Boundary-stretching filmmaker and visual artist Alan Warburton calculates that 99% of his new documentary The Wizard of AI, which was commissioned by the Open Data Institute, was made using generative AI tools. Of course, it’s nowhere near as easy as it might sound. “People have this idea that you can instantly convert your thoughts into […]
“Step into a world of creative filmmaking, driven by human talent, and enhanced by AI technologies“ The AI Film Festival (AIFFF) takes place at Expo City Dubai next February. The competition to submit films for consideration is now closed and the judges have begun deliberating. The finalists will be announced in late January, giving us the chance to vote for our Audience Choice award favourite. The awards ceremony itself […]
Stability AI‘s latest, early, experimental “open-weights” image-to-video synthesis tool, Stable Video Diffusion, consists of two models: one, “SVD”, can produce image-to-video synthesis at 14 frames of length another, “SVD-XT”, generates 25 frames They can operate at varying speeds from 3 to 30 frames per second, and output short (typically 2-4 second-long) MP4 video clips at […]
During a panel discussion at the recent Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, former Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told moderator Timothy L O’Brien that three years from now, thanks to AI (machine learning), completing a world-class animated film will require 90% less time and labour than when he was making them. “I don’t know […]
What the surviving members of The Beatles’ are considering to be their final song together, ‘Now And Then’, has been released to much acclaim. The song’s release owes much to film director Peter Jackson, whose machine learning-powered ‘MAL Machine’ was used to recover John Lennon’s voice from a demo he recorded onto cassette tape while […]
It is fairly common knowledge in the creative community that Adobe has been looking at ways to use machine learning to optimise editing workflows in Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere. At its annual Adobe MAX creative conference, they teased work-in-progress “cutting-edge, experimental technologies that could someday become features in Adobe products“. Project Fast Fill for video […]