Old man needs to step back and let others have a shot, fancy wanting relevance so much you have to ruin a life long credibility.
Retire and support other people.
this post was submitted on 02 Jun 2026
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Yeah, I just read an interview with Lilly Wachowski, and she's running a studio that gives grants to young minority artists with an eye to then producing their shows and movies, giving an experienced guiding hand, and lifting them up.
That's about the pinnacle of what older successful creative can do, in my opinion.
More like Martin Whore-Easy.
Can't wait for a blended mixture of Goodfellows irishmen casino and wolf of wallstreet where he makes gangsters in space but with cowboy hats.
Storyboarding is actually a pretty good use of AI.
Completely depends on how it's used. "Storyboarding" has quite a few aspects to it. Many of them are going to be removing creativity and certainly others' jobs.
I am a filmmaker. I studied storyboarding in film school and have made and worked with storyboards. They are a tool...and a cheap one at that. They are art, but they are secondary to the films they help create.
If filmmakers could afford to just go out and shoot everything, they would. Storyboards...at their essence...put filmmakers out of work, but have become a tool, and an artform as a result of film companies trying to save money.
It's like a band using a string/horn patch on a keyboard or sequencer instead of a string/horn section, or a drum machine instead of a drummer. It still tells the story, but it's not the whole story. It's not just good...it's good enough.
10 out of 10 filmmakers would go out and actually shoot the storyboards if they had the budget. Storyboards only exist because studios try to cut corners.
Do you think helping studios cut more corners, or rather, enabling them to expect success with even lower budgets (in their mind at least), will make things better or worse?
I don't think about it being better or worse, because it just is. Directors have always tried to do everything and Producers have always tried to do the cheapest thing. It's always been like this.
Storyboards were created in the first place by producers trying to do something cheaper than the directors wanted. It became an artform, but it is only an artform that exists because of filmmaking.
If AI can storyboard a script for directors, why wouldn't they use it? My god...it sounds like a great way to develop ideas. Storyboards have been made with software for years anyways.
Boords, StudioBinder, Celtx and others have been stealing jobs for a while now. This is just a logical next step.
You either use AI, or it uses you.
Storyboarding is art, but it is derivative art. It is beautiful and amazing, but maybe not future-proof.
It seems that the crux of this argument is "corpos gonna corpo, and I know that from experience", but the first half's getting lost in the lines. ☝🏼
As with all things ai, it’s debatable. One way or another someone loses a job. You could make the argument that someone just wouldn’t do a proper storyboard since they can’t afford it and create stick figures, but he for sure can afford storyboard artists.
I don't think that one way or another someone loses a job with all things AI.
That's the lie the grifters are trying to sell. "Look we're gonna automate workers, you need to invest in the next industrial age, stop hiring humans".
The fear is selling AI like hotcakes more than the AI is producing.
And I'm hardly saying AI is worthless. It isn't. I use it on a daily basis for my day job. But it's not replacing workers just like Google search didn't really replace workers, the same way wikipedia didn't either. It just made things more easy to do quickly sometimes, and sped up information search and access.
I think people unfairly call it a "worse Google search" when it's a very different sort of tool, but very similar to the situation before and after Google and Wikipedia came out. It has its place but it's not everywhere, and it's not going to make workers redundant as much as that it's selling point. I used to say maybe customer service, but even then it's layer zero for dumbass questions and shouldn't have any sort of trust to fuck with accounts.
Storyboards are just cheap tools that filmmakers use to make films. I am not trying to be disrespectful, but hear me out.
Storyboards, to be honest, put filmmakers out of work...because they're just a cheaper way to find shots than hiring a film crew to shoot tests.
The art of storyboarding developed out of a necessity film producers needed to fill.
It isn't actually a true artform that stands on itself alone. It is beautiful art, and storyboard artists are insanely talented...but, if films didn't exist, neither would storyboards.
That's what graphic novels/comics/manga/etc are for. That's the art. Storyboarding is a day job for graphic artists who also write graphic novels/etc.
A computer can make storyboards for a film, and storyboard artists can still make graphic novels/comics/manga/etc for their art.
Storyboards simply help filmmakers find their shots cheaper than sets, actors, lights and cameras do. Storyboarding is a child...filmmaking is the parent.
AI is so well suited to this, that it would be ridiculous to not use it as the tool it is supposed to be used as.
Doesn't seem like most people in this post understand filmmaking. They're usually a lot more like a technical diagram than a piece of art, especially early in preproduction.
It's also really hard to explain what you want to someone without several revisions