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Company co-founder Andrew Carr speaks about Cartwheel, a new AI animation tool developed with the help of Pixar animators and backed by Jeffrey Katzenberg.
The company, which says its software will do for animation what “the iPhone did for photography,” also announced the hiring of two veteran Pixar animators.
“TVPaint Animation was made as a traditional animation tool,” the developer said in a statement. “As such, our goals will always be directed toward hand-drawn animation.”
Developer Lost Marble says “this will continue to be our position, at least until potential ethical and legal issues are resolved in a way that does not harm artists.”
The first six tools help to create masks, upscale and extend backgrounds, and aid with the time-consuming scene setup process.
Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.
Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.
‘Flow’ director Gints Zilbalodis and plug-in developer Mārtiņš Upītis talk about the development of the water plug-in used to create the Golden Globe-winning film.
“The path generative AI is on is wrong for us,” the software maker said in a statement.
Pérez Irigoyen’s company Dessignare has found success with unconventional screen formats for animation in planetarium venues and virtual reality.
The experimental project developed by Autodesk AI Lab is not available for public use.
A Stability employee’s bot was caught scraping Midjourney text prompts and images, causing a 24-hour shutdown of the service.
Unreal will continue to be free for hobbyists, students, educators, and companies that earn less than $1 million in annual gross revenue.
Adobe design master and instructor Martin Perhiniak has posted a video featuring dozens of artists discussing their stances on AI.
The model is trained exclusively on footage of 2d platformer video games and can generate action-controllable 2d worlds.
Five companies were selected for Disney’s 10th Accelerator program. Three specialize in AI, one in VR, and another in autonomous vehicles.
Built on OpenAI’s Dall-E and GPT models, Sora can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames.
Autodesk senior engineering director Jeff Bell explains the benefits of the company’s new cloud-based asset management platform, Flow.
Apple has published a research paper which explains the advancements its making in the generative AI field with its Keyframer model.
The model’s creator admits its Stable Diffusion foundation is problematic, but says the public domain could provide answers to many ethical and legal questions about generative AI.