recently,OpenAI The company recently invited some artists to try out its AI video creation tool SoraUsing Sora, artists have created a series of stunning experimentalShort Film, which fully demonstrates the power and novelty of artificial intelligence.
Different from the chatbot ChatGPT and image generation platform DALL-E of OpenAI that we are familiar with,Sora is not yet available to the publicOn Monday, OpenAI published a post on its blog titled "Sora: First Impressions," showcasing what visual artists, designers, creative directors, and filmmakers have created using Sora.
The videos range from 20 seconds to one and a half minutes in length, and the images are beautiful, but the content is mostly fanciful and surreal. Alex Reben, an artist-in-residence at OpenAI, created a 20-second video showing some creative concepts that could become his sculptures. Creative director Josephine Miller created a video that combines models and translucent colored glass, which is beautiful but elusive.
Of course, not all of the work is so abstract. Perhaps the most entertaining is Air Head, a work by short film production company shy kids. The short film tells the story of a man with a yellow balloon-like head, reminiscent of the sci-fi version of the classic film Red Balloon. Walter Woodman of shy kids said: "Sora can not only generate realistic images, but also create something completely surreal, which is what excites us."
But there are even stranger works. Digital artist Don Allen Stevenson III's work "Beyond Our Reality" is like a distorted version of a National Geographic documentary, showing strange creatures that have never been seen before, giraffe + flamingo (Girafflamingo), flying pigs, eel cats... It's as if a mad scientist spliced different animals into new species.
OpenAI and the artists did not reveal the detailed instructions for creating these short films., nor did they share the process from initial conception to final product. Did the artists simply type in a paragraph describing the scene, style, and level of realism and then hit enter to generate the work, or did they go through a process of repeated iterations to make the balloon-headed man and his shoulders fit together perfectly, or to make the originally weird rabbit armadillo finally cute and charming?
It’s not surprising that OpenAI invites artists to try out Sora. The fields of art, film, and animation creation on which artists rely for their livelihoods may be impacted by Sora’s powerful features. However, most artists see Sora as a tool that can help them quickly create commercial works. As Josephine Miller said in a blog post: “Sora’s ability to create concepts so quickly and with such high quality not only challenges my creative process, but also promotes my storytelling ability. It allows me to express my imagination with fewer technical limitations.”