Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over
Director Neill Blomkamp's new AI-generated short film, 'Nightborne', has received harsh criticism for its poor quality and reliance on generative video tools. The Verge describes the project as a failed proof of concept that highlights the limitations of current AI filmmaking.
On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that’s loosely based on Peter Watts’ 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp’s new AI startup / production company, Barley Studios, and features characters whose voices and faces are modeled after human actors. But every single one of Nightborne’s shots was made with ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 text-to-video generator.
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