filmmaking

AI is quietly becoming integral to Hollywood's VFX pipeline, with tools like Seedance 2.5 already outperforming classical methods for many shots, and the trend is expected to make AI-generated shots standard within three years.

A24 faces backlash from fans after announcing a $75 million AI research partnership with Google DeepMind to develop new filmmaking tools, seen as contradictory to the studio's hit film 'Backrooms' which critiques generative AI.

Google DeepMind and A24 announce a first-of-its-kind research partnership to develop AI tools and workflows for filmmakers, ensuring creators shape the technology of the future.

Log Cam is an iPhone app that records log and ProRes video from RAW frames.

GPT Image 2.0 demonstrates remarkably strong comprehension capabilities, understanding verbose prompts from a self-built director agent and generating decent results, highlighting the evolving role of filmmakers in the AI era.

Flick, a filmmaking platform founded by Zoey Z and Rui Cromwell, raised $6M and premiered its first Residency Film Series with 14 filmmakers and 13 films.

TrueShort has raised $12M in funding, led by Khosla Ventures, to hire the next generation of filmmakers.

Community discussion about AI video tools for pre-visualization and short-form content creation, exploring their limitations in controlled cinematography and practical filmmaking applications.

A social media discussion on cinematic visuals, exploring how to achieve a film-like aesthetic in creative projects.

Google DeepMind partnered with filmmaker Eliza McNitt and director Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup to create "ANCESTRA," a short film premiering at Tribeca Festival that combines live-action footage with AI-generated video using Veo. The project showcases new capabilities in personalized video generation, motion matching, and seamless blending of generative and live-action content.