(This was before the recent generative AI boom)

  • BitSound@lemmy.world
    4·
    1 year ago

    Dumb question, but how are these novel compared to Bugs Bunny other than presumably being cheaper to animate? I see some hype but don’t really get it

    • morrowind@lemmy.mlOP
      8·
      1 year ago

      other than presumably being cheaper to animate?

      I would assume they’re more difficult to animate, considering the detail and realism.

      But the difference is people are used to real but idealized peole as influencers. Virtual influencers fit that aesthetic. cartoon characters don’t

    • smegEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Bugs Bunny was never impersonating a real human, I think the novel part is the way an artificial human is interacting with the public in the same way a real human would, and the public are sometimes mistaking it for one