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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.

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.

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.

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.

Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Tech Launches Viewscreen Suite Of Real-Time Production Visualization Tools

Having used the tools on ‘The Orville’ and ‘Ted,’ MacFarlane says Viewscreen revolutionizes real-time production.

Tech Giants Say That Users Of Their Software Should Be Held Responsible For AI Copyright Infringements

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.

AI Will Cut Animation Labor And Production Time By 90% Says Former Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg

“In the good old days it took 500 artists five years to make a world-class animated movie. I think it won’t take 10% of that three years from now,” he claimed during a panel.

Move AI Raises $10 Million. Its Mo-Cap Animation Tech Requires Only An Iphone

The company’s aim is to “democratize 3d animation.”

Moho 14 Is Out Now With A New Graphics Engine

Powered by its new graphics engine, Moho features major revamps of its rigging and traditional animation tools.

Unity To Unveil Its Unity Weta Tools Division At SIGGRAPH 2023

One discission will focus on challenges involved in creating the characters of ‘The Sea Beast,’ and how they were overcome using Ziva VFX.

Stability AI Has Released Stable Animation SDK, A Text-To-Animation Tool

Users can can generate animation in one of three ways: text to animation, text input + initial image, or input video + text input.

Pixar’s Renderman 25 Is Available Now With Several Exciting Improvements

This update offers a new denoising technology developed by Disney Research, and which has been used on every Pixar film since ‘Toy Story 4.’

Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door Launches Tech Division To Market Viewscreen, Its Real-Time AR Production Tool

The new division will be headed by former Siri chief marketing officer Faith Sedlin.

Epic Games Unveils Metahuman Animator, A Potential Game Changer For Automated Facial Animation And Lip Sync

The new tech eliminates the need for bespoke facial motion capture technology, making it possible to accomplish with only an iPhone.

Dreamworks’ Rendering Software Moonray, Used On ‘Puss In Boots: The Last Wish’ And ‘The Bad Guys,’ Is Now Available Open Source

After being announced last year, Moonray was made available to the public today as open source for general access.

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