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Re:This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] by flohofwoe on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:50AM (#26553430)
Star Guitar is from 2003 which was well in the era of "cheap computers are good enough now that we can manipulate each pixel" (after all, Terminator 2 and Jurassic Park were made in the early 90's, and music videos usually don't need "cinematic" image quality because they were broadcasted over TV).

If you look closely at the Star Guitar video, you can find "clipping artefacts" where the fragments are pieced together or fade in and out.

Re:This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] by laumars on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:44AM (#26554863)
I don’t disagree with your point however Jurassic Park was mostly animatronics so not the best example to use.
Re:This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] by flohofwoe on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:02AM (#26555081)
Well it's just a few minutes, but definitely the most impressive few minutes of the movie ;) AFAIK most scenes where dinosaurs are jumping and running around were computer-rendered.

Remember that scene where the protagonists are running with the dino swarm around them? The paths of the dinosaurs were laid out in the real world with tennis balls, and back then we wondered "wow they must have great image processing code to remove all those tracking markers". Turns out it wasn't algorithms but humans who removed them frame by frame, pixel by pixel (it didn't occur to us computer nerds that brute force makes the most sense if you're on a tight schedule).

Re:This Music Video Does Not Exist [video] by Minor49er on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:55AM (#26554416)
Some of the background buildings look completely flat when they should have some slight depth. It took me dozens of viewings before I even noticed