Week 5

During Week 5 of Hypercinema, we focused on becoming familiar with After Effects. I didn’t have my gaming laptop in this class, and my Mac is 4 years old, which means I have storage issues, so After Effects cannot run on it. During the class, I observed Ana working on After Effects. We also had a pretty heated discussion in class about our thoughts on AI. In Animation, Methods of Motion, Patrick said I know that as creative technologists, we have to utilise technologies and adapt to them changing, even if we don’t agree with them, and I agree. But when a movie is entirely AI-generated, it really annoys me, because what makes art truly art to me is the effort and the labor that goes into it. I do really believe there could be helpful in cases of AI, but in this case, I don’t think it’s necessarily needed. Much of this is due to consumer culture, and also how mass production over time degrades the quality of the material. In this case, I believe this is what will happen to the quality of art if we continue producing for the sake of quantity rather than quality. I think Arjun also mentioned this in class. We then discussed our midterm topics and formed groups. Nujum and I paired up for the midterm.