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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thishttps://lnkd.in/eyiUBcAG A study in New York living—somewhere between a studio and a one-bedroom. This alcove residence on the Upper West Side offers a quietly intelligent layout—where space is not simply defined, but considered. A tucked-away sleeping alcove creates separation and flow, while the main living area remains open, light-filled, and distinctly New York. 📍 255 W 85th St #5A 💰 $699,000 CC $1,091 | Taxes $945 | Assessment $212 Moments from tree-lined streets, cultural landmarks, and the rhythm of the Upper West Side—this is a home that balances function, proportion, and lifestyle with understated ease. Thank you Leslie for hosting 🤍 For private inquiries, please contact me directly. — Cindy Kwok @cindykwokre CindyKwokRE.com https://lnkd.in/eyiUBcAG #CindyKwokRealEstate #UpperWestSideLiving #ManhattanRealEstate #NYCRealEstate #ArchitecturalDigestStyle #ADStyle #DesignForward #CityRefined #UrbanElegance #NYCLiving #ManhattanHomes #LuxuryLifestyleNYC #NYCInteriors #TimelessDesign #ElevatedLiving #NewYorkHomes #MinimalLuxury #CuratedSpaces #NYCRealtor #BuyWithCindyKwok #YourNextHomeAwaits #nycApt Tour on the Upper West Side with Cindy Kwok Real Estate AgentApt Tour on the Upper West Side with Cindy Kwok Real Estate Agent
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisWhat happens when you give a director with Pixar and ILM experience full control over an AI animation pipeline? Spoiler: nobody was sitting around typing descriptions into a text box. On Star Rifter, every shot was driven by acting performances captured on phones, 3D camera blocking in Maya, trained character models built from hand-refined designs, and art-directed master keyframes that locked the look before animation began. Director-first, all the way through. Colin Brady brought feature-film animation instincts to every frame, and none of that was negotiable. Eye lines, performance nuance, composition. He acted out scenes himself, recruited his daughter, and built a puppet to choreograph an alien sidekick. The conditions were scrappy, but the bar was high. The AI handled the rendering, simulation, and environmental detail. The humans handled the soul. We broke down the full pipeline in a new case study, from pre-production through delivery, including how Floyo gave the team a shared layer for collaborating around open-source workflows. The workflows are actually runnable right on the page, so you can try them yourself. We’re also going deeper on all of this live in LA on April 17 with Colin, hosted by Floyo and Alibaba Cloud / Wan with Xavier Lou Michael Montoya Fajin H. Ashna S Case study, runnable workflows, and event details: https://lnkd.in/gbp2gxXA
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisDon't think she needs an intro, but she is the most dedicated, multi-talented, keen-eye vfx supe around. You'll be in the best hands with Eva.Jeffrey Dates reposted thisHi everyone, Due to recent layoffs at ARC Creative, my role was impacted. I’m grateful to have worked with so many talented artists and to have been part of the work we created together. I’m now exploring what’s next and open to new opportunities. Onwards and upwards! I’m starting to look for my next role. If you know of any opportunities or would like to reconnect, I’d love to hear from you. Thanks so much for keeping me in mind. #OpenToWork About me & what I’m looking for ▪️ Visual Effects Supervisor / VFX Shoot Supervisor / CG Lead / CG Lighting Artist ▪️ Open to opportunities in New York and remote ▪️ 20+ years in the VFX industry, previously at The Mill, Glassworks, Time Based Arts, Sehsucht, and Arc Creative ▪️ German & British citizen, U.S. Green Card holder
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisAny 2D Video into Volumetric 4DGS (New Free Tool) I’ve built a new free software tool based on the Apple Sharp model that converts standard 2D video into volumetric 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) video. The best part? The generation is incredibly fast, and you don’t need a supercomputer to run it. ⚠️ Important: I am providing this software "as is." This is an R&D project that I’m sharing with the community. Feel free to fork it, improve it, and adapt it to your needs. The "Free" vs. "Pro" Difference: While this tool is fun for experiments, it has limitations. This Free Tool: 1 minute of 4DGS = ~90 GB. It’s also quite noisy. Professional Service: If you need high-end, highly optimized 4DGS for XR/VR headsets, contact me. With Gracia we deliver 1 minute of 4DGS at just 1-2 GB with clean, production-ready quality. 💻 How to get the Free Tool: 1. Windows Executable (.exe): Download the pre-built version here. Note: It takes a long time to launch because it has to load the heavy Apple Sharp data. It might not work on every machine (I only tested it on mine). 👉 https://lnkd.in/daJ8KdyA 2. Source Code (GitHub): Want to run it on Linux/Mac or fix bugs? Here is the repo. Tip: Even if you don't know how to code, you can easily install and run this using the Cursor Agent. 👉 https://lnkd.in/d58yUBqt Big thanks to @Bernardo A. for the original idea! Need Professional 4DGS? If you want to skip the R&D headaches and get optimized, lightweight volumetric video for your Virtual Production or VR project, let’s talk. 📅 Book a call: https://lnkd.in/drq3iWY4 🔗 Connect: https://lnkd.in/gq_RenVs #4DGS #VolumetricVideo #AppleSharp #OpenSource #RND #GaussianSplatting #VirtualProduction #TechInnovation #FreeSoftware #VFX #AndriiShramko #ShramkoVR
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisThe perfect node doesn’t exi— ... spidey reroute node: https://lnkd.in/eMRgF9nu #ComfyUI #Ai #GenerativeAI
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisIndia’s 1st AI Film Fest — and the winner is Bharat Parmat's Horror Folklore short, with it's gorgeous cinematography Directors notes: Took a 1 week to make, with readily available tools: WAN Animate, Flux, Flux Kontext, Kling 2.5, Suno, Eleven Labs, Seeedream, Nano Banana and QWEN Image Edit 2509. Directed by Bharat Parmat: Music & Sound Design: Nimish Choubey Helping Tech Hands: Aashish Bansal #AI #generativeAI
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Jeffrey Dates shared thisSo in 2018 I Directed 8 spots for the Chantix campaign starring the Chantix Turkey. Today I learned the Chantix Turkey is back, this time with some Fan Fiction! 😂 Bob Pirrmann
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisThe next big thing to add to your open-source stack is Wan-Animate, Just released : Wan2.2-Animate-14B A unified model for character animation and replacement — think of it like Act2, but open-source. The weights have been released, and I’ll share the link in the comments. You can try it at Wan.video .. and Comfy support on it's way. #Ai #GenerativeAI #Filmmaking
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Jeffrey Dates reposted thisJeffrey Dates reposted thisSharing a use case I have been working on for use AI for Comp passes such AOVs. Enabling Relight for Alexa footage. Models are available for download here: https://lnkd.in/daUardSQ Why Relight is such a big deal? Be able to relight footage also enable us to relight AI elements such Video generation or images. That way is possible to better merge those together with projects light and moods.
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisThanks for the conversation Advertising Week! https://lnkd.in/evShTg-fJeffrey Dates liked thisVersus ECD and founding partner Justin Barnes joined Advertising Week’s Agency Alchemy podcast to discuss the evolving intersection of brand storytelling, entertainment, and AI. The conversation explores how brands can create “ownable originality” in a world saturated with content, why taste and perspective matter more than ever, and how Versus approaches building culturally resonant work that people actually connect with. Justin also shares how AI is being integrated inside the modern creative studio, not as a replacement for creativity, but as a tool to accelerate ideas, streamline production, and push craft further. From large-scale experiential campaigns to mixed-media storytelling for brands like Volkswagen and The Walt Disney Company, this episode dives into the future of creative work and what it takes to stand out when everyone has access to the same tools. Listen to the conversation here! - https://lnkd.in/gbxcsz8t Justin Barnes Robert Meyers Samantha Louise K.C. Gulino Luis Aguirre Kevin Sypek Kathryn Henderson Jay Harwood Brian Sanford David Edelstein Justin O. Tom Colabraro Mark Grande Steven Lambiase Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani Marc Fusco Betsy Watson Tony Kadillak Desirée Abeyta Izabella Davis Carrie Spott Stockmal Steven Weinzierl Chris Martinez Michele Fino Jeffrey Dates Jon Lerner
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisHuge day for Wolf Games - and for the gaming industry writ large. Before today, games were monuments - huge projects made by hundreds of people over the course of years. Games were fixtures, experiences you'd buy, collect, return to. That's changing. Now, games can be made to order, served up hot. Games can be alive. Games can be bespoke. Games can be targeted, timely, and topical. The game can be *about* what you care about, it can be *about* what's going on in the world, and it can be *about* who you are and how you fit into that world. Games can now be a conversation between the designers and the players, an ongoing, shifting, evolving dialog. Now games can live where you live, as easily embedded as a Youtube video or Instagram post. Games can make the environment *around them* more fun, more engaging more rewarding, more fun to return to. It's a tiny shift, but one that's going to shift the entire entertainment world. This is our debut title. We've got hundreds more about to be unleashed. This is the start of the next chapter in gaming. Big thanks to our team - Elliot Wolf and Andrew A., the best partners I could dream of working with, plus all of our engineers and creatives who've been dedicating their lives to this new way of bringing ideas to audiences. Huge shout out to our partners Michael Scogin for endlessly championing this vision, and Raul Salcedo and Alejandra (Ale) Flores (!!) for bringing it to life and getting it in front of audiences. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gQiW-xfR
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisHuge Congrats to the Pulse Of Perseverance Project (P3) and SixDegrees.Org teams on the Telly Awards win! We are so proud to have been part of this important project! Justin Barnes Robert Meyers Samantha Louise K.C. Gulino Luis Aguirre Kevin Sypek Kathryn Henderson Clark Slater Jay Harwood Brian Sanford David Edelstein Justin O. Tom Colabraro Mark Grande Steven Lambiase Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani Marc Fusco Betsy Watson Tony Kadillak Desirée Abeyta Izabella Davis Carrie Spott Stockmal Steven Weinzierl Chris Martinez Michele Fino Jeffrey Dates Jon Lerner Kevin AndersonJeffrey Dates liked thisP3 won a Telly Award. Our team is overjoyed by this recognition, the Telly Awards is a premier global competition that celebrates excellence across every type of screen. As you can imagine, this latest award spotlights our digital campaign: Re:framing Mentorship. 🏆 Since 1979, the Telly Awards receive over 13,000 entries every year.. which is a testament to the brilliant Emmy-award winning team at VERSUS, and our dear friends at SixDegrees.Org. www.pulseofp3.org Max Madhere MD, Pierre Johnson, MD, FACOG, Joseph Semien, M.D., FACOG, Orelia Lawdins-Trent, Vondale Singleton, Tenny Ahn, George Christo-Baker, CEPA®, SE-AWMA™, Clark Slater, Tom Colabraro, David Edelstein, Justin Barnes, Robert Meyers, Kathryn Henderson, Lisa Pratt, Richard Klopp, Brian Lamar Alexander, J.D., Stacy Huston, Michael Gewirtzman, Rachel Young, Jamie L. Enge, Ph.D., Damien Howard, Johari Shuck, Ph.D., Paul Murphy, Alex Strand, Kareem K.W.O.E. Wells, Sylvester Johnson, J.J. El-Far, and many more P3 friends.
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisHow to create a "miniature person" sequence with Seedance 2.0. This breakdown shows the process of adapting a skateboarding concept into a snowboarding scene inside a freezer using ComfyUI. Try the workflow + prompt → link below Seedance 2.0 https://lnkd.in/gqdnzfNM Nano Banana 2 https://lnkd.in/gZFd-XUb
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisA test of Ozone Story Tech 's new subdivision tool for UE. Doing stuff like this is murder with a full mesh! Rich Hurrey Brad Clark https://lnkd.in/eCfpJBps
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisLast night’s weekly AI & Innovation workshop at the Versus office brought the team together to preview new tools we’ve built and how they are being applied to push creativity and craft across current projects. We’re often asked where and how AI shows up in our work, and we LOVE that question. Invisible, integrated, and in service of OUR ideas and the stories we tell. When talented humans work alongside AI and innovation, nothing is impossible. Justin Barnes Robert Meyers Samantha Louise K.C. Gulino Luis Aguirre Kevin Sypek Kathryn Henderson Jay Harwood Brian Sanford David Edelstein Justin O. Tom Colabraro Mark Grande Steven Lambiase Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani Marc Fusco Betsy Watson Tony Kadillak Desirée Abeyta Izabella Davis Carrie Spott Stockmal Steven Weinzierl Chris Martinez Michele Fino Jeffrey Dates Jon Lerner
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisOpen AI just released their new flagship image model called "GPT Image 2" and to test it out I made this short called "Model Extraction." To me, the most important advancement here is how it handles rendering text. This film only breifly showcases it's capabilities but I was impressed by the clarity of the text on the terminal and on the virtual HUD at the end. Also to be fair the video model kind of messes with the text in it's own way. If you want to learn more about the model and how I put together this short, I made a full breakdown on the fal YouTube channel - https://lnkd.in/eakC3GVk
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Jeffrey Dates liked thisJeffrey Dates liked thisAs an Unreal Engine developer and filmmaker I've been experimenting with a lot of generative AI tools. I'm happy to showcase a new image model called "PATINA" that can generate 8K seamless PBR textures from a text prompt or image. This is a REALLY simple example in Unreal Engine but I think it's clear how powerful and empowering a tool like this is for artists. For simple projects this could be the final texture but if you are a professional environment artist this could just be a starting point or an extra material you blend together with others. The model is available now on fal and 1K textures cost less than 10 cents. Direct link in comments.
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Versus
Partnered with Versus as a Creative Director on innovation projects for the Originals department.
These projects focus on animated real-time characters and generative AI workflows. I established and developed a real-time character pipeline for use in animated productions across multiple verticals. Additionally, I'm creating original animated IP utilizing real-time production techniques. -
Wolf Games
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Working as Creative Director at Wolf Games where world-class game design meets cutting-edge storytelling to create the future of entertainment. Our cinematic, generative games deliver deeply immersive, personalized stories that you can play every day.
Our first game, Public Eye, takes you into a near-future where violent crime is spiraling and police departments enlist the public to help solve murder cases. Check out the teaser trailer below and sign up for our waitlist to be among the first…Working as Creative Director at Wolf Games where world-class game design meets cutting-edge storytelling to create the future of entertainment. Our cinematic, generative games deliver deeply immersive, personalized stories that you can play every day.
Our first game, Public Eye, takes you into a near-future where violent crime is spiraling and police departments enlist the public to help solve murder cases. Check out the teaser trailer below and sign up for our waitlist to be among the first to play: www.wolfgames.net
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