{"id":23523,"date":"2026-01-30T01:04:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23523"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T09:04:44","slug":"genlit-enables-animated-relighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/30\/genlit-enables-animated-relighting\/","title":{"rendered":"GenLit enables animated relighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;m excited to learn more about <a href=\"https:\/\/genlit.is.tue.mpg.de\/\">GenLit<\/a>, about which its creators say,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Given a single image and the 5D lighting signal, GenLit creates a video of a moving light source that is <em>inside<\/em> the scene. It moves around and behind scene objects, producing effects such as shading, cast shadows, secularities, and interreflections with a realism that is hard to obtain with traditional inverse rendering methods.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Video diffusion models have strong implicit representations of 3D shape, material, and lighting, but controlling them with language is cumbersome, and control is critical for artists and animators.<\/p>\n<p>GenLit connects these implicit representations with a continuous 5D control\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ulo0BNOCTd\">pic.twitter.com\/ulo0BNOCTd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael Black (@Michael_J_Black) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Michael_J_Black\/status\/2000385099742028038?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m excited to learn more about GenLit, about which its creators say, Given a single image and the 5D lighting signal, GenLit creates a video of a moving light source that is inside the scene. It moves around and behind scene objects, producing effects such as shading, cast shadows, secularities, and interreflections with a realism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[66,75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23523"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23525,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23523\/revisions\/23525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}