AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene

Well, that’s absolutely amazing. Watch this breathtaking AI rendering of the IMAX cameras filming the atomic bomb experiment scene (Trinity test) on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer. If that’s the AI (Artificial Intelligence), just imagine what the real BTS footage looks like, or the actual scene.

AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming the Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene. Picture: Saran Srimee via Midjourney

AI rendering of IMAX cameras

These pictures were published by user Saran Srimee in the Midjourney FB group. Midjourney is an AI art generator from textual description. The pictures show the AI rendering of BTS footage from Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer set. The real BTS pictures were captured when filming the atomic bomb scene with the IMAX cameras. One of Midjourney users imagined those (Saran Srimee) and compiled them via the software with the help of a special bot. The results are breathtaking, hyperrealistic, and intricately detailed AI renderings of the IMAX cameras shooting the Trinity test.

AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming the Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene. Picture: Saran Srimee via Midjourney

AI doesn’t know what an IMAX camera looks like

As explained, the AI pictures of the IMAX cameras created by Midjourney software demonstrate hyperrealistic footage showing strange machines capturing a real atomic explosion. However, AI doesn’t know (yet) what IMAX cameras look like. The Midjourney is an independent research lab that produces a proprietary artificial intelligence program that creates images from textual descriptions. The tool is currently in open beta, which it entered on July 12, 2022. As for now, it has nearly a million members. In simple words, the program appears to take concepts and make them a reality- art-based AI imagery. It uses machine learning to create pictures based on text, so there’s a chance that IMAX cameras will be created in a much more precise manner in the future when the software will recognize them.

AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming the Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene. Picture: Saran Srimee via Midjourney

How does it work?

The user describes what he wants to see. The Midjourney bot goes out and finds images that are like what have described and combined them uniquely and artistically. What you get is more than a simple composite. Midjourney is an AI ultra-complex art image creator. You get an entirely new and original creation. In the case of Oppenheimer, the user had to write words like IMAX, Trinity, Atom Bomb, Behind The Scenes, Cinematic, Epic, 65mm Cameras, and Movie Set, which could lead him to those mesmerizing BTS images.

AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming the Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene. Picture: Saran Srimee via Midjourney

Filmmaking blogs thought this is real

Now listen to this. Many filmmaking outlets thought that those were actually real and new IMAX cameras shooting the Trinity test. However, it’s easy to be fooled by the crazy mind of Nolan, who is a freak of IMAX cameras and an insane zero-VFX enthusiast. We wrote here before about Nolan who has recreated the Trinity test (the first nuclear weapon detonation, in New Mexico) without the use of computer graphics. Hence, those AI pictures managed to trick many movie outlets. They even gave a credit to the still photographer on Nolan’s set, Melinda Sue Gordon. Hilarious! Midjourney is not able to post-process photos taken with a camera. In order to create an image on an existing picture, the user should prompt with the web address of the photo (even Dropbox or Google Drive). Thus, there’s a chance that the user has referred to an online resource of secret BTS footage of Oppenheimer. However, in our opinion, those images were created only by text description, based on Saran’s imagination.

AI Pictures of the IMAX Cameras Filming the Oppenheimer’s Trinity Scene. Picture: Saran Srimee via Midjourney

BTW, a few hours ago, the new Oppenheimer trailer has been released. Watch it below:

Closing thoughts

Those AI-generated BTS images of the IMAX cameras filming Nolan’s Trinity test, are definitely incredible. However, do you know what will be super cool? Watching the real BTS images of that scene, we are sure they exist. Or of course, watching the edited scene in an IMAX theater. Let’s know your thoughts on that AI-generated IMAX camera:-)

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