Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks

Star Wars Shows the Future of AI Special Effects and It Sucks

Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the visual effects studio that practically invented the field as we know it today, revealed how it thinks it will use generative AI in the future, and that future looks really bad. Much of what we understand today as special effects in movies was born at Industrial ILM, which was built to produce many of the iconic shots in Star Wars: A New Hope. Since 1977, through the ages of miniature models, puppeteering, and …

Star Wars | ILM has made a short film using AI, and er, yeah

Peacock snails! A literal spider monkey! You’ll find these abominations and more in ILM’s AI short film, Star Wars: Field Guide. We’ve seen all kinds of weird and wonderful creatures in the Star Wars galaxy over the past 48 years, but few have made us want to hold up a chair to defend ourselves quite like the unholy fauna in a new short film created by ILM. Called Star Wars: Field Guide, it was made in two weeks according to ILM boss Rob Bredow,…

‘Clone Wars’-Style Animated Series Set After the Original Trilogy Could "Fix" ‘Star Wars’ : Disney Fanatic

For fans of Star Wars, the idea of a Clone Wars-style animated series set during or right after the original trilogy isn’t just a pipe dream—it’s the kind of content that could breathe new life into the franchise. Since Star Wars: The Clone Wars first hit the screen in 2008, it’s become a cornerstone of Star Wars storytelling. The show not only expanded the lore of the prequel trilogy films, but gave audiences a deeper, more intimate look at ico…

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Star Wars Legion Barricade - TO DONE! 🔴⚪

Afternoon I've been #PaintingStarWars with hindsight I should have posted this for 'May the 4th', but I wasn't on the ball. I'd made a comment to Otty about some barricades in the rulebook looking cool with the orange accent colour, which he responded with a comment about them being "a bit too much rebel scum"!But he had 6 unpainted ones and told me if I liked them so much I could paint my own.So this came out of nowhere and I just got the urge.…

These 32 Star Wars Memes Will Be a Fine Addition to My Collection

Sometimes I catch myself daydreaming about what I'd be doing if I lived in that galaxy far, far away. I'd love to say I'd be a Jedi, calm and powerful, slicing through injustice with a lightsaber and a perfectly timed one-liner. Maybe a roguish smuggler, kicking back in the cantina after outrunning Imperial entanglements. But if I'm being honest? I'd probably be that tired local on Tatooine just trying to sell spare droid parts out of a rusted-o…