Introducing Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow
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·May 20, 2025quantumHazer
superb_dev
You don’t even have to look close for some of these. The owl suddenly flipping direction in the first video was jarring
JamesBarney
It looked to me like the owl was turning around to land.
quantumHazer
Yeah the owl ""animation"" is terrible, I bet they could have found better examples? If it wasn't the case I don't know what to think
elzbardico
Got a bit of an uncanny valley feeling with the owl and the old man videos. And the origami video give me a sort of sinister feeling, seemed vaguely threatening, agressive.
Animats
The ad for Flow would be much better if they laid off the swirly and wavy effects, and focused on realism.
Soon, you should be able to put in a screenplay and a cast, and get a movie out. Then, "Google Sequels" - generates a sequel for any movie.
dimal
The swirly effects are probably used to distract from the problems of getting realism right.
FirmwareBurner
>Soon, you should be able to put in a screenplay and a cast, and get a movie out.
This "fixes" all of Hollywood's "issues". No more highly paid actors demanding 50 million to appear in your movie, no more pretentious movie stars causing dramas and controversies, no more workers' unions or strikes but all gains being funneled directly to shareholders.
Hell, most of the major Hollywood productions from the last 10 years have been nothing but creatively bankrupt sequels, prequels, spinoffs and remakes, all rehashed from previous IP anyway. How much worse than this can AI do? It might even be an improvement and at much lower cost.
com2kid
[delayed]
colesantiago
Definately plausible.
All this is in line with my prediction for the first entirely AI generated film (with Sora or other AI video tools) to win an Oscar being less than 5 years away.
And we're only 5 months in.
sergiotapia
How do you use Imagen 4 in Gemini? I don't see it in the model picker, I just 2.5 Flash and 2.5 Pro (Upgrade).
IncreasePosts
I don't care about AI animals but the old salt offended me.
Like most AI image or video generation tools, they produce results that look good at first glance, but the more you watch, the more flaws and sloppiness you notice, and they really lack storytelling