Can generative AI animate a decent movie? That question's getting an early test. OpenAI and production studio Vertigo Films have announced a plan to create a feature-length adaptation of a 2023 short film made as a demonstration for OpenAI's Dall-E image generator .

The film, called Critterz, has a budget of less than $30 million, and producers hope to make the movie in about nine months -- in time for the Cannes Film Festival next May, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal .

The short film , also called Critterz, was a play on the nature documentary genre, with the strange creatures in the forest suddenly showing they could understand and talk with the narrator. It was written and directed by Chad Nelson, now a creative specialist at OpenAI. Nelson used Dall-E to gener

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