There was a lot of excitement at Siggraph this week, but a surprising lack of vision into the future. I guess that makes sense for a technical conference.
For the most part, people were focused on the next thing, whatever that may be. So they weren’t generally thinking about what computer graphics might be like in another ten years.
Well, ten years from now computers will be a hundred times faster than they are now. So things are indeed going to be qualitatively different.
Computer graphic imagery (CGI) will be completely integrated into our everyday life, as wearables become cheap and ubiquitous. The real and the virtual will be seamlessly intermixed to the point where the distinction between the two will start to become meaningless.
CGI will be continually created by generative AI in response to our casual conversation and gesture. And we won’t even think about it, because it will all just be normal.
But at Siggraph this year, they weren’t really talking about any of that.
Do you think CGI skills will continue to shape a career and what Hollywood may look like ?
Yes. Innovation won’t come from AI, it will come from humans, and cinema requires innovation, or else it stagnates.