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Remember waiting 45 minutes for a render? Fillip Isgro does. In this clip from the CG Pro Show, he describes watching an image slowly emerge from pure noise, one pixel at a time. You'd stare at the screen wondering if it was going to work, then suddenly a face would appear and you'd know the render was going to be good. What's fascinating is that today's AI image models work in a surprisingly similar way. They're literally generating images from noise. The process is faster. The quality is higher. But the feeling is still the same. As Fillip puts it: "It's magic." Watch the full conversation with Andrew Cochrane and Edward Dawson-Taylor here: https://hubs.li/Q04jpG_d0 #cgproshow #AI #GenerativeAI #VFX #Filmmaking #ComputerGraphics #CGPro

Excited to be speaking at AI on the Lot in Los Angeles this week alongside Andrew Cochrane and Edward Dawson-Taylor. We're running a Workshop/Lecture session on Rapid VFX in Virtual Production — Thursday at 11 AM PT in "the Lab" or Stage 9. Yes, there will be AI in it. 😉 If you're there, come find us. It's one of the best rooms in the industry to have these conversations.

Last week to join AI for Filmmakers. There’s a lot of noise around AI right now. What matters is whether you can actually build workflows, make projects, and adapt your filmmaking process in a practical way. This is what former student and VFX Supervisor Erik Durst had to say after taking the course. If you’ve been waiting to dive in, now’s the time. 🎬 AI for Filmmakers Live + hands-on + project focused https://hubs.li/Q04hKyK30 #AI #Filmmaking #VFX #UnrealEngine #ComfyUI #VirtualProduction #AIForFilmmakers

We just hit Episode 100 of the CG Pro Podcast, and we couldn't think of a better guest to mark the milestone than Alvy Ray Smith, co-founder of Pixar. Alvy has a fascinating thesis: sometime around the year 2000, every media type,film, videotape, audio, quietly disappeared and became digital. He calls it the Great Digital Convergence, and argues it's the foundational event that nobody celebrated... and that it's the very thing that made today's AI revolution possible. "All facts became bits. Computers could then mess around in an infinity of bits and find the patterns there that nobody's seen before." If you work in film, VFX, or production, this one's essential listening. Alvy also breaks down what a pixel actually is, and why almost everyone has it wrong. 🎙️ Watch Episode 100 → https://hubs.li/Q04hx4J10 Edward Dawson-Taylor

Only FIVE MORE DAYS until our next Unreal LA event where we will be celebrating the start of AI on the Lot with a pair of amazing speakers working at the intersection of Unreal and some of the most innovative new tech available! Geoffrey Kater, owner and senior creative director at S4 Studios, will present on the integration of Unreal Engine into projects at the ICVFX Stage in Burbank. Joining him is Arvin Tehrani, CEO of Contrast Reality Labs, who will discuss the development of a custom, Unreal-compatible Gaussian Splat FX system using Houdini to simulate effects with splats. As always, light snacks, refreshments, and good times are guaranteed, so make sure to reserve your spot today at the following link: https://lnkd.in/g44xn4Cs Big big thanks to Jacqueline Cooper and Edward Dawson-Taylor at CG Pro and Cameron Kostopoulos with Fermata for being great partners in this endeavor!

One of the more interesting conversations from this week’s CG Pro Show centered around Creative Technologist Fillip Isgro discussing AI removing people from scenes automatically. What stood out wasn’t simply the removal itself, but how convincingly the environment was reconstructed afterward. The broader implications started becoming interesting pretty quickly: 🎬 Gaussian Splats 🧩 virtual production ⚡ environment capture 🎨 AI-assisted cleanup and reconstruction workflows It feels like AI is continuing to move beyond generation and further into production infrastructure. If you want to explore where these workflows are heading, we’re hosting a free webinar this Wednesday covering practical AI filmmaking workflows, camera/layout control, ComfyUI, and production-minded applications. May 21st • 12pm PT https://hubs.li/Q04h1J7V0 #AI #Filmmaking #VFX #ComfyUI #VirtualProduction #GaussianSplats #CGPro

I just wanted to share the final sizzle reel for our AI for Filmmakers Cohort 3 Graduates! The level of skill and creativity involved not only in the final projects but also in creating new working pipelines in Weavy and ComfyUI was fantastic, and way beyond prompts. So help me share their work by giving their video a like/comment. :) https://lnkd.in/gHnHtJFf

One of the most interesting shifts happening in AI filmmaking right now is that access to powerful tools is rapidly becoming universal. Which means the conversation increasingly moves toward something else: craft. Not simply generating images, but understanding: 🎬 visual storytelling 🎥 cinematography ✂️ editing and pacing 🎨 direction and consistency ⚡ creative control This short piece touches on some of the broader ideas we’ll be discussing live in today’s webinar on practical AI filmmaking workflows and production-minded applications. 🗓 Thurs 5/21 • 12pm PT Register free: https://hubs.li/Q04h3dCr0 And if you'd like to see what our previous cohort created together: https://hubs.li/Q04h3JN70 #AI #Filmmaking #VFX #ComfyUI #CGPro