For 10 years or so I’ve been posting admiringly about the work of Paul Trillo (16 times so far; 17 now, good Lord), so I was excited to hear his conversation with the NYT Hard Fork crew—especially as he’s recently been pushing the limits with OpenAI’s Sora model. I think you’ll really enjoy this thoughtful, […]
Paul is continuing to explore what’s possible by generating short clips using Runway’s Gen-2 text-to-video model. Check out the melancholy existential musings of “Thank You For Not Answering”: And then, to entirely clear your mental palate, there’s the just deeply insane TRUCX!
In an interview on Vimeo, the filmmaker looks behind the scenes of making a crazy multi-phone archway to capture NYC street life: [Vimeo]
“Rather than removing them from the process, it actually allowed [the artists] to do a lot more—so a small team can dream a lot bigger.” Paul Trillo’s been killing it for years (see innumerable previous posts), and now he’s given a peek into how his team has been pushing 2D & 3D forward with the […]
Paul Trillo relentlessly redefines what’s possible in VFX—in this case scanning his back yard to tour a magical tiny world: Getting my hands dirty with 30 Gaussian splats scanned in my garden. Is this the most splats ever in a single shot? Made with the support of @Lenovo @Snapdragon and the new Gaussian Splatting plugin […]
I told filmmaker Paul Trillo that I’ve apparently blogged his work here more than a dozen times over the past 10 years—long before AI generation became a thing. That’s because he’s always been eager to explore the boundaries of what’s possible with any given set of tools. In “Notes To My Future Self,” he combines […]
Paul Trillo used Runway’s new Gen-1 experimental model to create a Cubist Simpsons intro: Meanwhile fabdream.ai salutes the power of love:
Last month Paul Trillo shared some wild visualizations he made by walking around Michelangelo’s David, then synthesizing 3D NeRF data. Now he’s upped the ante with captures from the Louvre: Over in Japan, Tommy Oshima used the tech to fly around, through, and somehow under a playground, recording footage via a DJI Osmo + iPhone:
In this beautiful work from Paul Trillo & co., AI extends—instead of replaces—human creativity & effort: Here’s a peek behind the scenes: This project would have never existed without the use of AI. A variety of tools were used from #dalle2 and #stablediffusion to generate the background assets Automatic1111 #img2img and @runwayml to process the […]
This stuff—creating 3D neural models from simple video captures—continues to blow my mind. First up is Paul Trillo visiting the David: Then here’s AJ from the NYT doing a neat day-to-night transition: And lastly, Hugues Bruyère used a 360º camera to capture this scene, then animate it in post (see thread for interesting details):
I meant to share this one last month, but there’s just no keeping up with the pace of progress! My initial results are on the uncanny side, but more skillful practitioners like Paul Trillo have been putting the tech to impressive use:
Here’s another beautiful, DALL•E-infused collaboration between VFX whiz Paul Trillo & Shyama Golden: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Paul Trillo (@paultrillo)
Paul Trillo is back at it, extending a Chinese restaurant via Stable Diffusion, After Effects, and Runway: Elsewhere, check out this mutating structure. (Next up: Falling Water made of actual falling water?)
Amazing work from the always clever Karen X. Cheng, collaborating with Paul Trillo & others: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Karen X (@karenxcheng) Speaking of Paul here’s a fun new little VFX […]
Malick Lombion & friends combined “more than 1,200 AI-generated art pieces combined with around 1,400 photographs” to create this trippy tour: View this post on Instagram A post shared by Malick Lombion | 🇨🇦Montreal Content Creator (@malick.fr) Elsewhere, After Effects ninja Paul Trillo is back at it with some amazing video-meets-DALL•E-inpainting work: I’m eager to […]
More wildly impressive inpainting & animation from Paul Trillo:
Creator Paul Trillo (see previous) is back at it. Here’s new work + a peek into how it’s made:
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Lovely work from director Paul Trillo: An ethereal flight over the ocean as mysterious colored smoke leaves its mark across the sky. A beautiful choreography between four drones simultaneously in flight and hundreds of smoke grenades. To learn more, watch the behind the scenes: [Vimeo 1 & 2][Via]
Paul Trillo worked with Nokia to rig up 50 Lumia 1020 cameras & capture dizzying slices of New York life, complete with snatches of audio. Here’s a peek behind the scenes: Elsewhere Jonas Ginter made a 360º tiny planet using an array of six GoPro cameras: [YouTube 1 and 2] [Via] [Vimeo] [Via]