Greg Lake - I believe in Father Christmas

[Stargleamer]

[highplainsdem]

1. Oh, no. That's the new animated video that might be partly done with AI, since in places it has the

rippling lines that you often find with AI animation. I couldn't determine for certain whether it uses AI - maybe there's some other technique causing that creepy rippling effect - but I decided not to post it when I ran across it a while back.

The original video is so much nicer, and it was restored in 2020. That video, and an article about it:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/new-4k-video-of-greg-lakes-i-believe-in-father-christmas-released

This new 4K version of the original promo video has been painstakingly and expertly restored from a recently discovered rare copy of the original film for I Believe In Father Christmas which was shot partly on the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt and in the caves where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered. The video includes previously unseen footage from the Vietnam War and was directed by Arnould Schwartzman who went on to win an Oscar in 1982 for his film Genocide.

The new video restoration included manually cleaning the film to remove the sticky residue from the sellotape joins to allow it to pass freely through the scanner, rebuilding the cuts to remove the jumps, recreating damaged frames based on those surrounding it, frame by frame dirt and scratch clean and eve repainting in camel legs!

[Stargleamer]

2. I thought I was posting the enhanced version of this song. . .

since it was posted a month ago and labeled the 50th anniversary rendition. The one you posted in your reply to me looks like it was posted 5 years ago. I had heard about an enhanced version and given what you write, perhaps the one you posted was it, even though it looks like it was posted on YouTube 5 years ago.

In any case, I thought the OfficialGregLake YT page wouldn't mess with posting AI stuff (without telling us at least) but maybe I had too much faith in them.

[highplainsdem]

3. I honestly don't know what it is. If I was sure it was AI, I'd ask you to delete it, but I'm not sure. The

person who created that animation listed some of the tools used, but I don't know if any of them include AI features. Let me see if I still have that bookmarked or can find it...

[highplainsdem]

4. Okay, found the Instagram post showing some of the tools used:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DSAWaAZDKKV/


As I said, I don't know if any of those include AI.

But rippling lines in places are characteristic of other AI video I've seen.

If you look at this new video from 2:30 to about 2:40, at the sweater the father is wearing, the pattern is rippling a lot at times. But I don't know if that's AI sloppiness or some non-AI effect they were trying for.

So frustrating... And I just loved the original video. Seeing Greg, rather than animation.