username Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Good Lord that's just objectively awful. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackparker123 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Will this be getting a VHS release? Making fn videos part 4? Andy Morahan will be weeping with joy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonizedmind Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 1 hour ago, rumandraisin said: Do we think Axl is even aware this exists... Surely The General is aware of The General! The funniest thing ever would be for it to quietly be taken down after a day or two.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colonizedmind Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 47 minutes ago, SoulMonster said: "Kickstart" implies there is more to come in 2024. That's the dictionary definition but GNR have their own take on vocabulary.... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
default_ Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 The problem isnt the use of AI really, the problem is the use of cheap AI. They couldve done better with the use of professional AI, instead they took the cheap one and did a really bad video of it. Any of us could actually do a video like this anytime and without any previous video editing knowledge. Its cheap, and being cheap isnt the problem, the problem is it really looks bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuerta86 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 First reaction is AI mixed with live footage. It's like Fernando saw that AI ad ran by a Russian company that steals your information on Facebook, clicked on it and uploaded his picture and liked it so he uploaded a whole GnR drive and we got this. Not bad but, just not feeling it. It goes with the theme of this and Monsters but not feeling it at the moment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outofgascar Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, colonizedmind said: That's the dictionary definition but GNR have their own take on vocabulary.... They're just getting warmed up for 2034 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoon87 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Just watched it again and wow, it just looks so cheap. I'm really not interested in AI at all and even I have seen better stuff in galleries and showrooms. This video will look dated in less than 6 months. Apart from that, I am not feeling this artistic approach at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vloors Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 It makes perfect sense to have a shitty video for a shitty song. Still cant shine that turd GnR. Release and promote Monsters already. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillionsOfSpiders Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I thought it was a Five Nights at Freddy’s video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DeNfr Posted January 24 Popular Post Share Posted January 24 thanks to Team Brazil I lost 50% of my visual acuity 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I love the "All Nightmare Long" video by Metallica. That is an example of a video with animation that is really cool for the video's concept. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristmasFnatic Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 I wonder what the band was thinking when they were shown the video by Fernando, or maybe they just dont care? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Slash posts AI videos often enough on his IG, so maybe he was on- board with this. Who knows? Absurd was released with a junk animated image video, Hard Skool was released with a half- assed lyric video, Perhaps had a live video, The General has a concept/live video... maybe that means Monsters will have the band acting in it since each release seems to have a bit more At this rate, we should have interviews, full videos, and new albums regularly put out every other year by 2050 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingBat Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 2 hours ago, SoulMonster said: The rendering hours themselves would push it far, far beyond $500 Then comes the live shots editing, the live motion, the hand drawings, and finally merging all this and post-production. So obviously maaany hours work resulting in much higher cost/price than most of their recent videos. Just go to Fiverr and look yourself, plenty of people on there offering similar content, and most of them work for pennies. Perhaps it's not $500, perhaps it's $1000, whatever, either way, it's easy and cheap to do. I don't know if they did it the easy or cheap way, maybe they spent 6 months on it and had 3-hour meetings every morning, but it's easily replicated by the most unqualified of visual artists for very little money. And rendering that AI animation isn't a big deal on modern computers, it'll do it in the background while you work. My new MacbookPro can edit 8K in real-time. We're not talking about the Unreal Engine here, we're talking about basic shit. I'm not saying time and effort wasn't put into it, but if there was they probably shouldn't have bothered, because it's a piece of piss to make something like that and most wouldn't make it so poorly. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxlRQ93 Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Crap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sausagebrain Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 This takes the crown for worst ever GnR music video (the previous holder being Bad Apples). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangerInThisTown Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 3 minutes ago, AxlRQ93 said: Crap Word 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jabberwocky Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Look, I'm blunted as fuck righyt now so I'll; say it looks drug trippy AF. But not all the weed nor DMT will ever I get what the poiunt of "this..." video Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackstar Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 As far as the concept of the video and it's relation to the subject matter of the lyrics, I don't think it has to be directly related (like showing a child being abused). I actually prefer it when it's more allusive. But the concept is not served by the way it is executed and the video game aesthetic of fast moving disjointed images. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingBat Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Good to hear that they left the clipping in, I would have missed it if they fixed it. 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DeNfr Posted January 24 Popular Post Share Posted January 24 it's actually better when you watched it twice 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D4NNY Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 Just bring back the damn dolphins @Dexter I don’t think the video is that bad though, better than Absurd and HS at least. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingBat Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 They could have done something like Iron Maiden did, and it would have required very little input from themselves if they hired a proper artist, writer and production company to do it, but for some reason they don't want to spend the money. I've been a video editor for 20 years and I'd be fucking embarrassed if I'd made that video for The General. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allwaystired Posted January 24 Share Posted January 24 43 minutes ago, ChristmasFnatic said: I wonder what the band was thinking when they were shown the video by Fernando, or maybe they just dont care? I doubt the band have much say in it all and Axl has probably just said 'yeah make a video, get on with it, whatever you think best'. I don't see that too much thought has gone into this at any level whatsoever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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