{"id":24063,"date":"2026-06-06T15:57:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=24063"},"modified":"2026-06-06T15:58:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T22:58:18","slug":"puppetry-ai-ftw-behind-the-scenes-with-timmy-tpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/06\/puppetry-ai-ftw-behind-the-scenes-with-timmy-tpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Puppetry + AI FTW: Behind the Scenes with Timmy TPU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I <em>love<\/em> the blend old-school puppetry, 3D animation, Gemini Omni, and the latest experimental video tools that went into creating TPU Training Day, the short film that debuted during Google I\/O 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I know you&#8217;ve heard it a million times, but it bears repeating: <strong>AI isn&#8217;t a substitute<\/strong> for human creativity, or in many cases even for traditional techniques. It&#8217;s just <strong>a whole new toolbox<\/strong> that can multiply our expressive powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Puppets x AI | Behind the Scenes with Timmy TPU\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jHEEaQJxJyo?start=3&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And here&#8217;s the film itself:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TPU Training Day for  I\/O  \u201826\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dhI4djOVEmI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love the blend old-school puppetry, 3D animation, Gemini Omni, and the latest experimental video tools that went into creating TPU Training Day, the short film that debuted during Google I\/O 2026. I know you&#8217;ve heard it a million times, but it bears repeating: AI isn&#8217;t a substitute for human creativity, or in many cases [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,4,83],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24065,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24063\/revisions\/24065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}