One possible barrier to that is going to be copyright laws. I have a feeling film studios won’t take kindly to people creating movies using their intellectual property, and if the models required to generate such movies are larger than most private individuals can afford (which I would strongly expect, at least for a few years), then they may be able to get the entire endeavour shut down for a long while.
There’s nothing stopping people from making fan films at the current moment, generally with the limitation that it isn’t put up for sale. I would find them being able to shut down progress on this tech dubious at best, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
It’s important to consider the idea that these models could also be used in tandem with actual footage as a cheap alternative to the modern CGI pipeline. Instead of paying hundreds of artists to painstakingly make your CGI alien world, you could ask a future model to inpaint the green screens with an alien world that it generates.
One possible barrier to that is going to be copyright laws. I have a feeling film studios won’t take kindly to people creating movies using their intellectual property, and if the models required to generate such movies are larger than most private individuals can afford (which I would strongly expect, at least for a few years), then they may be able to get the entire endeavour shut down for a long while.
There’s nothing stopping people from making fan films at the current moment, generally with the limitation that it isn’t put up for sale. I would find them being able to shut down progress on this tech dubious at best, but certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
It’s important to consider the idea that these models could also be used in tandem with actual footage as a cheap alternative to the modern CGI pipeline. Instead of paying hundreds of artists to painstakingly make your CGI alien world, you could ask a future model to inpaint the green screens with an alien world that it generates.