dude... Gack... I'm in tears. 😂🤣😂

Just wanted to mention that the channel CinemaRules mentioned the vfx artists react and the corridor crew name a few times in some of their recent videos, you guys are encouraging other channels to up their game and its just so amazing, cant wait till next ep you guys make work so easy

Thanks Corridor, it's so important to have a channel like yourselves having this conversation, we'll be passing some thought times in the future with the rapid change of technology, and us as workers need to understand we should be fighting for it

@38:25 Sams comment about AI replacing workers at call centers was a huge "Woah" moment for me. Google says "There are 470,766 people employed in the Telemarketing & Call Centers industry in the US as of 2023" That's a lot of people who might be looking for work soon...

the day to get hooked on CCPoscast lol ... great one, guys ;')

Thanks guys!! 👍👍👍👍

@14:10 Sam says exactly what I've been trying to articulate in a lot of conversations about this topic.

There is a video from a NY gotcha operator who created the homie and had the entire collection to view. Well worth a watch.

Gack and Gill went up the hill to fetch a pail of water

we need a whole episode on Homies.

In regard to principle actors. Sure the Will Smiths, Brad Pitts, etc will have it in their contracts etc. But the question I think is more relevant will be for the next gen of stars. Will they have the opportunity to gain enough power to have those sort of contracts. We could have situations young actors sell off their likeness for peanuts and then studios own that digital likeness and Mo-cap actors or animators puppet the 3D model without paying the actor 20 million.

another fun episode.

Dude idk why but this reminded me how people still go watch Elvis / Michael Jackson shows from impersonators and that's the only thing I can think of where bringing back a late actor/actress would be something people watch. Even then it feels weird but it's the closest thing I can think of people caring about

Gack, Geoff, Gene, Gohn / Gean / Gawn.

24:46 I think he meant "snuff" film lol

Still watching, but the issue is less for huge actors and more of an issue for actors who aren't at that level. These actors make a pretty small income comparitively and by introducing a lot of these seemingly small transitions to AI and not compensating them per use of there essence. I think there is a pretty big moral and ethics push to keep physical actors for a majority of filming, because it's art, arts not always practical or efficient and it shouldn't have to be. These tools can be fantastic, but they are just that, tools. And shouldn't be treated like the end game. Regardless Ai is such a small part of this issue and the people getting mad at VFX artist is a huge miss. The corporations that run these companies are the issues. All I gotta say is actors and writers should be able to make a comfortable living doing these things, and I feel the same way about "unskilled" labor, like fastfood workers or retail. I work as an accountant now but before hand fastfood and fine dining was some of the hardest work I've ever done and I used to rebuild engines and do a lot of manual labor. People deserve to live comfortable.

Have you guys peeped Animal World yet? It's directed by Yan Han, and it's even got Michael Douglas, but I'm just curious to see what you think of the VFX, especially the opening train scene!!!!! Slackin....

I would watch a 25 minute React video on The Flash

1:06:15 From here to the end is 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

CorridroCast

didnt expect the lesson about homies 🤣

Nobody mention Giacomo!

I'll have you know my son is also named Gak.

Coming from a country where most digital 3D company/studio are working as outsources, no the income is not double the standard paycheck of said country. It's actually somewhat on the line of below average even after the conversion. Why do you think first party studio throw bulk of their work to outsource? It's literally 5-6 times cheaper than an average US employee, in a sense for them its quite literally free labor. Sure we get a decent paycheck, but for them its nothing.

I am suprised you guys know temu and not ali express, the original and safer version of temu

Gawd, I hate those friggin Temu ads. They're beyond obnoxious!

Name Image and Likeness.

I think the problem is not A.I. in itself but corporations wanting to depend on it to make more money and spend less. We are all aware that this is not real "A.I.", the problem is, corporations don't care about that, they want to make profit with out hiring people. We see already that corporations don't care if they push VFX and others to deliver something ahead of time, like unfinished games or not well animated movies, if they can make a buck even if its not properly done, they are happy with that. With that kind of mind set is not like "ok my career is gone because of this" but you can't turn around to go somewhere else because "A.I." will be taking other jobs, so we are at a point where there won't be jobs to run to anymore because corporations will want to save money if A.I. can do it, so the question is what happens when there's no other jobs but the ones that require years of college degree? And what happens when you finally spent 3 years for a new degree just for corporations to put "A.I." to take over that job? Remember its started with basic jobs like assembly for cars and other stuff, now its with VFX and art, eventually is going to get medical jobs, engineering jobs, law jobs, military, so where do we run to get a job and survive? This "self-learning" machine is learning faster than we can adapt sadly.

Didn't Linus (Linus Tech Tips) buy a ton of PC parts from Wish and tried to build a gaming rig with only stuff he bought from wish to build the cheapest gaming PC. I think he had to go outside wish for some of it but I'm pretty sure he eventually built a Wish pc hah

You forgot the perfect G name.... Gif

It's not largre crowd replacement with CG that SAG is worried about, it's replacing background extras that could close off an extremely important avenue for new actors to join the profession. Framing it as "SAG wants crowds the size of Helms deep to be populated only by their members" is disingenuous and makes light of their worries.

I didn't find any insight from this podcast. These guys care more about efficiency and instant gratification than they do about people.

Man they have zero solidarity with the strikers . Basically saying they don’t understand it 😂

Technically you could just place mannequins in your shot and train the AI to direct them and reshape them into any character you want. It is already possible to get any shot of a person standing somewhere and input it as an image reference as a wizard standing in a field with a castle behind it. Eventually that image will change and come through

I don't think the anger is towards the VFX artists but rather the corporations that make the decisions to rely more heavily on using VFX to replace background actors and using their likenesses without consent having been given. How many of the actors that you love to watch that had to get their start in background work so they could try and finally break into the industry? IDK I think this conversation was missing the bigger problems of greedy corporations who will do everything they can to avoid paying people because they want to hold on tightly to their billions

Spacey was exonorated of all charges.

“In a capitalist leaning society we need to come up with a problem to solve this”. I’m sure that was a mistake but I found it unintentionally funny and ironic.

All but 3-4 humans on a film, can be AI....not unlike orc on LOTRs.

46:52 So thats the interesting part right? Why not? We all need products, we all need fullfillment through meaningful work and be succesful, and we all want affordable products. Rather than it being all about the product, you could be kind to your work force. Give them paid vacation time, paid sick days, paid maternity and paternity leave. You could offer easier work to disabled people; veterans. You could give work to the unemployed elderly or a chance to the inexperienced new comer. You dont need to extract enormous profit - let your products be reasonably priced based on the costs - not based on what people will pay for it. That rat race to make products usually exploits people somewhere along the line.

julia gulia

Riot? or "social gathering". We must watch our words here.

kevin spacey got acquitted no?

Tbf, some of the quality of writing these days seems on par with AI scripts.

39:00 - call center work and outsourcing the work isn't terrible but yes pushing them hard sucks. We just want to have normal careers with progression. It will suck if all the call center work is wiped out.

Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, Dc. etc, etc, were killed by sh!tty writing. They could have been evergreen IPs. You can't replace good writing with CGI and expect to maintain a multi-decade IP. (and I won't even mention politics) Don't get me wrong, I love good CGI, but I also love a well written story.

The brutality of the animation industry or the VFX industry was supposed to be transitional to a state like the current acting industry where there are protections, unions, laws, and reasonable expectations compared to the history of brutality that got them there. What WASNT supposed to happen after the brutality was summary execution and total annihilation of the industry. The brutality was only acceptable for the light at the end of the tunnel, not the pit at the bottom of the hole.

@45:00 I completely agree with sam here. What about everyone else? If you have Tom Cruise in a movie, he gets 100mil. If you model/animate mario for the mario movie you get a 60k salary and it could be argued that mario is more popular than tom cruise. I think vfx artists should be fairly compensated for bringing these famous IPs to life. Also Jake @48:40 thats called socialism lol

Ayyyy first 👆

Didn't Kevin Spacey win both his cases.

Dude. Does Jake have a left-wing tendency.

Fact: nobody here has already finished the video.

45:00 That was the most ignorant thing I've ever heard Sam say. He's normally really good at contextualizing a statement before he says it or at least thinking it through. Because Spotify definitely isn't a great system for the artists 🤣 . Edit: BTW I love me some Sam. So please don't read that as vitriolic👆

Scripted content is in decline. Nobody cares about writers and actors going on strike with the garbage content they create. I'm sorry about the below the line employees though. However its a gig economy, so trade school, coding or a back-up plan is recommended.

The Studios need to break the unions, and just produce in other cities, with non-union labor pools. There's nothing special about LA or 'Hollywood'. They're just lots full of production junk, and some skilled crafts folk. They exist in other cities...or big business can entice its growth

In the eyes of non woke Americans.....they couldn't care less if this drags on for years.....lot of non woke international movies out there.