🎬 The full Inside the AI Studio series is now live...and the trailer just dropped. Filmed at @aionthelot, this 12-part series features conversations with the creative minds shaping the future of AI in filmmaking. We dive into: • How AI is actually being used on real productions • New workflows for VFX, previs, editing, and animation • How creators are training custom models for storytelling • Where the tools are headed next - and how fast and a lot more Featuring: Amit Jain at Luma AI @gravicle / @lumalabsai Andrew Hevia at Fabula @andrew_hevia / @fabula_prod Davide Bianca at GRAiL Edward Dawson-Taylor at CG Pro @becomecgpro Eliot Mack at Lightcraft Technology @lightcraftpro Kavan The Kid at Phantom X @kavanthekid / @phantomx_ai Max Einhorn at Gennie @maxeinhorn / @genniestudio Michael Lingelbach at Hedra @mjlbach / @hedra_labs Michaela Ternasky-Holland at MTH Studio @ImMichaelaTH Monji Batmunkh at Topaz Labs @monjibatmunkh / @topazlabs Parag Mital at The Garden in the Machine @pkmital Reza Sixo Safai at Massive Studios @rezawrecktion / @ai_massive ▶️ Watch the full series → youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

It's like a cinema colonoscopy

This weekend is a future 30 for 30 doc

Knicks win is cool and all but this is 🤌

Waymo went from pleasant to crap experience really fast. Past ride the car was dirty. Current ride the AC doesn’t work. Support isn’t empowered to do any type or refund. Fun while it lasted

Never cared about popcorn buckets until now

Buried the lede ❤️

Google just dropped Gemini Omni, their latest video model. Think of it as the video version of Nano Banana, not a Veo 4 successor, but a conversational, multi-modal layer for video editing and generation. The highlights (from the release): ▸ Video to video editing ▸ Character & style consistency ▸ World knowledge. Inherits Gemini’s grasp of history, physics, biology, and culture. Strong text rendering too. ▸ Natural language camera control ▸ Avatars. Scan yourself in the Gemini app, drop yourself into any scene. My findings from a few days of quick testing: ▸ Video quality and realism stepped up, but still trails Kling and Seedance ▸ Image-to-character likeness is weak. Feeding it a reference image of a person doesn’t reliably hold the face. ▸ Video-to-video works…ish. It preserves most elements of the source scene, but my transformation tests came back conservative. It’s not aggressively reimagining the input. ▸ The standout is avatars. H/t to @venturetwins for surfacing this, it’s buried in the Gemini UI. You scan your face, say a few numbers, and it builds an avatar you can drop into scenes. Quality from a quick iPhone capture was genuinely impressive. The open question: why? This feels aimed at the void Sora left behind, but is there a void there? Right now the avatar feature is locked to yourself. No social sharing, no pulling up other people’s avatars even with consent. Once the API comes out, I’ll be curious what full inputs you can give the model and if it has the same web search toggle Nano Banana has to source live data. What do you think? #googleio

Thanks Google! See you next week at #GoogleIO

Wasn’t this Tunisia?

Foundry’s Juan Salazar unpacks the company’s acquisition of Griptape, highlighting how its Python-based orchestration system coordinates AI agents and metadata across Nuke and Nuke Stage. youtu.be/sTOKiJRe0Nk?si=vuZl…

Bring back the unedited Nicole video

this might be what i finally need to quit arc

This lunar mission is the best advertising GoPro has had in years

$4 billion spent on Artemis II and they're using t-shirts to block out window glare. This window hoodie for cameras is $15

Artemis II flyby is awesome, but even more enjoyable is all this camera talk on figuring out how to get the best glare free shots of the moon

Church:

Not outright calling it Big Foot. Keeping the Skunk Ape dream alive

is it bad i knew which erewhon this is based on the layout?

One step closer…