Critterz was planned as a fully AI-generated animated film intended to debut at Cannes, but the schedule slipped after OpenAI shut down its Sora AI video generator. The creators now plan to release the film in the first quarter of next year and are looking for a new AI partner to continue production. The team claims the project demonstrates that AI can accelerate filmmaking by completing work in nine months with about 15 people instead of several years with hundreds of people. Critterz was meant to build on an earlier short made with DALL-E by using Sora. Sora was discontinued shortly after a Disney licensing deal, with reports indicating major financial losses.
"The film, “Critterz,” was intended to debut at this year's Cannes Film Festival, but missed out on that deadline after OpenAI shuttered its Sora AI video generator, Bloomberg reports. With OpenAI's “Toy Story” moment sounding like yet another shuttered dream, the film's creators are now looking for a new AI partner to continue making the film. In an interview with Bloomberg, co-producers Chad Nelson, an OpenAI creative strategist, and James Richardson said that they're now aiming to release “Critterz” in the first quarter of next year."
"“A film like this would have taken three years and maybe 300 people, or four years and 200 people, and we're doing it in nine months with 15 people,” Richardson said at the festival, per Bloomberg. Despite the setbacks, the “Critterz” crew are still claiming that AI can still work filmmaking miracles - if filmmaking was about wrapping up quickly with as few people as possible and nothing else."
"“Critterz” was supposed to build on a short animated film of the same name made with OpenAI's older DALL-E model by using its new Sora video generating tool. But Sora was unexpectedly shut down in March, less than three months after OpenAI signed what was viewed as a landmark licensing deal with Disney, with reports suggesting that it was losing the company millions of dollars per day. Rather than a testament to AI's progress, it underscores the vicis"
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