{"id":22722,"date":"2025-04-02T05:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=22722"},"modified":"2025-04-22T09:14:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:14:57","slug":"severance-through-the-animated-lens-of-chatgpt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/02\/severance-through-the-animated-lens-of-chatgpt\/","title":{"rendered":"Severance, through the animated lens of ChatGPT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People can talk all the smack they want about &#8220;AI slop&#8221;\u2014and to be sure, there&#8217;s tons of soulless slop going around\u2014but good luck convincing me that there&#8217;s no creativity in remixing visual idioms, and in reskinning the world in never-before-possible ways. We&#8217;re just now dipping a toe into this new ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">ChatGPT 4o&#8217;s new image gen is insane. Here&#8217;s what Severance would look like in 8 famous animation styles<\/p>\n<p>1\/8:<br>Rankin\/Bass \u2013 That nostalgic stop-motion look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Cozy and janky. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5rFL8SGttS\">pic.twitter.com\/5rFL8SGttS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bennett Waisbren (@BennettWaisbren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettWaisbren\/status\/1905247775190864381?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BennettWaisbren\/status\/1905247775190864381\">the whole thread<\/a> for a range of fun examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">4\/8:<br>Pixar \u2013 Clean, subtle facial animation, warm lighting, and impeccable shot composition. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FNWgPccHcI\">pic.twitter.com\/FNWgPccHcI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bennett Waisbren (@BennettWaisbren) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BennettWaisbren\/status\/1905248265060360468?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People can talk all the smack they want about &#8220;AI slop&#8221;\u2014and to be sure, there&#8217;s tons of soulless slop going around\u2014but good luck convincing me that there&#8217;s no creativity in remixing visual idioms, and in reskinning the world in never-before-possible ways. We&#8217;re just now dipping a toe into this new ocean. ChatGPT 4o&#8217;s new image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,78],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22740,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22722\/revisions\/22740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}