[HN Gopher] RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional mo...
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RunwayML releases Act One: obsoleting traditional motion capture
Author : handfuloflight
Score : 30 points
Date : 2024-10-22 18:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (runwayml.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (runwayml.com)
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Title: Introducing Act-One - a new way to generate expressive
| character performances
| ChrisArchitect wrote:
| Seems pretty amazing. Now you can see why studios like Lionsgate
| might have been calling (https://runwayml.com/news/runway-
| partners-with-lionsgate)
| consumer451 wrote:
| Tangent: on this webpage, their choice to have so many videos
| autoplay saturates my USB 3 dock, and breaks audio sync on the
| video that I actually want to play. I think that's a first for
| me.
|
| The product looks pretty great though.
| momojo wrote:
| This wows me as a lay person, but can anyone who's worked in mo-
| cap tell why or why not this should impress me?
| doctorpangloss wrote:
| Maybe video models can't do all the problems. Can they do all the
| problems that are valuable to narrative media creators? What
| about business?
|
| Odds seem high. "Solve all the problems" can mean "solve all the
| valuable problems."
|
| Runway's biggest obstacle is not scientific. They have to
| convince VCs to not index on all AI startups - a historically
| winning strategy in finance - and instead focus capital on the
| two leaders in any race, at any cost, because 5x $200m
| investments will fail by being not _enough_ money instead of too
| much. Runway needs billions of dollars to do what they are doing!
| xnx wrote:
| Impressive output, also amazing that a not-quite-as-good version
| is free and open source: https://liveportrait.github.io/
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