AI Goes to Hollywood

Bi-weekly news commentary

Hey friend,

How are you? I hope you’re doing well.

Here is a news story I know you’ll find fascinating. Simply because it’s coming from the visual storytelling capital of the world.

The gist:

As you know, movies offer the ultimate expression of visual storytelling. So, like marketing to max attention, no wonder they ride on the latest shiny technology. Special effects in movies have undergone tremendous changes over the years. Imagine the early animation of physical objects in sci-fi movies in the ‘60s, IMAX 3D Theaters, and CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery), which seriously broke out in the ‘70s. A good example is Avatar (2009), which required an army of artists to perfect every pixel in each frame. Today, as this article reveals, AI in movies can produce remarkable results at a fraction of the cost and time. Yet, true storytelling is still one bridge too far—at least for now…

In my last story, I covered the landscape of AI Video Tools for marketing. Find out how AI affects visual storytelling production in movies. It carries a boatload of implications to your stories.