{"id":23843,"date":"2026-04-11T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=23843"},"modified":"2026-04-11T10:51:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T17:51:04","slug":"veo-the-making-of-ancestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/11\/veo-the-making-of-ancestra\/","title":{"rendered":"Veo &#038; the making of &#8220;Ancestra&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Honestly, in taking my new role at Google &amp; working to bring Veo and other models to creators, it&#8217;ll likely be hard to focus on the more boring bits (which, as with every job, will certainly be there) when storytellers like Darren Aronofsky &amp; Eliza McNitt are pushing the limits of the tech &amp; all I want to do is dive in up to my eyeballs. \ud83d\ude42 But, as they say, that&#8217;s a good problem to have, and I look forward to learning more over time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, check out this look into the making of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HEs9miwtwh4\">ANCESTRA<\/a>, made by Eliza (and team) about her own birth:<\/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=\"The Making of ANCESTRA | Darren Aronofsky x Google DeepMind\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WLDARkKs-T4?start=2&#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>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=\"ANCESTRA by Eliza McNitt\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HEs9miwtwh4?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>Honestly, in taking my new role at Google &amp; working to bring Veo and other models to creators, it&#8217;ll likely be hard to focus on the more boring bits (which, as with every job, will certainly be there) when storytellers like Darren Aronofsky &amp; Eliza McNitt are pushing the limits of the tech &amp; all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843"}],"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=23843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23846,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23843\/revisions\/23846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}