A viral two-minute short titled « Air Head, » created in part by using OpenAI’s video-generating Sora tool, required a good bit human editing.
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As the saying goes: never trust a tech demo.
Back in February, ChatGPT creator OpenAI revealed Sora, its new text-to-video AI. Though Sora still isn’t yet available for public use, the announcement was a success — the product sent Silicon Valley buzzing, and several purportedly Sora-generated clips even went fairly viral.
But at least one of those viral Sora clips, a roughly two-minute video titled « Air Head » — which was so impressive that we blogged about it at the time — had a bit more human mitigation than OpenAI initially suggested.
As Patrick Cederberg, a creative director at Shy Kids, the production studio that actually created the clip, recently told FXGuide, « Air Head » required quite a bit of post-production FX magic to achieve the impressive final project — an important revelation, considering that OpenAI presented it without any disclaimer that extra editing was required.
Remember that ‘air head’ video made with Sora? Turns out it used a ton of rotoscoping and manual VFX.
A ‘head’ would pop back on, and the balloon colors would keep changing from generation to generation.
