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436 points gbugniot | 3 comments | 11 Dec 25 13:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.621s | source
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ekjhgkejhgk ◴[11 Dec 25 14:05 UTC] No.46231491[source]▶
I remember a time when using computer was not well seen when creating art.

Wasn't it even Tron who didn't qualify for the special effects oscar because they "used computers"?

It's interesting that it's no longer "computer bad", now it's "AI bad".

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wat10000 ◴[11 Dec 25 15:22 UTC] No.46232499[source]▶
It seems fundamentally different to put in a ton of work building 3D models, putting together scenes, etc., versus typing a description into a text box and seeing what pops out.

I may be wrong, but I get the sense that computer art was welcomed by people actually working in the field (did professionals criticize the computer graphics in Star Wars or Wrath of Khan?) and it was mostly the lay public that saw it as somehow not real. The opposite seems to be true for AI "art."

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1. raddan ◴[12 Dec 25 11:53 UTC] No.46243276[source]▶
Did the Wrath of Khan have any CGI? The only scenes I remember are the jarringly bad computer displays at various points on the Enterprise. If I recall correctly, the rest of the movie used traditional VFX: models, compositing, etc. I personally find the battle scenes in that movie-- particularly the nebula scene-- to be beautiful and one of the space battle scenes ever. Despite what others think, I also think that the first Star Trek movie is both a technical and narrative masterpiece, so YMMV.
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2. wat10000 ◴[12 Dec 25 13:12 UTC] No.46243806[source]▶
The Genesis effect sequence was completely CGI.
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3. raddan ◴[12 Dec 25 14:13 UTC] No.46244317[source]▶
Thanks, somehow I forgot about that scene. Pretty great by 1982 standards… a little lame by modern standards, although I could imagine that this is exactly the kind of snazzy but low-res simulation a scientist of the future might generate.