Follow this video by Adam Kyle Wilson, designer and co-founder at Polyform Studio, to find out, in steps, how to prompt Midjourney to produce for you the best possible results Build a story Choose a visual style Create a storyboard Generate images using prompts 2,700 renders later … Refine in Photoshop We are here to […]
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USCO 1-0 Kris Kashtanova over Midjourney book images
After revisiting the copyright of the graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has decided that AI-generated images are not protectable under current copyright law, as they “are not the product of human authorship”. The USCO has asserted that copyright protection was originally granted to the book’s author Kris Kashtanova in […]
A quick introduction to ChatGPT
The ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is being described as most popular internet app ever. It turns out that it was originally released as a “research preview” for two-year-old technology that was being prepared for something much grander. Its reception has come as a complete surprise to the OpenAI team who have been […]
Comparing VFX and game pipelines
I got feedbacks from people in the VFX suggesting to represent it with Spaghettis 😃 Hans Godard Hans Godard, Principal Technical Artist at Team Kaiju, who previously worked at Blizzard and Naughty Dog, produced this (updated) and what appears to be mildly controversial diagram to show how the pipelines and workflows in visual effects and […]
How molecular diffusion inspired generative AI
In the field of artificial intelligence, generative models, are based on diffusion models. These in turn are inspired by the world of physics and specifically non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which governs phenomena like the spread of fluids and gases. Generative models can do something that neural networks have always struggled with; use their training data to generate […]
Will Smith fights an alligator to the death “in a fish tank in front of a TV set”
In the sequence below from Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation, the character Peter, a runaway slave played by Will Smith, is escaping through a swamp when he is snatched by an alligator and has to fight for his life. Working with Legacy Effects and Wētā FX, VFX supervisor Rob Legato shot elements for the underwater scene in a […]
