In a context where making films and series is more expensive than before and with fewer financial resources, the costs of virtual production seem to put this new form of filmmaking at risk. 

However, this paper will show how, in the face of the incipient use of AI in VFX, Virtual Production is beginning to become the vehicle to exercise full creative control over the autonomous character of AI and as a bridging tool between economic virtuality and the aspect that cinema still resists and commits to maintain: the humanity of the performers and the eye of reality.