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
This Denoised covers the NAB tools that did not make our initial coverage and the wave of Claude integrations that landed across creative software. We walk through Lightcraft Spark
Val Kilmer's AI Return, Actors Training AI Improv, and Why Google Stitch Has Figma Nervous March 23, 2026 Val Kilmer is starring in a film he never shot. Improv actors are selling their emotions at $74 an hour. An AI Andy Cohen is interviewing real people on Peacock. And Goog
This week's Denoised covers eight stories spanning space cameras, open-source AI for post-production, unreleased image models, and the growing tension
ComfyUI's CEO on Control, Adoption, and Why the Tool Won't Be Acquired March 12, 2026 The latest Denoised covers ComfyUI's evolution from a two-week open-source project to a 4-million-user platform that's becoming a job requirement across the industry. We got to s
Netflix acquired Ben Affleck's stealth AI company InterPositive, Corridor Crew released an open-source green screen keyer, and Lightricks shipped LTX-2.3 with a full desktop video
Google's Nano Banana 2 Brings Pro Features to the Budget Tier—With Web Search Built In March 03, 2026 Google's Nano Banana 2 lands as a cheaper, web-connected alternative to Nano Banana Pro, and we put both models through side-by-side tests to figure out where each one fi
Three Open-Source Image Models, Nuke's AI Play, and Google's Music Surprise February 23, 2026 Three new open-source image models, a major VFX acquisition, and a music generator that inferred our identities from almost no context. We test FireRed, Recraft V4, and ByteDance
The latest Denoised covers three stories that capture the current state of AI filmmaking: a practical tool that might actually fit into existing workflows, a powerful model raising serious copyright
Three Bets on AI's Future: Genie's Worlds, OpenClaw's Agents, and Kling's Video February 12, 2026 The latest Denoised covers three stories that define where AI is heading in 2026: a generative world model that creates persistent environments, an open-source agent
In this week’s episode of Denoised, Addy breaks down what a LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation) is and why creative teams should care. He uses a simple metaphor to make the mechanics intuitive, then moves through
In this week’s episode of Denoised, Joey and Addy stage a practical showdown between two ways to capture a film's cinematography in pre-production: training a LoRA on Z-Image versus feeding reference images int
In this week’s Denoised roundup, Joey walks through Claude Cowork and a slate of other updates that matter to filmmakers, VFX artists, and creative teams. Other stori
CES 2026: Fuji's Fake 8mm Camera, LEGO Smart Bricks, Atlas Robot, and More January 12, 2026 In this week’s episode of Denoised, Addy and Joey break down that camera and a short list of other CES highlights that matter to filmmakers and content creators: Fujifilm's instax
In this week's episode of Denoised, Addy and Joey lay out a roadmap of expectations for 2026 , arranging forecasts into three buckets: super confident , very likely , and long shots . Their conversation move
In this week’s episode of Denoised, Addy breaks down a practical workflow for building a hybrid live-action short that pairs a real actor with a fully synthetic creature. The seg
In this week’s episode of Denoised, Addy breaks down a practical, start-to-finish AI film pipeline used to create a short cinematic western sequence. The rundown moves through the toolset
Addy and Joey break down a fast-moving batch of AI releases that matter to filmmakers and creators. The headline is Wan 2.6 — a major commercial push toward higher-fideli
Disney's Billion Dollar AI Deal with OpenAI and Sora December 13, 2025 McDonald's Netherlands released a holiday spot described as "the most terrible time of the year," then pulled it after an immediate wave of criticism. In this episode of Denoised, hosts Addy
In this week’s episode of Denoised, Addy and Joey break down Kling O1’s multimodal video-to-video capabilities and how it stacks up against Runway Aleph and other tools. The hosts then move throug
