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I remain skeptical. Unnamed sources claiming it was someone on the art department who hand drew it is not entirely convincing. I'd like to see the layers. Or, failing that, an explanation for why the characters are so inconsistent and indistinguishable from one panel to the next. Why the shadows don't make any sense. Why the hands when we see them don't make sense.
Also, the article claims the AR wall is using machine learning, and I'd like to see a source on that. My understanding, based on what the VFX supervisor for Disco, PIC, SNW, and SFA has said is that their AR walls do not integrate machine learning.
TBF, those are issues I have with loads of industry comics of the past, say, 50 years. But even if that artwork was made by a human artist, that person was probably not a comic artist but a person from the art staff who could do something passable.
Most likely this wasn't really made to be read or dwelled upon. It's a prop that should represent as a comic book as it whizzes past on the screen. Which is sort of a missed opportunity when there are actual Star trek comics being made, and the producers could have reached out to one of the artists already drawing Trek comics...
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that they outsourced it and the outsourcer used AI but said they didn’t. It wouldn’t be the first time, even on high profile projects - Marvel’s Loki ran into exactly that issue before.
What's this AR wall? Every reference to it has been removed from the article.
Basically, the AR wall is a giant LED screen that they can use to display a background of some sort as opposed to having the actors acting against a green screen. It allows them to create some interesting locations for stories without without having to build a full set or find an appropriate location.
SNW even uses it for their main engineering aboard the Enterprise, though that’s why we didn’t see main engineering at all in season three; it apparently takes too long to set up and break down in front of the AR wall.
The technology is becoming increasingly common, and some of them do use generative AI. However, the one the Star Trek productions use does not.