Some time ago, the world of Hollywood came to a standstill when the SAG-AFTRA strike broke out. One of the main points made by the men and women working in Hollywood was to create proper guidelines that dictated the limitations of the use of AI in filmmaking. A similar controversy has surfaced regarding the upcoming Hellboy movie after some time has passed since this incident. Hellboy director Brian Taylor has been accused of using AI for character design, but how true is this and is it really such a big deal? Let's talk about it.

In an article published by motionpictures.org, it has been noted that the new Hellboy movie, titled Hellboy: The Crooked Man has used AI to develop some of the character designs. President of Millennium Films, Jonathan Yunger, the studio that made this film said that after using practical effects to create monsters for Hellboy, he wasn't satisfied with it so he turned to artificial intelligence for the job. In his statement he said-

“After virtually shooting a demon character (for a movie called Hellboy coming out later this year) that didn't look good, he turned to AI to come up with a new design, on a platform he built himself. I could do 3000 creature designs in an hour. So now I can start picking and editing them and then send it to visual effects." -Jonathan Yunger

When people learned about this, the use of AI became a controversial topic among people who cornered Brian Taylor with a storm of tweets and other social media posts projecting their disappointment on the director. After all this, Brian Taylor reacted to this stating that Hellboy: The Crooked Man has not used AI in the character creation even in the slightest and all the effects that can be seen in the film will be practical. he was misquoted, my man. the comment was referring to another movie, THE OFFERING. rest assured that no AI is used on HBTCM and our amazingly practical Hellboy looks phenomenal. presumably the article was written by AI… — Brian Taylor (@theunrealBT) May 1, 2024