#virtual-production

#virtual-production

A dusty visual overlay partially obscures crowds of men in the desert, sword-fighting in armor and on horseback. With some wardrobe tweaks, this scene could look like something out of Game of Thrones or Dune. But House of David showrunner Jon Erwin says he didn't have the budget to bring these scenes to life. Instead, he used AI.

The model for film-makers, who are the only people I really care about at the end of the day, is broken and it's not AI that's causing that, Proyas tells the Guardian. It's the industry, it's streaming. He says residuals that film-makers used to rely on between projects are drying up in the streaming era, and the budgets for projects becoming smaller.