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James Cameron has revealed how artificial intelligence plays a part in the filmmaking process.
During a visit on the most recent edition of the Boz to the Future podcast, the Avatar director, who joined Stability AI's Board of Directors last year, discussed what should happen if filmmakers want to see large blockbusters.
"The goal was to understand the space, to understand what's on the minds of the developers," he told me.
Cameron said, "What are they targeting? What is their developmental cycle? How many resources are required to construct a new model that performs a certain function, and my objective was to attempt to incorporate it into a VFX workflow."
"And it's not just a hypothetical," said the 70-year-old.
According to the director of Titanic, "If we want to continue to see the kinds of movies that I've always loved & that I like to make and that I will go to see — Dune, Dune: Part Two, or one of my movies or big effects-heavy, CG-heavy movies — we've got to figure out how to cut the cost of that in half."
Cameron stated, "Now that's not about laying off half the staff and at the effects company."
"That's about double their speed to completion on a specific shot, so your cadence and throughput cycle are faster, and artists can go on to do other fun things, and so on, right? That's my concept for it," the filmmaker explained.
In a recent interview, Cameron also stated that generative "AI users should be discouraged from feeding prompts into the software such as in the style of James Cameron" or "in the style of Zack Snyder," stating that these kind of rip-offs "make me a little bit queasy".
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