CB Livestream: Pixar Layoffs, AI In Animation Studios, and ‘Course Correction’ Needed At Disney?
We take a closer look at major stories happening in animation this month.
We take a closer look at major stories happening in animation this month.
Brown Bag Films head Cathal Gaffney is also calling for more transparency from other studios about how they intend to use AI in commercial production.
The Japanese feature ‘Who Said Death is Beautiful?’ used Stable Diffusion among other software in its production.
The U.S. animation industry might look bleak right now, but it could still get a lot worse.
The experimental project developed by Autodesk AI Lab is not available for public use.
China Media Group teamed with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to create a model trained on CMG’s audio and video libraries.
A Stability employee’s bot was caught scraping Midjourney text prompts and images, causing a 24-hour shutdown of the service.
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.
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.
The startling report makes one thing clear: generative AI is here today and wreaking havoc right now.
Lumiere advances the tech industry’s push to generate animation through artificial intelligence.
Developed by computer scientists at the University of Chicago, Nightshade confuses AI training models with bad data.
The Anime Chain Initiative believes that its blockchain-driven AI model will be financially beneficial to both AI users and the rightsholders of the training data.
In a roundtable, he added: “As an animation studio, I just think it’s important we protect the artists and the art form as long as we can.”
AI developers say it’s not their fault that their machine learning programs produce copyrighted material, even though they are the ones who trained their systems on copyrighted materials without permission.
The key issue: Microsoft’s AI image-creation tools were generating a Disney-Pixar logo.