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French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]

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419 points gbugniot | 1 comments | 11 Dec 25 13:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.226s | source
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Zealotux ◴[11 Dec 25 14:36 UTC] No.46231897[source]▶
It's a cute ad all but as a French kid I used to see similar things often, we have a good culture of animation. Is "they didn't use AI" really a criteria now?
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jfindper ◴[11 Dec 25 14:41 UTC] No.46231959[source]▶
Advertising that you didn't use AI is definitely a thing now. But this is more likely a jab at the recent McDonalds ad, which did use AI, and which the agency who made the ad vigorously defended the use of AI (hilariously, by bragging about how many hours it took to make that ad).
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1. jsheard ◴[11 Dec 25 15:05 UTC] No.46232280[source]▶
> vigorously defended the use of AI (hilariously, by bragging about how many hours it took to make that ad).

Likewise with the Coca Cola ad, the agency said in their defense that they had to sift through 70,000 video generations to assemble the few dozen shots in the final ad. And after all that sifting they still couldn't get the one element of continuity (the Coke truck) to look consistent from shot to shot, and had to manually composite over all of the Coke logos since the model kept mangling them.