‘Without storyboards, I feel like I’m in Grand Central station in my underwear’: film fights back against AI
Storyboards are used to work out how a film will look, and as a blueprint to communicate a director’s vision to cast and crew, and are one of the first steps in bringing a script off the page.
Key points
- That is in the future, but the real-world impact of AI is already directly affecting jobs behind the scenes, as Hollywood’s biggest film-makers begin to adopt the technology.
- As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions.
- Storyboard artists are the illustrators who draw the panels of images with notes and diagrams that map out scenes before they are filmed.
They sketch out what could be lost A film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by reincarnated screen icons and uncanny humanoids.
Additional details
- The current canary in the coalmine however is the storyboard artist, whose work gen AI appears to have directly in its sights.
- Now they appear on the verge of replacement by programmes that use text prompts to create illustrations instead.
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