Sometimes, the posters for movies are just as amazing, or even more interesting, than the actual movie. You can tell, assuming it was not made with AI, that there was effort, style, and painstaking detail put into a movie poster. For instance, the poster for the upcoming Bad Guys sequel:
Were there any actual movie thumbnails made by AI (except for that one experimental robot movie thing)?
I know recently that ScreenCulture, a long-running pop culture YouTube channel, has been extensively uploading AI-generated movie trailers, much to the chagrin of its subscribers. I would not be surprised if movie studios began to use AI for making movie posters, too.
Well so far “AI-for-posters” still seems to be a rather fringe movement, but with the AI bubble still alive who knows…
Elemental used some neural network-y nonsense for the effects and it seemed fundamental enough to the artstyle it might have wound up on the posters (obviously posed by artists, 90% rendered by VFX peoples’ skills, and touched up after by real artists, but somewhere in there yk), but I can’t get a straight answer because the company shoved it under the rug, so I don’t even know if it was generative AI or a neural network being used as a over the top shader effect, or how much it was used, or anything. If anyone has actual data on that movie I’d love to know,but all I know was it was a flop and every screamed “AI” at it if they talked about it at all, but honestly it might not have even been anything??? I dunno. Either way, it flopped as it deserved, but I wish it got more interesting attention.
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AI movies already got some attention… Much like all other sorts of AI stuff.
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