Comment by TomGarden
13 hours ago
I opened this with an open mind, but it felt dead and AI immediately to me. Neural Viz, however, had succeeded in making things I find watchable all by himself[0] by working around some of the current weaknesses and by having stellar human writing. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it seems he got burnt out from doing it all alone so it's been a while since the last upload. The Remo Green one is my favorite[1].
[0]https://www.wired.com/story/the-future-of-ai-media-parody-of...
> I opened this with an open mind, but it felt dead and AI immediately to me.
Episode 1 is. He's getting better at this. By episode 3, the characters have come alive and the scenery is really good.
What? In episode 3 at 0:30 he's coming out from a waterway to a junction but 5s later there's a wall standing exactly where he came from. The characters are horribly bland, there's no weight or fun to him surfing the water, he's stiff as a statue on it when a protagonist on a board usually is depicted as really skilled on their vehicle of choice.
Not to mention that all of the imagery has this oversharp AI quality to it + there's random blurring happening all over the screen at random locations, presumably because the video generation is happening in 5s intervals.
The dog-like creature on the ship was a fun addition but for some reason there was this long awkward silence before, during and after Kuno pet it.
If this is your definition of an alive character then I suggest you go read some quality books or watch quality series made before 2022.
Neural Viz had really good consistency and really good scripts, also importantly knew to write the story around the limitations in what AI could do, including using non-human characters to avoid that uncanny valley that I immediately see in the Kono Express video. Truly a master at his craft, it's a shame he hung it up!
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