The evolution of the movie backdrop

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Matte paintings have transformed movies for over a hundred years. AI could be the next step in making them.
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When I look at movies from the ’20s to the ’90s, I’m blown away by the worlds that filmmakers were able to create with their visuals. From Mary Poppins to Ben-Hur to Star Wars, they truly made things that people had never seen before - all with little to no help from computers.
How did they pull off such striking and novel visuals? Well, often, it was just with a paintbrush and some glass.
With a technique called matte painting, skilled artists would paint a scene and black out a portion of the frame for live-action photography. The actors would be filmed on footage that blacked out the painted backdrop, and then filmmakers would combine the two exposures to make one seamless scene.
This, of course, all changed once computers entered the industry. By the late 1990s, matte paintings were almost entirely digital. Just a few decades later and now they’re almost all made in 3D.
With the development of AI, a new evolution might be on the horizon. Tune in to Vox’s latest to find out how AI might soon change the matte painting industry - again.
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@Alexmaystudio

Freelance retoucher here. Photoshop a.i. has hit the workflows HARD. I used to be massively in demand. But this year I’ve only done 3 days of work. And in those days I’ve used Ai to do things that should’ve taken me 10x longer to do, leading to booking cancellations because I’ve done the job in no time. So yeah, bit scared.

@izikavazo

"Who owns the data(/art) this was trained on?" is the question that is vitally important to answer.

@hippopotamusbosch

AI is good, sponsored by Microsoft. 🤨

@KitBash3D

Thanks for having us on! 🖌🎨

@NiallWade

it is getting depressing seeing genuinely good content from Vox slowly be overshadowed by sponsored content like this- just another drop in the bucket of a seemingly well-meaning story about change in tech that is conveniently backed by Microsoft to get us used to "AI" when that technology itself is unethical and needs to be changed.

@mr.shyryhud1659

“And they’re kind of sick.”

@SWinxyTheCat

I'm very disappointed that Vox chose to go with a Microsoft sponsorship for this video--if not a series of videos--on AI, when Microsoft is making their Copilot suite key to the company. I worry about editorial judgement being compromised with this sponsorship. Even though Vox states "Microsoft has no editorial influence on our videos," financial compensation can still absolutely affect the reporting.

@k-ace-x3732

I hate that AI affected the one thing I thought it wouldn’t. Seeing people create using techniques is really cool but Ai just makes everything feel bland.

@dustyoldhat

The generative fill of the Death Star landing dock is a perfect example of one of the current issues with AI. That entry portal is supposed to be large wide aperture open all the way across. The generative fill AI is interpreting the folded up wing of the Emperor’s Shuttle to be extended and the fill ends up creating an opening that looks like a sliding window in a suburban tract home 😂

@GiacomodellaSvezia

The remark that using AI is cheaper must have been made without the awareness of the true costs, not just of producing films but, more generally speaking, our whole way of living. AI needs a lot of electrical power for training computers and eventually having them produce these high quality graphics. Most of it is produced with fossil fuels. Building and periodically replacing all those computers takes often irreplaceable natural resources and leaves a lot of waste.

@juliegolick

Step 1: Create an AI tool with ethically-sourced training data

@beanl

Me (a professional matte painter):

@CoffeeMugTwentyFive

So, Ai as inspiration and not a final render, is what I'm taking from this.

@declannicol3743

nah i think i'll stick with art done by humans thanks

@mikopiko

What does "presented by Microsoft" exactly mean here? Sponsored content?

@chobies5383

Was Microsoft getting a Super Bowl ad not enough?

@greekvvedge

Please tech strivers, we like our soul. Let us keep it.

@oiaeyu

I hope AI replaces all the workers at Vox ❤ Then lets see how great and inevitable AI is and how Vox will justify it displacing people cause "uh, the market"