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 new & traditional methods to make a haunting, melancholy meditation:

And here he provides an illuminating 1-minute peek into the processes that helped him create all this in just over a week’s time:

Can AI create better VFX? Lots of VFX don’t look great because they don’t know what they’re lighting to on set. Using a variety of AI tools, we can now move fluidly between pre and post. BGs made with stable diffusion, Photoshop Gen Fill, Magnific, Krea and Topaz and Runway Gen-2 pic.twitter.com/DLyA60XaUB

— Paul Trillo (@paultrillo) April 26, 2024