When the “Magic Oz in Sphere” show is inaugurated in Las Vegas Strip on August 28, the public will experience the 1939 Cinema Classic in a way that their creators probably never imagined they are possible.
Thousands of people will meet in the eyes of the tornado that starts the house from the dorothy farm, in Kansas, from their bonds. The film was improved to fill a wall of almost 15,000 square meters of LED panels that extends through three football fields, which surround the public and reaching 22 floors in height, while the fans of 750 horses launch wind and debris to simulate the tornado.
The $ 104 or more seat exhibition is more than it seems. “Oz Magician” marks one of the most significant partnerships between a study and a technological society to use artificial intelligence to create a new experience.
Reuters spoke with nine people, including directors directly involved in the project and senior experts for Entertainment, who have told the story behind a project that some veterans of the sector see as a possible decisive moment in the use of Hollywood artificial intelligence tools.
Bring Dorothy and The Bad Witch to the huge sphere, a globe -shaped entertainment place with advanced technology, took two years and brought together his creative team, Warner Bros Discovery Executives, Google Deepmind Researchers and Academics, as well as artists of visual effects – over 2,000 people in total.
Development occurred during the intense apprehension on the impact of the AI on the works of Hollywood and the desire to preserve human creativity. Some visual effects companies initially contacted to work on the project refused because they were not authorized to work with IA at the moment.
“You are fried!”
To get here, the blessing of the CEO of Warner Bros Discovery David Zaslav, heads of his studies and lawyers who have established the guidelines for the use of the AI. “Oz Magician in Spherre” has used cinematographic materials, including scenarios plants, filming lists, advertising photos and cinematographic artifacts, as well as about 60 research documents to give the film a better resolution.
“We had to reinvent cinematography, we had to reinvent the edition and had to do everything without changing the experience,” said Ben Grossmann, winner of the Oscar, who supervised the visual effects of the project. “Because if you touch something of this sacred game from the cinema, you are fried!”
Instead of exploring the IA to cut the work, they tried to use it to give new life to a classic and create new experiences with the existing intellectual property.
“Hollywood adopts new technologies and everyone can’t wait to use them secondly,” said Buzz Hays, a film producer veteran who guides the group of entertainment solutions of Google Cloud. “What” The Wizard of Oz “is doing for us is to give that first opportunity that people say:” My God, this is nothing I thought I was “.
The project began in 2023, with the managers of the sphere that discussed which project would pass the technological limits of the place that had already received the “postcard” of Darren Aronofsky.
“The Wizard of Oz” soon occupied the top of the list to be a well -known and loved film, suitable for the huge sphere screen, according to Carolyn Blackwood, director of Sphere Studios. It was an opportunity to reintroduce the classic to a new generation in a way that would put them in the world of L. Frank Baum.
Symbolically, the team chose a classic film that was a technical wonder of their time. Although it was not the first film that used Technicolor, the dramatic transition from “Oz Magician” from tones sepia to hypersular color was a cinematographic structure.
SPHERE CEO Entertainment, James Dolan and the creative collaborator Jane Rosenthal, Co -Fondor of the Tribeca Film Festival and renowned film producer, imagined a more ambitious project of a simple digital rhyme of a classic. Rosenthal asked Hays to bring Google as a technical partner.
Dolan searched Warner Bros Discovery, Zaslav, a friend and a commercial partner from cable TV, to propose to bring “Oz” to the sphere.
“I had just visited the sphere with a friend and I was really hit,” said Zaslav, adding that Dolan and Rosenthal also won their items in the studio “, who loved the idea.”
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Before delivering one of the most important entertainment properties in the world, Warner Bros established rigid basic rules. Google could train its models to generative generative on each main actor to reproduce their performance, but the data would continue to be possessed by the study. None of the “OZ” training data would be incorporated into the public models of Ai di Google.
“One of the essential elements for the beginning of this project was the creation of a safe place for experimentation,” said Grossmann. “Warner Bros, Google and Spher have created an environment in which they said: ‘We don’t necessarily know how it will end, but we create a small quarantine area here.”
The visual effects team initially tried to expand the images using images generated by the computer, which would have created animated photojournalist versions of the characters. This approach was rejected because he would violate the integrity of the original performances.
“Artificial intelligence was actually the last resource, because otherwise we could not do it,” said Grossmann, whose study by Los Angeles, Magnopus, worked in preferential computers animated films such as Disney’s “The Lion King”.
The IA has improved the resolution of small cell paintings of 1939 for very high definition images. He has restored the details, such as Dorothy’s face or the consistency of the frightened face, obscured by the Technicolor process. The IA also helped to “paint” the images on the screen to fill the gaps created by the cuts or frames of the camera.
It took months of repeated subtle adjustments and brain teams of Google Deepmind to increase consumer AI tools and provide clear images with the “Super” 16k sphere resolution.
The musicians rewritten the entire soundtrack of the film on stage of the original sound to enjoy the 167,000 local speakers. The vocal performances of Judy Garland and other actors remained unchanged.
Source: Terra
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