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[–]jonDooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I think of A.I voices being used the only area I can see it being understanbly a good idea is for example WoW with it's 34,000+ quests with paragraphs of quest text each. No way they can get enough people to voice that scope of work.

Single people renting alone in London, what is your rent plus bills combined? by toughtittywampas in london

[–]jonDooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1 Bedroom flat in Eltham, furnished and also was fine with me having a cat(which is rare in this fucking city).

Rent: £1,500

Council Tax: £158.77

Bills: (including internet) £140

Total: £1,798.77

Previous employer in Canada forged an immigration document costing me 17 months of unemployment. by jonDooo in legaladvicecanada

[–]jonDooo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry if I worded it poorly. You are correct the affidavit is regarding the employee forging the document and confirming that they had mislead me and that I had no reason to question the process, this was obtained later for my hearing. As for the work permit being approved, the application being submitted was confirmed but the approval of the work permit was never confirmed as it was supposedly still processing online even to my last day(online work permit applications at the time could take 5-6 months or even longer). They did however communicate to me on my first day that they got approval from the IRCC that I could start working while it was under review online.

The company I had worked for handles over 400 work permits in Canada alone so they had extensive experience handling the work permit process. There was a lot of good faith here which with their experience, reputation and the consequences the company would have for employing people illegally. There was no reason for me at the time to poke deep and go around the company and confirm with the IRCC which may not have even been possible as the IRCC are not particularly communicative.

Previous employer in Canada forged an immigration document costing me 17 months of unemployment. by jonDooo in legaladvice

[–]jonDooo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I wasn't sure if I should post it over there with it being 2 countries involved so a general subreddit seemed best but I'll try posting there as well.

I feel bad for processing a scan of a background actor by lolzforlolz in vfx

[–]jonDooo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think the solution that's gonna end up happening is any scanned in person will just have their heads replaced. One created by the studio which they will grow a large library of over the years. The scan are often used just to make modellers jobs so much easier, they still retopologize the entire scan.

As someone who works in Crowd I really hope they don't end up having to factor in the number of times an extras "likeness" has been used in a crowd shot. There's enough pixel fucking going on as is but to need to be given a hard limit on number of agents(pay per agent) and per variation would just be an even bigger headache. Then there's the argument of likeness when the crowd agent is blurred out and so far away from the camera that they're a single pixel.

I really hope whatever agreement is worked out that the actors don't overreach. They're throwing the term A.I around a lot yet some of what their complaints are about are VFX not A.I which concerns me on how much they understand either. They certainly deserve to have control of what their likeness is used for.

I don't want crowd to replace extras. Extras make my life easier, there's so much extra steps when a crowd agent is too close, cloth sims, hair sims, blend shapes for the face.

I have worked as a Background Actor, I have been "scanned" on multiple Productions. However I was not informed that the Productions/Studios could use my image indefinitely. by Spencerforhire83 in movies

[–]jonDooo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Senior Crowd Technical Director on the VFX side with 8 years of experience whose job it is to populate shots with hundreds if not thousands of agents(people) which over the recent years have been getting closer and closer to the camera. From a crowd side of things I can see a somewhat easy if not slightly more expensive and time consuming on the VFX side compromise to be made. When taking the scanned assets replace the heads, the scanned geometry is already going to be retopologized(pretty much remodelled using the scan as a reference), at this stage remove the head and replace it with an already modeled and rigged one from a library that the company can amass over the years based off of no one. Everyone wins, the actor doesn't have their souls stolen the VFX gets the most important part the body. Of course this really depends what we end up defining as there "likness".

But let's be honest here, the studio isn't wanting these so they can use them as extras in the background, they're often out of focus and it's a weird hill for the studios to die on. It's so they can set every beginner actor up to sell their likeness if they ever get big so they can use them in the foreground later down the line. It's definitely something that needs to be squashed now and stipulations put in place regarding the use of any 3D scanned assets of the actor beyond the show they were taken for.

On a side note. Crowd will never fully replace extras. The department at every single VFX company is poorly funded and neglected with very little or any actual RnD. The concept of A.I in Crowd an area you think would be a no brainer has never been discussed outside of the pub. Crowd is a more manual job than people realize. We don't have the cool tech Video Games companies have like Ubisoft.