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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/FusionRocketsPlease on 2023-08-08 10:23:11+00:00.
TV series have usually always had to be simpler in visual effects than movies, because of the limited budget they have. I found it cringe when watching the Game of Thrones adaptations of the battles that took place in the books. Everything was limited and small. A series I like, The Expanse, was canceled because it was supposedly too expensive to maintain. Amazon even having infinite money, did not even want to invest in marketing the series.
The cost of producing visual effects comes in part from having to pay visual effects artist salaries. With the growth of generative AI, we could get it to do what 10 people would do and even faster. That way, the series could all be with visual effects equivalent to the budget of Rings of Power and no longer have that cringe economics that we see when trying to do something big with little money.