The more magic AI makes, the less magical the world becomes.
24fps * 52 facial 3D marker * 16bit packed delta planar projected offsets (x,y) = 19.968 kbps
And this is done in Unreal games on a potato graphics card all the time:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-link-face/id1495370836
I am sure calling modern heuristics "AI" gets people excited, but it doesn't seem "Magical" when trivial implementations are functionally equivalent. =3
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/metahuman
The artifacts in raster image data is nowhere near what a reasonable model can achieve even at low resolutions. =3
On the other hand AI videos can be easily mistaken for people or hyper realistic physical sculptures.
https://img-9gag-fun.9cache.com/photo/aYQ776w_460svvp9.webm
There's something basic about how light works that traditional computer graphics still fails to grasp. Looking at its productions and comparing it to what AI generates is like looking at output of amateur and an artist. Sure, maybe artist doesn't always draw all 5 fingers but somehow captures the essence of the image in seemingly random arrangement of light and dark strokes, while amateur just tries to do their best but fails in some very significant ways.
One could rely on the media encoder to garble output enough to look more plausible (people on potato devices are used to looking at garbage content.) However, at the end of the day the "uncanny valley" effect takes over every-time even for live action data in a auto-generated asset, as the missing data can't be "Magically" recovered with 100% certainty.
Bye =3
In movies it can be done with enough of manual tweaking by artists and a lot of photographic content around to borrow sense of reality from it.
"Potato" devices by which I assume you mean average phones, currently have better resolutions than PCs had very recently and a lot still do (1080p).
And a photo on 480p still looks more real than anything CGI (not AI).
Your signature is hilarious. I won't comment about the reasons because I don't want this whole thread to get flagged.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
Several 8bit games had their own aesthetic charm, but were at least fun...
Cheers, =3
- Arthur C. Clarke