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AI effects vs. traditional VFX

Generation is a production tool. It does not replace the eye that decides what ships.

Traditional VFX is slow and expensive, and you can point at every frame and say who made the decision. Generative tools are fast, and they will happily invent a villa that does not exist. For property work that is not a feature. A buyer who arrives to a different roof line does not care that the model was impressive.

We use generation where it earns its keep: extending a plate, finishing a motion pass, iterating a graphic, illustrating an interview. We do not use it to dress a plot into a resort. That is one of the working standards on Our values.

The 3D render tour is the honest version of 'the building is not there yet.' It is labelled as a model because it is a model. AI that pretends to be a finished villa is a different product, and it is not this studio's.

If a generated pass cannot hold the same look as the live shoot, it does not ship. Art direction is the filter. Being AI-made is not treated as an achievement.

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