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TVPaint TVPaint

TVPaint Assures Users Of Its Animation Software That It Will Not Add Generative AI Features

“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.”

By Amid Amidi | 2 months ago

Puffin Rock and the New Friends Puffin Rock and the New Friends

Moho Animation Software States That It Doesn’t Currently Plan To Develop AI Tools

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.”

By Amid Amidi | 2 months ago

Toon Boom Ember

Toon Boom Animation Launches Beta Program For Ember, A New Suite Of AI-Powered Productivity Tools

The first six tools help to create masks, upscale and extend backgrounds, and aid with the time-consuming scene setup process.

By Amid Amidi | 2 months ago

The Eclipse

‘The Eclipse’ Short Film Is A Magical Directorial Debut For Gabriel Schemoul

Schemoul, an animation industry artist in France, worked nights and weekends for nine months to create this stunning, dreamlike film.

By Joe Fordham | 3 months ago

Krumble TV

KrumbleTV Creator On Making Animated Films With Metahuman Creator

Using his unique production methods, the self-taught Russia-born, Texas-based animator is able to produce an entire animated short in one workday.

By Joe Fordham | 3 months ago

Flow

The Custom Blender Plug-in That Was Used To Create The Water Scenes In ‘Flow’ Is Now Available Publicly

‘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.

By Joe Fordham | 4 months ago

Procreate

Procreate Pledges To Avoid Generative AI Features In Its Apps

“The path generative AI is on is wrong for us,” the software maker said in a statement.

By Amid Amidi | 9 months ago

Jesús Pérez Irigoyen dome animation for Cosmonaute

In The Dome: Mexican Filmmaker Jesús Pérez Irigoyen Discusses His Adventures In Immersive VR And Dome Animation

Pérez Irigoyen’s company Dessignare has found success with unconventional screen formats for animation in planetarium venues and virtual reality.

By Joe Fordham | 11 months ago

Autodesk's Project Bernini

Autodesk Unveils Project Bernini, A New Generative AI Tool That Creates 3D Shapes

The experimental project developed by Autodesk AI Lab is not available for public use.

By Amid Amidi | 1 year ago

AI-rony: Midjourney Bans Stability AI Employees From Using Its Service In Fear They Are Scraping Its Data

A Stability employee’s bot was caught scraping Midjourney text prompts and images, causing a 24-hour shutdown of the service.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

The Voice in the Hollow

Epic Games Unveils New “Per Seat” Pricing For Non-Game Developers Using Unreal Engine

Unreal will continue to be free for hobbyists, students, educators, and companies that earn less than $1 million in annual gross revenue.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

AI Video Essay

Artists Share AI Experiences And Anxieties In New Video Essay: ‘AI Vs Artists – The Biggest Art Heist In History’

Adobe design master and instructor Martin Perhiniak has posted a video featuring dozens of artists discussing their stances on AI.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Genie

Google’s Genie AI Model Creates Video Game-Like Interactive Environments From Text And Image Prompts

The model is trained exclusively on footage of 2d platformer video games and can generate action-controllable 2d worlds.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Promethean AI

Disney’s 10th Accelerator Program Backs Trio Of AI Startups

Five companies were selected for Disney’s 10th Accelerator program. Three specialize in AI, one in VR, and another in autonomous vehicles.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Sora

OpenAI’s Sora Creates Minute-Long Photorealistic Animation From Text Prompts

Built on OpenAI’s Dall-E and GPT models, Sora can also take an existing video and extend it or fill in missing frames.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Autodesk Q&A

How Autodesk’s New Asset Management Platform Flow Evolves Cloud-Based Production Pipelines

Autodesk senior engineering director Jeff Bell explains the benefits of the company’s new cloud-based asset management platform, Flow.

By Joe Fordham | 1 year ago

Keyframer

Apple’s Keyframer AI Lets Users Generate Animation And Edit The Results With Additional Text Prompts

Apple has published a research paper which explains the advancements its making in the generative AI field with its Keyframer model.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Mickey-1928

This AI Model Is Trained On Public Domain Stills To Create Mickey Mouse Images

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.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Lumiere

Lumiere, Google’s New AI Model, Creates Fully-Animated Video From Text And Photo Prompts

Lumiere advances the tech industry’s push to generate animation through artificial intelligence.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

Nightshade

Artists Can Now Use Nightshade, A Tool That Corrupts Image-Generating AI Models, To Fight Theft

Developed by computer scientists at the University of Chicago, Nightshade confuses AI training models with bad data.

By Jamie Lang | 1 year ago

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