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Ellenor Argyropoulos says she used to get death threats over her AI filmmaking. She says the reaction has flipped in the space of about a year and a half, and now studios and well-known directors are the ones who brin…
Ruby takes a finished SDR clip and converts it up to 16-bit HDR, exporting ProRes files and EXR sequences instead of a flat 8-bit master. Runway says the model, announced on X, works on any uploaded video or generated…
Caroline Ingeborn thinks the AI industry sold creatives the wrong idea when it pushed them to become prompt engineers. The chief operating officer of Luma argues that skilled filmmakers should talk to an agent the way…
Atlas turns footage from a few ordinary cameras into a space-time capture that can freeze action and generate new viewpoints after filming. In its Atlas launch post, World Labs says the model reconstructs spatial stru…
World models had their biggest showing yet on this episode, and Atlas from World Labs is the one we kept rewinding. Feed it a few phones shooting ordinary video and it rebuilds the scene into a 3D space you can freeze…
Adobe announced a generative media tool for Premiere that lets editors select a gap in the timeline, describe the video or audio they need, and generate a clip the company says fits the surrounding shots. The same ann…
Danny Boyle used roughly 30 seconds of generative AI in Ink, his drama about the launch of The Sun, to animate a pair of old photographs and to add mice running through the tabloid's newsroom. He laid out the specific…
The Gemini API can now read long video by letting the model jump around the timeline and pull only the frames, audio, and transcript it needs, rather than sampling the whole clip up front. Google's video understanding…
Runway's Solaris renders an interactive interface as a live visual stream, generating each frame in response to clicks and drags instead of converting a design into code first. The company introduced it as its first I…
The platform where AI filmmakers find, fine-tune, and deploy open image and video models is set to change hands. Nvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9 billion, according to The Information, and neither compa…
Matriarch, the self-funded Los Angeles studio from Verena Puhm, is developing its own audience-response technology alongside its film and series slate rather than adding it to a traditional studio later. Puhm told Dea…
Disney named five growth-stage companies to its 2026 Accelerator cohort, and two of them build generative AI directly for film and series production: Promise and OpenArt. Both startups now enter a four-month program t…
Disney is putting digital creators on a Hollywood red carpet and opening its Burbank studio lot for a new two-day gathering called Created in LA. The event, which Disney describes as its fi
Netflix disclosed that generative AI workflows were used in roughly 300 of its titles in 2026, the clearest number the company has put on its production-side AI use so far. The figure app
Volinga has added 4D Gaussian Splatting support to its Unreal Engine workflow, letting animated splat captures play back in real time inside the engine.
The American Society of Cinematographers is releasing StEM3-VP , a set of open reference assets built to evaluate and calibrate in-camera visual effects stages, and the material is joining the Ac
Orbital Studios has relocated its headquarters and research lab to Television City, the 73-year-old former CBS lot in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles. The virtual product
Epic Games has added native Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to Unreal Engine 5.8, letting external AI agents operate the Unreal Editor directly. According to Epic's documentation , the
Aximmetry's MCP Server Lets AI Agents Build Virtual Production Scenes May 18, 2026 Aximmetry showed an upcoming MCP server at NAB that lets any AI agent operate its virtual production software through natural language. The company is targeting a summer release alongside the n
NVIDIA is positioning DGX Station as the local hardware base for an open agent stack that can run large models, govern their behavior, and call simulation tools inside Blender. Announced at SIGGRAPH , the
Canon announced the EOS R6 V , the first full-frame body in its video-focused EOS V series. The camera pairs a 32.5MP sensor with 7K Open Gate capture, built-in ac
Sony announced the Alpha 7R VI , the sixth generation of its high-resolution full-frame mirrorless line. The camera moves the R series onto a 66.8MP fully-stacked back-illu
Arc Eye's Modular Mobile Stand Collapses the Dome Scanner Into a Flat-Pack Rig May 07, 2026 Arc Eye CEO Christian Cicerone walked us through the company's new modular mobile capture rig at NAB, a battery-powered alternative to the company's large dome scanner that bre
iodyne is building storage hardware designed to bring the security, performance, and reliability of data center infrastructure to fast-moving production environments. At NAB 2026, the com
Blackmagic Design released DaVinci Resolve 21.1, a free update that connects AI assistants including Claude, Claude Code, and ChatGPT Codex to the editing application so editors can direct post-production work with pl…
Maxon is showing a first look at features planned for October across its Maxon One lineup, led by AI-powered relighting in Red Giant and procedural fur in Redshift. The preview of upcoming updates sits alongside capab…
Beeble launched SwitchX 2.0, an update to its video-to-video model that generates at native 4K in 10-bit color and handles shots up to 20 seconds. That pushes the tool past its 1080p output to finishing-length sequenc…
Strada lets remote video teams work with large files stored on local drives instead of first uploading them to centralized cloud storage. Creator and filmmaker Mark Fischbach, known as Markiplier, has made an investme…
Topaz Labs has released Hyperion 2.5, a new video model that converts 8-bit SDR footage into 10-bit ProRes or 16-bit EXR. The release gives colorists and VFX artists more data to push in a grade or composite, targetin…
We toured NantStudios' El Segundo campus to see the Dynamic Volume System, an LED volume that trades one fixed wall for modular "wall pods" that snap into different shapes. The stage can become a long arc, a tight cur…
A Yoruba-language sci-fi feature reached completion using AI for roughly 80% of its visuals, with human direction and live-action performance covering the rest. The result is a finished, more-than-three-hour hybrid-AI…
Michael Caine's Licensed AI Voice Narrates ElevenLabs' 13-Hour 'Odyssey' Audiobook June 23, 2026 ElevenLabs has released a roughly 13-hour AI-generated audiobook of Homer's The Odyssey through its ElevenReader app, narrated by a licensed AI replica of Michael
Inside Door G's Brand-First Virtual Production Pipeline: AI in Pre and Post, Not on the Wall May 13, 2026 A virtual production studio that doubles as an AI workflow shop is pitching brands on the idea that a shoot should leave behind a reusable digital asset, not a torn-down
Aronofsky-Produced AI Hybrid Short 'Goodnight, Lamby' Premieres at Cannes Classics May 16, 2026 Goodnight, Lamby , a live-action and animation hybrid short film produced by Darren Aronofsky's Primordial Soup and built in part with Google DeepMind's generative AI t
Christy Anzelmo says AI has reversed the way visual effects artists work. Instead of building an image step by step and refining as they go, compositors now start from the result they want and trace back to the data o…
AI models can take an image, generate an audio track, cut it into a video, and lip-sync a character in one automated pass. What they still can't do, according to Justine Moore, is judge whether any of it is good.
Background animators become lead animators. First-year lawyers become partners. Production assistants become producers. But if AI eliminates those entry-leve
'AI James Bond is Silicon Valley Tech A**hole Fantasy' How Platform Builders See AI Adoption in Film Industry at AFM November 14, 2025 "The idea that we'll just make new James Bond movies with Sean Connery is a fantasy of Silicon Valley tech assholes," says
This episode of Denoised starts with a simple test that lands somewhere bigger: feeding a handful of cell-phone photos to OpenAI's Codex and asking it to reconstruct a real building in Blender.
This week runs from the practical to the existential: a new image model that edits from annotations, Meta walking back an opt-out AI feature after public backlash, MCP arriving inside Unreal E
We got back from Google I/O with hands-on access to Omni, Google's new video world model, and we pitted it against Runway Aleph 2 on identical source footage. On the Denoised podcast, we break down what
This episode of Denoised pulls together two threads from AI on the Lot: studios committing real money to AI production pipelines, and a box office weekend where a $750,000 horror film outgrossed Th
The latest Denoised covers the AI tools and stories shaping mid-2026 production: an open-source pipeline that builds full 3D scenes from a single image, Netflix's new in-house GenAI
