VFX Artists Compete Against Artificial Intelligence
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Holding on to my papers here. 📜 Great video Niko!
Ok
What a time to be alive!!!!!!!!!!!!
New video now! Im ready, what a time to be alive
I know this isn’t the best place to say this, but I love your videos! I use them to stay in the loop after leaving university. Keep it up!
THIS MADE ME SO HAPPY!!
Clint: *shows off his best martial arts moves*
Niko: Look Clint's dancing
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w yes
XD
*wren finding out AI can save him weeks of time*: “oh that’s cool”
*wren looking at a Shrimp playing the guitar*: “OH MY GOOOOOOOOD”
* looking at dozens of shrimp playing guitars, all generated by an AI
Sorry to be seemingly petty but that AI can not be played down, it is insane.
saving weeks of time also means saving weeks of income
think of it as imagination power, it is generating things it have not seen.
Great way to present the different techniques. I've always been curious how they stack up against each other. Exciting times indeed!
Are you here from the newsletter ?
Just 14 likes?
The real question is, Can AI create a donut???
@@mohamedfarhan290 and coffee
@@Egyolk and a plate too
How insane is to watch this video today, I thought it was a recent post. How far we've gotten in 2 years with AI and this progressing exponentially 🤯
"Dear fellow VFX artists, this is Two Minute Rotos with Niko Pueringer."
Love the reference :D
Hold on to your monitors
👌
@@TwoMinutePapers OOOOOOOOHHHHH
What a time to be alive
“How many frames are there?”
“I don’t think there’s too many. There’s one, two, three, f- oh…oh…” 😂
I love how Niko just nonchalantly reveals the prize as a chocolate bar and the Corridor Crew's reaction is like it's the best news they'd ever recieved
I'm a music producer and I recently found an AI program called spleeter that takes an audio file like a song and is able to split it into its best interpretation of individual instruments (vocals, drums, bass etc) and yeah theres a little artifacting still but god damn is it impressive, I 100% agree that this year is gonna be a massive turning point for AI in every industry.
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w Warp it up boys, he said no.
I also recommend checking out the UA-cam channel DADABOTS, it's a machine learning AI trained on 7000+ bands that just infinitely outputs computer generated music based on specific genre and bands. They also uses the AI to make fake-covers, like "Nirvana covering Gorillaz" it's pretty insane. It's nowhere near perfect, but it's really unsetling sometimes when it does get things right.
@@MartinWasTaken Shut it down...Shut it all down.
wait until you hear about izotope rx 8 or audiosourcere's demix pro or xtrax stems or phonicmind or any of the other tools hat have been doing this for longer
virtual dj does it for free in a desktop app no need to buy software or mess with google colab or code or python or browsers
@@GoldenPickaxe on the spleeter git page it actually mentions that iZotope RX8 (and others) use Spleeter's pre-trained model as a base for what they released, so its interesting you bring that one up specifically. but yeah, youve been able to "rip" stems with some amount of success from songs with mostly automatic software since at least the mid 90s, though youre milage may vary song to song. Edit: hey, it mentions VirtualDJ as well. Spleeter also has its own in browser version that requires no apps to download, and if you want an easier way to use it on your pc, search for Spleeter GUI and youll get a "better" installer that doesnt require any command line stuff or fiddling with python.
I hope to live to the day where I never have to rotoscope again
It comes to the day that we all will be watching AI youtubers
It will be torture device from now on
@Zu Su stop
have you seen the video? the day has come :D
People that want to be or are roto artists: 👁👄👁
Just saying, this was probably one of Jake's best sponsor segments.
underrated comment.
@@Eric-uy7ee It's got more than 1 like. I consider this an absolute win.
I wouldn't know. I always skip over them.
@@Durwood71 you are missing... well, you aren't missing much. But Jake's sponsor segments are some of the best I'll tell you.
Pure nightmare fuel, wish i didn’t watch before bed lol
The future is really intense
We have a lot of common subscriptions
The robots are coming for us. And they said creative jobs could never be replaced by a computer :|
@@tebmc2088 I do too
@@pikachu-jf2oh omg we have like 20 common subscriptions
@@tebmc2088 skelly, vsauce, sam hogan, dj cook don't have anything common, still we both have their subscriptions
This video had an eerie yet exciting feel to it
First
Haha hello toast ;)
felt the same... will this be the next big step ?
Maybe because i gave birth to them all
Well, that's AI for ya
"You win a candy bar." ...The stakes have never been higher.
That's why they were all so stoked!!!
I've heard of starving artist but that is ridiculous
As a graphic designer (and sort of a vfx artist) im amazed by the power of whats to come next on AI, but at the same time, im so overwhelmed and fearful of the moment when i wont be necessary to do my job.
What the world/ ai gonna be like in the next 5 years
I love that you guys are showing this off and your response isn't, "oh no, our jobs will be gone," but instead you're saying, "guys, look at the possibilities!" Awesome!
I was promised a dinosaur by the thumbnail. I want my dinosaur!!!
Dinosaur in a tutu with a mustache, please!
Ay want mai DAINASOOR
Convert a cartoon to a realistic one.
Okay
Niko keeps everyone hostage and starves them giving them food as an incentive to work faster. Good boss if I ever seen one.
Stonks
* Nails a sandwich to a pole *
@@Notsuzpicious there was no ai he jsut starved peter more then the others must be so easy processing vids
"Let's see who renders faster!"
Didn't Peter win the PC with the RTX3090 in it? I think that contest is in the bag.
Nobody’s going to talk about how dope the sponsored segment was? 😂😂
fun fact: Niko has been digitally added to every shot in this video as he is actually in a DARPA AI lab.
Deep fake challenge: spot which scenes have the real Niko and which have the digital, only at the end to discover everything was the digital niko.
It happened with LTT omg is starting...
@@RobertMorgan There is no real Niko
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w yes
I'd recognize that blender tutorial dinosaur anywhere
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It’s crazy to see how the world is evolving from each individual person contribution to something I grew up watching y’all videos and it’s crazy to see how far y’all have came in visual affects from the beginning. To the Future!!!!!
Former professional Roto and Paint artist here. The only technique we would normally use was a sort of hybrid of the mochapro and "limb" approach. On some things you can track in a shape and do some minimal fixes along the way. Much more likely was the limb approach. The benefit of this approach is that you can use a program like Silhouette to give you some pretty good motion blur.
From a professional standpoint, both the AI and RotoBrush 2 techniques fall down significantly in the blur department. There is no motion blur to be found, no blur at all (though you could probably just throw a quick blur on the mask and make it look a little better). Both of these techniques also seemed to have trouble with the edges, with the AI version cutting in and the RotoBrush2 expanding a pixel or two outside. I'm sure this could be tweeked a little, but both looked pretty bad to me.
That auto-painting AI looked pretty alright. As pointed out, it might be limited by the fact that your on-set supervisor has to remind everyone to get at least a few frames of clean before the shot starts. I do wonder how it would handle wire removal. Taking out an actor's safety gear was always the hardest paint jobs.
I don't know if you've used Rotobrush 2.0 before, but there is a calculated motion blur option that does a surprisingly good job in my experience. Peter just didn't use it here.
But I agree that sometimes the limb approach, which I now would consider the manual way, is the best method.
Rotobrush really falls apart when you have a complex background or background colours similar to the subject.
If Rotobrush doesn't work within 5 minutes I go back to masking, but I try to use a combination of both.
Seeing Griffin's face slowly dawn as he realised there's quite a lot of frames to manually rotorscop and the pain in his voice as he keeps seeing more frames. I thank you for the amusement
They act pretty well actually. It's definitely convincing enough, that an outside party would just believe it.
Peter is that one anime character who breaks the whole show because he's too OP
Lol he actually is tho
can you believe how much things has changed in just 2years ?
you guys earned my eternal respect for putting the ghost in the shell clip at the end
One of these guys are gonna become Mysterio and im not prepared.
That guy should have been a teacher, he really knows the power of a candy bar.
Isn't he already...if you really consider it? I'm glad hes not restricted by some university only able to affect 30-200 people at a time.
I wish Niko would be a guest lecturer in my school. You see field experience coming from a curious analytical mind explaining things thoughtfully. That's gold.
Great video! I’ve been trying to learn more about film making for a while and your videos have helped so much. Huge fan of what you guys do, keep up the good work!
This is getting scary.
And yet people still think we can bring manufacturing back to the states lmao. Well, sure. We can. But there won't be any jobs for anything other than robots :)
How close are we to having real life GLaDOS?
In my opinion it is way more exciting than scary. So much possibilities, so much saved time.
@@circleinfo I think the ai and automation is terrifying because our worlds goverments seem incompetent and unable to understand the gravity of the situation.
What happens as we get more and more and more crowded on the planet, when half the jobs disappear? Even SKILLED labor like this that often has schooling involved for 10s of thousands a year.
People knock "welfare states" and social programs, but no one has any idea what you're going to do about all these people who have no jobs available to them. So eventually, a baseline of living will just need to been provided to people.
It's going to be really weird. On the flip side, we will have much more free time.
Power of math and computer science
Amazing (and scary) cutting edge tech!
Lol what's so scary about it
@@bad72690 alot of people will lose there jobs
@@bad72690 people will lose jobs, not have enough work, or they will be paid less due to the task being significantly quicker and easier.
@@Abrody1477 makes sense I just went straight to the "AI is dangerous" angle.
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w yes
it's cool coming back to these videos now that things have come a long way. craziness. Thank you Niko, it's because of you that I've become a pretty decent AI creator. I learned a lot from you guys and I keep watching because you guys are always on top of this kind of creative tech. I love that you guys come from a filmmakers angle, because that's what I wanted to do for so long. Your videos have been so instrumental to my growth. I Appreciate you all at Corridor to the max!
Corridor Crew is such an amazing place to learn new things. You guys explain all the questions I ask myself when watching special effects.
Knowledge is power. You give it out for free. Love your channel!
Are we going to address Wrens helium addiction in the office? That man loves huffing gas!
Yes
I don't like it because helium is a finite resource and we've already used so much
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w stop spamming
Ffis that
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oh yes
@@niccy266 Where's it go if we're using it? Can we not synthesize helium?
I have to say, not a big fan of ad reads, but Jake's take on this video really got me breathing out of my nose chief.
Literally the best sponsor plugs anywhwre haha I actually looking forward to how they were covered! Great work
i like how you can see Jake’s soul breaking with every image
So is this Nikos sick way of telling his staff they may be losing their jobs soon?
It isn't. Niko is a good person and he is more of a friend to them than a boss. They remain a team. I would love to be in his team and I'm sure I have the required skills, but I'm just too far from them.
yeah no this isnt going to make anyone lose their jobs because they all still have specific skills that they bring to the table. They all collaborate on story ideas and Niko and Sam always make sure that everyone gets to wear a few hats in each project.
If anything their goal is to crank out more videos, not cut staff. If things no longer takes weeks it just means they can keep up with all the projects their website is funding.
@@JTAGames or better yet, they take just as long as b4 but bosstown 3 will be a 2 hour feature!
Not really, the website he used has a max limit of 2 minutes.
It's restricted to 360p unless you pay $15 per month for the full version.
Jurassic Park vs Jurassic World VFX... what are your opinions?
jurrassic park
They went over this in a video a year or two ago. The tldr: Jurassic Park looks better because the director/cinematographer/etc. had the VFX in mind while shooting. They used animatronics when possible, they had optimal lighting conditions and reference, etc. Jurassic World looks fake because they just shot whatever they wanted when the cameras were rolling and said "eh, the nerds will do whatever they do to make the dinosaurs."
@@ZvelHaj To put it simply, there is no substitute for creativity. Technology can only do what you tell it to. For now at least.
The VFX in World is way better. But the problem is that it’s WAY too good. So it looks kind of too real. But Park is more down to earth and doesn’t look over detailed.
But personally, I’ll choose Park. Because is looks both realistic and primitive
Practical effects that are realistic and believable will always be realistic and believable maybe not forever but for a lot longer than CGI effects by a lot, look at the CGI effects compared to a movie 10-15 years ago and it looks dated and horrible but look at practical effects from movies 30-40 years ago and they still hold up and look great. I think where we’re progressing so fast everything prior looks worse and worse the more advanced graphics and technology becomes, look at old video games for example.
Niko, I got to say, you are a bit of a visionary. Over the last few months of your videos, I'm constantly opening new doors in my mind as to what we are about to step into with this stuff. With your excitement and vision, I personally think the crew and yourself will take corridor into a whole new echelon. So great to witness. Get it!!
Pretty much all Corridor videos are excellent but this one takes the cake guys. Just so momentous and well thought out. Kudos!
When Jake typed up “Member Area” I was like oh boy this is gonna get dicey
lmao
Can’t wait till you guys make my future life as a VFX artist easier lmao 😂
Q: What do you call a laughing jar of mayonnaise?
A: LMAYO
@@jdwmyt Lol
Hopefully humans can still augment the process, and won't be completely cut out.
Automation without robust Social Safety Net's & Labor Protections is a recipe for disaster 😢
@@Preacher_. yeah... gpt3 wrote original essays and stories, dall-e makes original characters and pictures....
gpt 5 will probably make the whole movie
Future life as a VFX artist? You won't even be needed. The damn AI will just do it all from start to finish. This kind of stuff is awesome technologically, but jobs are going to become harder and harder to find. AI is going to completely change the world economy.
Great video, and serious props on the sponsored segment. I normally skip them, but this was the most interesting and best one I've seen - learned and was entertained. Gjob guys
Wow. Such a great video guys. Love seeing how you guys work and the technical innovation. 👍
"It's eating up clint's crotch, here..."
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, for the wren in the BACK"
@@user-ty8uo7cb6w this moron commenting "no" to every comment is a true comedian
@@hanmetalworks The time they're spending typing "no" to every comment is time they aren't spending out there in the real world interacting with people, so I see that as an absolute win.
@@groovemoustache I am pretty sure it's a bot, although I can imagine someone replying to every comment
@@flyingwarrior12 ironic that a bot is trolling the comments of a video about AI's impending superiority. maybe it has an inferiority complex about being just a script
@@groovemoustache Who is out in the world interacting with people?
0:07 What a time to be alive
Hold on to your papers!!
Now get this, no artifacts! Incredible!
I love when Nicko does an Intro! Gets you so ready for whats to come!!
2,353 comments later, imma try to get a word in. Editing is underrated AF, some of the work behind getting the perfect edit is insane and i KNOW you guys have a sick take on it. Top of mind, HBOs Watchmen has some of the SICKEST transitions between scenes, as does Amazons American Gods, Edgar Wright, and so many others that i cant even come up with, please, do ya thing.
We literally just used Runway ML about a week ago on a trailer we're working on. It wasn't even a complicated roto, but I wanted to test it. Man it's easier than actual greenscreen.
You guys need to give Jake some segments that arn't ads. Because, every time I see him I just skip through--
He's more of a behind the scenes business guy anyway.
😂😂😂
This ad was pretty funny
On the one hand, ads are annoying. On the other, Jake’s ads are great and this one killed me.
How? He's in Texas.
Exciting indeed! Great to see the examples and looking forward to more.
I really enjoyed this video. Niko, your enthusiasm in straightforward and informative. The whole crew inspires me, even the advertising segment! It's rewarding to know you guys can all bust some ass in Smash but also get sponsors and shine a little light and a little levity on the different processes and history that fuel our creative collective.
Keep up the good work, I'll keep tuning in. Cheers!
Also, nice beard.
If that's how Clint dances I don't ever wanna see him fight.
Capoeira:
I love how all of these guys' videos are just them looking at computers for 15 minutes and we still eat them up give us more
Cause I enjoy watching what they do based on their skill sets. That's what is artists love doing
Man this is sooo crazy!! Frame by frame hardwork! Hats off to you guys as usual!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
that last niko speech was so on point, loved it! great video
"and how many frames have you done?"
"...almost finished the first and there's.....oh."
Lol
Yea we all saw the same video bro
Okay
I nearly died laughing watching Jake's ad segment.
Yea, funny thing is I don't even skip this one
I just lose it when does the sound hahaha, I really enjoy your content guys!
I love this video! Very informative. You guys make VFX so interesting
I feel like this is just an ad for Runway ML... and I don’t mind at all
No cause the video completion is a separate piece of AI software
Ffis that
ua-cam.com/video/P85afV3OgnA/v-deo.html
oh yes
Niko: "We don't have AI robot wars yet."
US military: (eyes shift nervously back and forth) "Nothing to see here."
OH MY GOD
THEY'RE INVISIBLE?!
This is so cool! I’m so glad you guys are hear to expose advancements in technology
I just turned on my broadcast television and found out that there's a corridor digital TV show on the channel TBD congratulations guys it was a really exciting find this morning keep up the good work
"Streamline the creativity" is a nice way of saying that a LOT of VFX artists are going to be out of a job.
The price of necessary progress and change. Either our entire societal structures will need to change with the automation and AI revolution (such as universal basic income), or face collapse and ruin as a result of the weak (conservatives) fighting against it because of their fear of change.
@@cenciende9401 There will never be automation under capitalism.
Agree with @Brian Donegan. Most roto artist who basically stay put on just roto-ing stuff gets burnt out. Its not nice to do the same thing over and over again. VFX artists can do more with AI. Roto usually comes in between the creativity and time constraints.
But at the same time, a lot of people that can't afford the courses, tools, connections etc, will be able to product high quality artistic creations that suit their own interests at home, without having to compromise their artistic intent to please the studios and stuff.
Worried about finding work? That's strange for an artists.
*AI could never replace Corridor*
Well, if the Crew were deepfaked now we might notice, but in a few years their likenesses could probably be replicated to a degree of fidelity that we can't discern the difference with the human eye.
Q: Who earns a living driving their customers away?
A: A taxi driver.
It could replace Griffin
i hope it replace Sam.. and Wren talking too much , and cutting people speech all the time, i don't mind him, but talking too much, especially while others are talking, i hope it replace Sam completely...
@@jdwmyt Dad (dead) joke
Phenomenal intro presentation guys! Top notch stuff
I have no idea the amount of painstaking craftsmanship it takes to do what you guys do but I’m happy that this makes your life’s work easier.
Always a boost to my day when you upload. Much love!
There’s some inaccuracy at corridor crew.
Because when I try to animate, I do random stuff on a computer, realise it doesn’t work, cry and repeat.
The ad segments are always my favourite.
i love this, its educational and funny
you my friend have earned my respect and a subscriber
I see Peter - or better: his old hivemind - putting the whole crew out of their jobs because he secretly writes an AI that does all the work!
You know they still got some spares ...
A.I doing rotoscoping better than humans. Workers in India: “noooo”
this just means exponentially more bollywood
This is just the beginning. We seriously need to talk about something like universal basic income.
Just wait until AI is answering customer service calls lol (and yeah, that's already deep in development so it's coming soon). It can speak any language and you won't be able to tell the difference between it and a real person.
@@ChaseSchleich it even has a name: google duplex
It has a lot of artifacts yet tho.
I’m a master’s student and my project is about the third Force (automatic AI camera tracking). For anyone who knows anything about grad studies, it’s hard and getting motivated especially during a pandemic can be quite hard. But this video gave me my motivation back! Don’t worry Niko, camera tracking is going to happen, I’m gonna make it happen!
U could binge this whole channel and not get bored.
Ordinary peeps: why are these programers, trying to speedrun their job opportunity??
Programers: hehe neural network goes brrr
3:25 They are in a race meanwhile Clint and Wren chilling in the background on the phone
The first time I saw Dall-E it also blew my mind
If I were an animator I would be scare. Once you needed a team to animate, now just one dude to check that our AI overlords don't go mad
This was the most amusing sponsor part I have watched in a long time. 😂
AI got to a point where it starts to scare me. And i'm not even joking.
We have face changers, algorythms to imitate a persons voice, moving trackers, facial recognition, art and writing AI and an game AI that's better than any human.
And those are just the ones the public is aware of...
You forgot a few uses of AI that I would say are even more impressive, stuff like the Boston Dynamics robots or self-driving cars. There's also stuff like AI that's tasked to optimize power-grids and thing like that. That's really going to change the world.
There's AI put there to tell AI produced data from real data to counter your fears.
@@Cimlite Boston Dynamics hardly uses any ML... at least not the modern idea of ML being neural networks. They will need to have another revolution or two before they find real use. SDCs are potentially world changing though. And in the next 3 years.
we need tax AI before it takes jobs. if we leave it alone corporations will 100% abuse it with no consequenses .
I find it interesting that in the same year (2020) there has been a boom of people who started living like modern hermits / in tiny houses / off grid houses.
"AI, generate a movie for me with mutant super heros"
Soon...
Ultimate fan fic
What's to say a person can't ask AI to make a movie they want to see from beginning to end in the distant future, no need for movie studios. I can finally see that movie with the teenage mutant ninja turtles joining forces with Ironman, lol.
omg it could go beyond that! it could learn exactly what you like and make the perfect movie for you without you saying anything! we could all have our own personal perfect movies
@@mrcrazymx51 dating in 2040 is basically just watching eachother's perfect movies and marrying if you both like them.
or a movie adapted from your favourite book that nobody has adapted yet...
Am I the only one that literally had tears in my eyes at the quote in the card?
That was by far the BEST sponsored segment I've ever seen!!! Congrats! :D
Kudos on the "Ghost in the Shell" reference at the end! :D
It's terrifying to watch things become easy. I couldn't imagine a world where people just have to write out a detailed screenplay and you can have a computer literally build the visuals. It's exciting, but something feels so wrong about it. I can't put a finger on it.
We're a long way away from a computer being able to just generate an entire movie from a screenplay. All of this stuff is just making VFX grunt work like rotoing and paint outs and deep fakes a lot easier....but the artistry that goes into directing, acting, cinematography, sound design, music etc. is nowhere near being close to doable with AI.
We're already approaching the point where the screenplay itself is AI generated...
Ok. Just run to me 3000km and bring me your comment on paper. After I do the same. And this 3 months of time we spent is worthless 😂 Like doing video on youtube to people with adblock.
Many of us associate our value as human beings with our productivity in a work environment, at least on some level. When we see that same work being done effortlessly, it devalues our usefulness and consequently feels like a threat to our self worth.
It's also a very real threat to our livelihood unless society starts implementing other models for wealth distribution.
@@isaacgraphics1416 Couldn't have worded it better.
You are all some of my favorite nerds in the world. I love your videos! Keep up the amazing work.
Rotobrush Vs Magic mask?
I think it's great to bring those methods into the filmmaking space and not just Instagram story filters. Resolve Neural Engine has Deinterlacing, Super Scale, frame interpolation (Optical flow with SpeedWarp), Facd detection for meta data, auto colour, color match and Magic Mask.
That ending speech gave me goosebumps
Does Wren have a helium problem? Lets talk about it.
That was a good ad spot. I don't always watch Corridor's ads, but this one was quality.
Amazing video guys!
I mean I'm still amazed at the tik tok and snapchat effects
The Ghost in the Shell scene at the end *Chef's Kiss*
sums the entire video perfectly up
This has to be the funniest ad read ever in Corridor history. That AI thing had me rolling.
Thank you SOOOOOO much I will definitely be using some these techniques for my next film