the article talked about the link between the creation of modern movies and video games something I was kind of aware of and doesn't at all surprise me. The link as existed since the begging of the video game genre and the use of animation and CGI in movies, lots of people like story heavy games and everyone likes movies in one form or another so its natural that the creative people of the world can use videos game as a sort of testing ground for using new techniques with animation and CGI effects. An example of this was when minecraft used a generic model for their computer generated environments and James Cameron barrowed the technique to create the computer generated world of Pandora in his block buster Avatar. Another great thing video games are starting to bring to film is motion capture, this allows people to simply animate people acting with little effort, but this technique was difficult to use of large scale thing. this was changed when lord of the ring used simple AI to replace would be actors making to as the article put it medieval total war. Lastly is the use of extras, is a film maker uses a game engine to make the film they can create extras using AI and create densely populated areas easy. I like that some one is finally giving games the credit they deserve and treating them as art rather than forms of mindless entertainment.
final question "will we be working with AI?"
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