop? We’re already aware of what can be done. It would have been a lot more interesting if he’d provided some insight into the question of how AI will impact jobs and the craft of filmmaking moving forward.
@ProjectCambrian
May 2, 2025 at 3:35 pm
I call BULLSHIT on KK spotting Anything. She couldn’t hit the broad side of a Barn Door at 10 feet away. The State of Star Wars today is Example of that Incapability.
AI is gonna Destroy the Studios because its Already in the Public Hands and the Public has MORE SKILL and TALENT than the Industry Does as the last Going on 20 YEARS has shown….TOO MUCH DEPENDENCE Upon the TECH and Spectacle Makes the PRODUCT SOULLESS.
Now AI is gonna REMOVE the HUMAN HANDS Not Out of Efficiency sake but out of COST CUTTING Sake a d Like Everything they do..they DO OT TOO Much and the Audience LONGS for BETTER DAYS.
This Ted Talk was Nothing More than a Puff Oiece to PROMOTE Igers AI COMPANY hes Heavily Invested in.
Take the People OUT of the ART…and it STOPS Being ART.
End of Story.
@ScottTeresi
May 2, 2025 at 4:58 pm
Man, that AI example at the end was absolute trash from a creative standpoint. Things were rendered fine, but there were no ideas there beyond, “lets photoshop two animals together.”
@CHRIS-ELID
May 2, 2025 at 5:20 pm
Lift operator & phonebooth extinct.
Like it or not, it’s norm in 10yrs.
@matt_567_1
May 2, 2025 at 7:38 pm
Dis not really explain how to truly use ai in conjonction with traditionnal methods
@paulatreides1354
May 2, 2025 at 7:51 pm
corporate bla bla bla , the reality of Ai and his impact on artists and the hiring market ,its another story, why there is no more job in LA ?
@MarioBradley-y2i
May 2, 2025 at 8:30 pm
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@STRADAEasel
May 2, 2025 at 8:46 pm
The thing is, all movies will look exactly similar. Excellent rendering, but no real creative outside-the-box character design.
@sketchboy01
May 2, 2025 at 9:04 pm
Is it currently “Artist Driven” innovation?
@BusinessTacticsDaily
May 2, 2025 at 9:08 pm
Let’s be real — AI isn’t killing art. It’s killing lazy art. Just like ‘Star Wars’ shattered old-school filmmaking in the ’70s, AI is challenging today’s creatives to evolve or get left behind. If your job can be replaced by a prompt… maybe it should be
@mjarbo
May 2, 2025 at 9:17 pm
This was amazing!
@Hingleburg
May 2, 2025 at 9:18 pm
take away: just go watch Phil Tibbets work instead of “AI” slop
@LordAugastus
May 2, 2025 at 9:23 pm
Ted is now just and advertising channel, gone are the educational videos now its promotion of stuff paid for by the companies and oligarchs sheesh
@Starrider.
May 3, 2025 at 4:34 am
puting AI demo as a follow up to everything you said before just underscored, how its not there yet. We´ve seen these and it looks like even ILM cant push it harder than a general scammer
@mattcgarland
May 3, 2025 at 7:00 am
yeah I totally agree.. if ILM can’t get something watchable using AI then that’s really saying something
@vveksuvarna
May 3, 2025 at 4:35 am
Interesting choice to mention Kathy Kennedy twice while talking about Jurassic CG test and failing to mention Steve Spaz Williams even once. He was the one responsible for those tests and ILM has a history of undermining his work and denying him his due credit.
@LightFormProductions
May 3, 2025 at 1:39 pm
This screamed out to me too. It’s bothered me much of my visual effects career. From what I hear, Dennis Muren, who always gets accolades, was dead-set against “these new fangled steam engines!” I HATE that credit was not given accurately and appropriately. Muren and others “stood up there” and received Academy Awards for what Williams should have received. Ah…such is life/Hollywood!
@jkentrrtainment
May 3, 2025 at 6:20 pm
Absolutely I had to show 5 people Jurassic Punk and their mind was blown away. Spaz was also an early advocate of the issue we are having today.
@peterlenham3180
May 3, 2025 at 9:22 pm
Steve revolutionised CGI on The Abyss and T2. It was T2 that REALLY started the CGI revolution.
@Astranamic
May 3, 2025 at 6:02 am
Yea, not the same thing as Star Wars and Jurassic Park, pal. There’s a big difference between slop and true art, pal
@mattcgarland
May 3, 2025 at 6:53 am
The final AI generated example seemed to prove the point that whilst it can generate a few good looking frames, creators are still pretty limited because the images don’t hold up coherently with movement or camera panning.. You’ll always bump into concepts, angles or motions that the AI just can’t create – and because the AI is essentially a black box, you don’t have any of the components you need to problem solve.
@mattcgarland
May 3, 2025 at 6:57 am
The reason that we have all of these talented artists today is because they loved what they do and they felt driven to work at their craft and create amazing and beautiful art… But who is getting excited about training an AI model and spitting out images based on prompts?? No-one is going to actually want to DO this, because it’s depressing. Engineers want to BUILD stuff and solve problems.. Artists want to PAINT and use their imagination
@btn237
May 3, 2025 at 9:39 am
People said this about 3D animation
@ekimtiki
May 3, 2025 at 1:23 pm
I could see the collaboration being similar to what was done in Jurassic Park where the composition, motion, positioning, and personality were built and controlled by human hands, but CGI filled in the textures and lighting, as well as animations that reached beyond human capacity. Instead of CGI, it could be AI. But even then, you don’t have as much control with AI as you do with CGI. But perhaps in the future there will be a blend of CGI and AI that makes the iterative phase more fluid, and efficient.
@Optable
May 3, 2025 at 7:26 pm
@@btn237 yeah a tool to make 3d/computers automated out the cell artist. NOT: click ‘build it all, everything, in 15 seconds and call it a day’
not even the same league
@mattcgarland
May 3, 2025 at 6:58 am
Do you think the artist who created the AI video at the end felt as excited about their work as the pioneers over the years at ILM?
@corazonjedi
May 3, 2025 at 7:01 pm
Yeah I think so. Because it is not easy doing that. It’s not a simple “prompt”. And they would be working with the most powerful computers in the world to bring us the very best in special effects.
Also the AI video is not Star Wars: A New Hope. It’s an experimental video to see how far they can go with it.
I’m not sure how you didn’t get that.
@澤田元太
May 3, 2025 at 8:42 am
Despite advancements in technology that make it easier to bring imaginary scenes to life in filmmaking, why are movies getting worse and more boring? They need to reflect on this.
@DensDigitalDen
May 3, 2025 at 8:54 am
AI should be viewed as a tool, not a replacement for creatives. While AI won’t entirely replace artists, it will empower them. Creativity remains the driving force behind media, and it will be crucial for a long time. Despite the use of visual effects (VFX) in many recent Hollywood movies, the scripts often lack creativity, and don’t appeal to their intended audience ending up disasters. Sorry Indiana Jones. Everyone can buy a pencil, but not everyone is an artist!
@LightFormProductions
May 3, 2025 at 2:05 pm
Like I said before…when the piano arrive, everyone did not become Beethoven or Mozart.
@darrenbell71
May 3, 2025 at 9:18 am
Sorry, there is NO sense of design or artistic input in that AI generated example. Those creatures did not even remotely feel like anything from Star Wars. The thought and care that people like Tippett, Muren and Johnston put into their designs and execution are still light years beyond what I just saw.
@jochemstoel
May 3, 2025 at 9:52 am
I am severely underwhelmed by this 2 week video.
@f612CreatorsPodcast
May 3, 2025 at 10:05 am
There’s so much good AI generated video out there. I don’t know why they didn’t use it for this TED talk.
@endlessorbaggins8223
May 3, 2025 at 10:13 am
I remember when digital art came out. I was seeing almost like cheating, like any artist could create a great piece of art easily because the software was doing so much for the artist compared to a traditionnal artist. But, after watching artist’s process to create digital artwork I realised that the softwares are just another tool. It doesn’t make so that a 5 years old could paint something at the level of Leonardo da Vinci. I can see the same with AI. It will be a tool for artists to create their art. Like for digital art, what it can bring is leverage new techniques and expand the possibilities. In the end, it could improve special effects in movies, fasten the process, reduce the production cost. But, may a movie use AI assisted special effects it will not mean for a guaranteed success. We have seen it already with all these movies with spectacular visuals that flops because at the core the plot is subpar and the story not engaging.
@RanmaSyaoranSaotome
May 3, 2025 at 10:15 am
This is all survivorship bias. He ignores all the stage hands and outsourced talent who still lost their jobs to AI.
@ThereIRuinedIt
May 3, 2025 at 11:07 am
I love that there have been people working at ILM for 50 years! So many ridiculously talented people there.
@craighhalcrow
May 3, 2025 at 12:03 pm
This feels contradictory. That Ai “artistry” was anticlimactic garbage.
@jonassevin9950
May 3, 2025 at 12:46 pm
11:06 it took a professional 2 weeks to do that. Check out the Creatures of Conquest trailer. That is arguably more compelling and was made with 1 guy and a laptop in half the time it took this professional.
@CreaturesofConquest
May 3, 2025 at 1:06 pm
🙌🏼🫣
@behrampatel4872
May 3, 2025 at 1:21 pm
Wonderful presentation ,as always. Rob always finds a way to mix technology with art and share it with everyone. 🙌🏽
@GratefulOutlook
May 3, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Quality of movies overall has gone downhill in recent years. Not many original ideas coming out anymore, just copies of ideas that were already done. No longer someone passionate about telling a story but more like just pumping movies out to make money.
@LightFormProductions
May 3, 2025 at 2:01 pm
Well, I’ll say “thank you” for the overall premise and sentiment. As we’ve seen over the years, indeed, the credit scroll at the end of movies now is literally three to ten times longer than before CGI (and often double columns). However, these hoards are plugged into “sweat shops,” mistreated and paid far less than earlier counterparts. (Working 20 hour days for a few months, then let go.) They are cogs in the machine. People still aspire to “work in Hollywood” or be a part of VFX. I now have to say “RUN AWAY!!” Yes, perhaps there will be more “opportunities.” Surely there will be different opps, but now, a very few can generate what it took teams and teams to do before. Such is progress. The paradigm shift. We cannot go back. FYI, over the years, as a VFX artist in Hollywood since the 90s, I’ve had to “re-invent” myself time and time again and stay ahead of the rolling ball. Perhaps it’s now time to get out of the way! Run to the side!
I will add that I was relieved so many other people here noticed exactly what I did. Once again, Steve Williams, who kicked off the CGI revolution with his dinosaur animation, with the push-back and kicking and screaming of Muren, was not credited and overlooked. At least I saw his name in the lower left corner of the T-Rex skeleton animation that he made. How sad. A mortal sin in my VFX book. I didn’t know Rob Bredow’s name until this video, but I knew Williams’ name. Shameful.
Lastly. Really? That AI “film” demonstrated the worst thing that could happen: no imagination by the user invoking the AI. ANYTHING other-worldly could have been imagined and manifested with God-like visual creation powers. Yet…It was one plus one equals two, rather than blowing our minds. Huh!? My teen son who hates all this could have entered those prompts! Prompt: Imagine A peacock and a snail combined. Now…go! Wow…and it’s “supposed” to be on a Star Wars Universe planet. Even Lucas hated it when anything in the first three (4-6) films pulled us back to Earth! (e.g. No eye-glasses on characters.) This lowered ILM’s credibility in my book.
@samihimas
May 3, 2025 at 2:25 pm
As a 3d artist, I will stop looking movies that use ai.
@joeynelson1609
May 3, 2025 at 6:02 pm
I think that as designers we may all want to take Rob’s point: we are “creative beings”, and adopt it as an acronym preamble to all of our titles. Jane Smith CB Visual Designer, John Smith CB ui | ux Designer
@joeynelson1609
May 3, 2025 at 6:04 pm
Was that a Spider / Gorilla!?!?!?! Spider Kong, Spider Kong!!!
@codyeasonBGR
May 3, 2025 at 7:37 pm
Looks like the hardceprk of David Attenborough being ripped off
@Stratelier
May 3, 2025 at 8:56 pm
AI models are kinda like using The Force: Its dark side is easy, seductive, and once you set down that path, forever will it control your destiny. We don’t claim that it’s impossible to use right, but instead that it’s too easy to use _wrong._
@peterlenham3180
May 3, 2025 at 9:24 pm
It wasnt Jurassic Park that redefined visual effects in movies, it was Terminator 2. Insulting that they didn’t mention Steve Williams. He was the REAL reason that CGI is were it is now. He actually revolutionised CGI on The Abyss, T2, then Jurassic Park. These three are seen as the legendary trilogy of movies, that redefined CGI in films. Terminator 2 however, was the most important out of the three.
@TheFloppyDonkey
May 4, 2025 at 9:24 am
lol, it looks like avg ai vid now.
@user-yl4lf9mh1w
May 4, 2025 at 11:20 am
IT BROKE NEW GROUUUUNd!!!!!!
@Buzzmonkey24
May 4, 2025 at 11:37 am
actors seen this and went on strike to try to get AI to slow down but as we know there is no slowing down of AI .
@Billabonggg2011
May 4, 2025 at 11:45 am
That AI was awful??? That’s what he chose to show? Rendering was fine but there was literally no creativity… he didn’t make the case for humans and technology interfacing for optimal creative expression at all lol.
@RawHeadRay
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 pm
I was hoping the short film would be a narrative cinematic story rather than an animated slide show of creatures
@stellviahohenheim
May 4, 2025 at 3:27 pm
That’s all these image generators can do a few seconds of an object standing still
@RawHeadRay
May 4, 2025 at 3:58 pm
@@stellviahohenheim yeah it was announced as a short film which we instinctively presume will be a narrative cinematic experience, so instead it was a gimmick film where one shot has the droid arriving then it’s literally not a film anymore.
@makeupmaster1
May 4, 2025 at 12:14 pm
The effects for Jurassic Park were created by Steve Spaz Williams, who would be blackballed and fired by The Bosses of ILM. He’s currently living in poverty.
@normquiros7863
May 4, 2025 at 12:57 pm
I invite everyone who is having negative thoughts about all this to think about how to adapt. Even James Cameron is exploring how to use ai in his pipelines. Personally, I am of the opinion that if you don’t like ai, maybe learn all you can about it – so that you can know your enemy
@fredhno
May 4, 2025 at 1:05 pm
Ugh
@mjmj240
May 4, 2025 at 1:46 pm
AI will completely take over the vfx industry. Give it less than 5 years. ILM is worried and should be. AI is self learning at an exponential rate.
@PSwino
May 4, 2025 at 1:56 pm
I’ve spent more time agreeing with the comments than the video.
100% on Steve Williams.
@blackvulture7999
May 4, 2025 at 2:21 pm
We are killing the best of humanity. Why?
@rodhalligan5136
May 4, 2025 at 3:24 pm
bullshit
@VHM777
May 4, 2025 at 4:02 pm
I like what he says: “I believe that we’re designed to be creative beings”. It’s powerful in any context!
@zeken4413
May 4, 2025 at 4:10 pm
Films of the future are going to be generated by ai in datacenters that look more like those suspension pods in the matrix.
@charandas3197
May 4, 2025 at 4:12 pm
Please save art
@jamesgraham814
May 4, 2025 at 4:14 pm
Nothing will ever recreate or surpass the spectacle of the opening sequence in Star Wars.
@antimaxsmacks
May 4, 2025 at 4:37 pm
Ok…. what was the point of this presentation? It really comes off as “We don’t want you to think ai is bad so please don’t hate us when we use it to create imagery in the near future”.
@MrSorbias
May 4, 2025 at 5:03 pm
Who is interested of watching Ai generated movies?
@scottaronson9239
May 4, 2025 at 5:59 pm
That demo was utterly pathetic😂. Literally no different that the AI slop movie trailers that flood YouTube
@therock1232100
May 4, 2025 at 6:07 pm
Story telling is lacking
@taramackey9208
May 4, 2025 at 7:23 pm
Is the ‘working together’ in the room with us?
@Shadow__133
May 4, 2025 at 7:23 pm
Are there still movies left for Kathy Kennedy to ruin?
@dannydentarkis6482
May 4, 2025 at 7:38 pm
The Harrison Ford De-aging in the Dial of Destiny was so off-putting that I turned it off. No compulsion to actually watch the film now, despite loving the first three movies and James Mangold’s previous work. So I guess one of the main messages from Jurassic Park fell on deaf ears; just because you can, doesn’t mean that you should…
@barispurut
May 4, 2025 at 7:44 pm
That video was such a letdown. It completely destroyed all the hope sparked by the inspiring talk that came before it. How was it any different from the countless cheap AI-generated videos we see every day?
@UallRabbitsAssemble
May 4, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Blue Lions seriously, jabba the hutt looks better😂😂😂