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First All-Artificial Feature Film Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-takes-some-work dept.

Hugh "Nomad" Hancock writes "Machinima.com have just released the DVD version of Killer Robot, award-winning filmmaker Peter Rasmussen's buddy movie about two mining robots who set out to protect their "meat-sack" masters from a master mining robot gone insane. The twist here is not only that it's Machinima, made in 3D Game Studio, but that even the actor's voices are computer-generated using programs like Festival, making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie."

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  1. All-artificial? by Compuser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Wouldn't that be a movie written, directed,
    post-produced, and distributed by bots?

    1. Re:All-artificial? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Wouldn't that be a movie written, directed, post-produced, and distributed by bots?

      No, that would be a movie written, directed, post-produced, and distributed by robots who were created by other robots.

  2. Nope by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful
    making this possibly the world's first all-artificial movie."
    One hates to be pedantic (well, ok, maybe not ;-) but there have been a bunch of animated silent films made over the years...
  3. What about the textures? by bravehamster · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Seriously, did the textures they use start off as photos of real life objects? Then this isn't an all-artificial movie. The first all-artificial movie will be made by an AI that has no access to any outside materials. Everything until then is just a matter of degree of human involvement.

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  4. nope by Docrates · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm sorry, but as much as I like the geek factor in this, I like to see people in my movies. I admit that Toy Story and Monsters Inc. were really good movies, but if eventually all movies were computer generated they'd lose me as a fan.

    There's magic in acting: controling your every emotion to become someone you're not, and then making other people believe it. That's art man. What they're trying to do sounds to me like trying to replace a Picasso with a fractal image. No magic.

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  5. Re:What about pr0n? by dustmote · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You know, this just can't be that far off. Sex and war drive technology, and all that. Give them time, and I'm sure the adult industry will find a way to drive the costs of this down to levels where it's reasonable for everyone. After all, look what they did for cosmetic surgery. The question is, will people be interested in this for its own sake, or will it have to wait until things reach the point where it's indistinguishable from the real thing? I'm guessing from the preponderance of cartoon porn on the internet that it's just around the corner.

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  6. Qualifiers by pdiguy · · Score: 5, Insightful
    This happens all the time. Given enough qualifiers, any movie is the "first" of its kind.

    "This is the first computer animated movie"
    "This is the first computer animated movie with photoreal humans"
    "This is the first computer animated movie rendered with global illumination"
    "This is the first computer animated movie rendered with global illumination, on a render farm of Linux servers"
    "This is the first computer animated movie where the main character is green"
    "This is the first computer animated movie where the main character is green and one of the characters is a cat"

    It gets silly after a while. At some point you have to ask "is the movie any good?"

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