Honestly, for most commercials and short form content why would you ever hire a camera crew and actors again when you can get this sort of output for <$100? This is no longer AI slop but high quality production level output, even passing the gymnast video turing test.

It took Studio Ghibli a year to animate one crowd scene back in the day. Now we're not far from getting live-action remakes of all of our favorite anime (Naruto, DBZ, etc).

The examples being shared are frankly blowing my mind... 🤯