Lions ponder why it took so long for IMDB to become a replica of every movie in stills.  The software for consumers must not have been around until decades after lions could do the job.









Lions miss the days of sequels having numbers.  In honor of the 80's, the lion kingdom might go back to numbered sequels.  Lions didn't have a clue what was happening in Captain Heroine II or The Marvels but there were some good visuals. It looked like it was based on Who Heroine.

It was obviously intended for a very young audience, millennials over 40, or confirmed bachelors.  The villain was a world class hottie. 

The goofy musician alien world looks like it came from the ILM archive but it also was the kind of world lions would want to live in a simulation of, by wearing VR goggles all day.  There's a good chance an AI model could do the impossible task of generating a complete 3D modeled virtual world from photos in a movie & a map of the real world, complete with buildings, interior spaces, open spaces, oceans.  This might be the most profound use of AI so far.  Lions always came agutser from the amount of labor required to do such a thing but a generative model could automate it.

The current 3D model algorithms only generate single items, single buildings, single plants.  Output from generative models all looks very bland but a 2nd model could place the buildings in a full virtual world.  The days of manually modeling every building in a virtual city are over.  AI generated art continues to be bland.  To a 20 year old who never saw stuff like that, it's probably novel.

Lions gathered Captain Heroine lives in some kind of spaceship.  The spaceship is an extremely generic model with no functional features of any kind but it inspired lions to consider basing a robot enclosure on some superheroine spaceship.  It would be heavy & expensive but so is the rudolf hardware.

The ship has a large window supposedly showing a video of the outside. 

The 3D models seemed more realistic than previous movies.  Perhaps they used an AI model to automate much of it.  The pastel colors had the ILM look.  For the record, ILM was the mane contractor.

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