I'm an indie filmmaker and I do community theater. We use gaussian splats for 3D filmmaking, and we're already using AI for background plates and VFX shots.

Where this is going - your local community theater will be able to have Lord of the Rings / Gollum-style facial/body rigs that eventually work in real time, and actors will markerless mocap into super high fidelity fantasy and science fiction scenes.

> Movies are dead? I really don't get where this take is coming from.

Movies will never be more real and more personal. The folks at A24 are going to have Marvel powers with way better stories.

Stop being so bearish. These are tools, and creative people will abuse the hell out of them to do wildly cool things.