Hey all, SLR was kind enough to send me one of the new AI scripts for review, possibly because I asked nicely, you know.
The script is for this scene:
As I do not have a current sub to SLR, it took me a second to get a copy of the scene, I ended up finding a deal on LethalHardcore and subbed to it for a month. As a side note Lethal Hardcore is not a bad site, in and of itself, they’ve got some nice scenes going on there. There’s a new one from Kimora Quinn that I grabbed, watch for a script for it in the coming weeks.
Anyway, unto the AI script for the scene itself. The quick headline is that this is definitely a marked improvement from the last iteration of the SLR AI scripts. The scene itself is older, 2880x1440, so it doesn’t look great but still high enough resolution I can’t imagine the AI engine had issues with it being “lower resolution”. The set is pretty typical of your suburban living room static shot, lots of whites and hues similar with two white models so again, it’s representative of a high percentage of VR scenes. At least from what I’ve seen in earlier iterations of AI based scripting, not just from SLR but all over the industry, the AI engine seemed to do best on high contrast scenes and I definitely have seen homogenized color palettes cause issues with tracking. Even at normal levels, the contrast is enough that a human scripter wouldn’t have issues. I didn’t see a lot of evidence that this created an issue here.
In general the script still has hallmarks of it not being a craft script: there’s a 5 minute lead in where the model is stripping and engaging in immersive banter and the Handy (which is the device I tested it out on) kind of moved around listlessly at the top of it’s range, like your stand-in in the scene is a 20 year old kid amped up with too much coffee mindlessly fiddling with the top of his fly. A lot of sequences begin with a slower lead in of teasing or whatever, these feel a bit listless and wayward - some of that may be the AI having issues tracking speed and change of direction, some of it may just be at a speed that’s slower which is not a strong point for The Handy. On a good craft script, the beginning of these “licks” are tweaked to still be engaging, with AI scripts, it is what it is. However, I found in this version of the AI script, when I went into the OFS scripting environment, it looked pretty accurate so that’s definitely an improvement.
Once the sequence get’s moving along, it works great. That fast sequences are very accurate and there’s a lot of detail there - variation in top and bottom points that closely matches the video, lots of speed changes midstroke, it tracks that really well. On strokes where there is a lot of rotation, the AI handles it well and seems to track appropriate x/y access speed.
I didn’t notice any sudden freak outs from the Handy which is my complaint about almost every other AI generated script, you’ll be going along nicely and suddenly there’s a flurry of extreme motion out of character with the video and out of character with the surrounding scripted action. So this is much better.
There were a couple small chunks where the AI simply missed the articulation points entirely. But it was few and far between, some users might not even notice that, I dunno, obviously I’m a bit more keyed in.
In summary: this is a marked improvement on the previous effort and to the extent that the company seems to want to create a site where nearly every scene has a haptic script of some sort, this is a solid step in that direction. This script is selling for $4 on SLR. Personally, I’d like to see a pricepoint closer to the 2-3 range with the SLR craft scripts being 5-6. But SLR knows their audience better than I so I’m sure a lot of thought went into that but at the $4 price point, I’d be a lot more stingy with the scripts I bought. I’m trying to look at this through the eyes of before I did scripting.
I think if they get to the point where 90 percent of the content has scripts, with the majority obviously being AI generated, that does make for a compelling reason to subscribe to the all you can eat plan. There were times when I subbed to the SLR script plan where I’d have a short amount of time to kill and I’d just browse the site, checking out bits and pieces of this and that. Being able to do that kind of drop the needle browsing on the haptic scripts would be fun. Anwho, that’s my review, such as it is, sorry so long.