PJ Richardson Says [This 1 Thing] Was His Breakthrough

I spoke to PJ Richardson about what it takes to be successful over his 20+ year career at Laundry. Why he's not worried about AI and a mindset shift that helped his studio take off.
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We also talk candidly about addiction, imposter syndrome and how he maintains his curiosity and creativity.

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Wellbeing Check-in post GPT4o

The AI anxiety is real - people are seeing the writing on the wall - we all know where this is heading... or do we?
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Dave Officer gives a more balanced opinion and some ideas on how to cope with it all in this video:

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Midjourney V7 is out

Improved image quality, but we'd past the point of knowing what's real and what's not anyway. A bit disappointing in its improved Prompt Understanding compared to GPT4o that came out - and not good at generating text either.

GPT4o Can Make Full Print Ads

I've been experimenting using GPT4o to make mockup ads - it's shockingly good the first time you use it. With very basic prompts it produced these swimwear ads in varying styles

Runway AI Inc. launched Gen-4,

"With Gen-4, you are now able to precisely generate consistent characters, locations and objects across scenes. Simply set your look and feel and the model will maintain coherent world environments while preserving the distinctive style, mood and cinematographic elements of each frame. Then, regenerate those elements from multiple perspectives and positions within your scenes."
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I'd got a little bored of AI films but the level of control, style, and product placement makes me want to give it a go again. Check out this impressive short made with GEN-4:

[Director: Dion Lee]

Studio Ghilbi Trend is Awful, But This One Stands Out

Imagine having your lifes work reduced to a filter in Chat GPT - it especially feels like an fuck you when the original creator os so anti AI.
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This campaign from Greenpeace (is it real?) stood out though, it's the juxtaposition of shocking climate change scenes in a somewhat friendly and familiar style.

Get Your AI Art Published

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗽𝘁 𝗠𝗮𝗴𝗮𝘇𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 15 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘀 to take part in the upcoming May print issue with a dedicated double-page spread. Among them, 5 will be selected by 𝗖𝗼𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗮 to be celebrated through a special 𝗟𝗘𝗗 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝗰𝗮𝘀𝗲 during the 𝗔𝗜 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞 𝗙𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝗻 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻, 𝗠𝗮𝘆 13-14. DEADLINE 22 APRIL

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New training method allows AI to create a one-minute episode of Tom and Jerry

Karan Dalal @karansdalal Today, we're releasing a new paper – One-Minute Video Generation with Test-Time Training. We add TTT layers to a pre-trained Transformer and fine-tune it to generate one-minute Tom and Jerry cartoons with strong temporal consistency. Every video below is produced directly by 12:30 PM • Apr 7, 2025 926 Retweets 5421 Likes Read 179 replies

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