YouTuber Marques Brownlee was given the opportunity to use OpenAI’s brand new and as yet unreleased video generator Sora.
Brownlee posted three video clips he created on Sora and also shared his thoughts on the technology that has been turning heads.
I got a rare opportunity to ask OpenAI’s video generation model Sora for some videos this week! I had 3 prompts. Here’s the videos with my prompts and what I learned 🧵
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) February 29, 2024
The internet personality first made a video of a dog walking across a parking lot. Walking is a difficult action to create artificially and there are errors but it is still mightily impressive. The second video is of a 3D printer while the third is of a product reviewer who looks more like a photographer.
Prompt 1: A medium sized friendly looking dog walks through an industrial parking lot. The environment is foggy and cloudy. Shot on 35mm film, vivid colors. pic.twitter.com/gs4Mi3idZT
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) February 29, 2024
Prompt 2: A timelapse closeup of a 3D printer printing a small red cube in an office with dim lighting. pic.twitter.com/bczuoOnrK6
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) February 29, 2024
Prompt 3: A young professional product reviewer in a well lit video studio is surrounded by gadgets and technology, sitting in front of a computer with two displays. He’s holding a cinema camera as he ponders what video to make next. He is in focus, while the background is… pic.twitter.com/0sPC2UgFsv
— Marques Brownlee (@MKBHD) February 29, 2024
Brownlee says Sora is struggling with physics, in particular legs and walking.
“Often in Sora-generated videos of walking, the legs cross over and merge into each other. Also, branded items never quite match up to real life. Things like cars, cameras, etc are never quite identifiable as a specific model,” he says on X (formerly Twitter)
However, Brownlee praises the lighting noting that in the AI video of a professional product reviewer, it’s “almost as if there’s a large soft key light just out of frame to the left”
“Across the board, lighting and shadows match very well. Across the desk, the computer, keyboard, face, et cetera…but he has 6 fingers lol.”
There is no official release date for Sora yet.