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Vimeo Enters into Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Bending Spoons for $1.38 Billion
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ByteDance Seedream 4.0 – Super‑fast, 4K, multi image support
https://seed.bytedance.com/en/seedream4_0
➤ Super‑fast, high‑resolution results : resolutions up to 4K, producing a 2K image in less than 1.8 seconds, all while maintining sharpness and realism.
➤ At 4K, cost as low as 0.03 $ per generation.
➤ Natural‑language editing – You can instruct the model to “remove the people in the background,” “add a helmet” or “replace this with that,” and it executes without needing complicated prompts.
➤ Multi‑image input and output – It can combine multiple images, transfer styles and produce storyboards or series with consistent characters and themes. -
OpenAI Backs Critterz, an AI-Made Animated Feature Film
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-backs-ai-made-animated-feature-film-389f70b0
Film, called ‘Critterz,’ aims to debut at Cannes Film Festival and will leverage startup’s AI tools and resources.
“Critterz,” about forest creatures who go on an adventure after their village is disrupted by a stranger, is the brainchild of Chad Nelson, a creative specialist at OpenAI. Nelson started sketching out the characters three years ago while trying to make a short film with what was then OpenAI’s new DALL-E image-generation tool. -
AI and the Law: Anthropic to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Book Piracy Class Action Lawsuit
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/anthropic-class-action-settlement-billion-1236509571
The settlement amounts to about $3,000 per book and is believed to be the largest ever recovery in a U.S. copyright case, according to the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
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Sir Peter Jackson’s Wētā FX records $140m loss in two years, amid staff layoffs
https://www.thepost.co.nz/business/360813799/weta-fx-posts-59m-loss-amid-industry-headwinds
Wētā FX, Sir Peter Jackson’s largest business has posted a $59.3 million loss for the year to March 31, an improvement on an $83m loss last year.
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59 AI Filmmaking Tools For Your Workflow
https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/ai-filmmaking-tools-for-filmmakers
- Runway
- PikaLabs
- Pixverse (free)
- Haiper (free)
- Moonvalley (free)
- Morph Studio (free)
- SORA
- Google Veo
- Stable Video Diffusion (free)
- Leonardo
- Krea
- Kaiber
- Letz.AI
- Midjourney
- Ideogram
- DALL-E
- Firefly
- Stable Diffusion
- Google Imagen 3
- Polycam
- LTX Studio
- Simulon
- Elevenlabs
- Auphonic
- Adobe Enhance
- Adobe’s AI Rotoscoping
- Adobe Photoshop Generative Fill
- Canva Magic Brush
- Akool
- Topaz Labs
- Magnific.AI
- FreePik
- BigJPG
- LeiaPix
- Move AI
- Mootion
- Heygen
- Synthesia
- Chat GPT-4
- Claude 3
- Nolan AI
- Google Gemini
- Meta Llama 3
- Suno
- Udio
- Stable Audio
- Soundful
- Google MusicML
- Viggle
- SyncLabs
- Lalamu
- LensGo
- D-ID
- WonderStudio
- Cuebric
- Blockade Labs
- Chat GPT-4o
- Luma Dream Machine
- Pallaidium (free)
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Emmanuel Tsekleves – Writing Research Papers
Here’s the journey of crafting a compelling paper:
1️. ABSTRACT
This is your elevator pitch.
Give a methodology overview.
Paint the problem you’re solving.
Highlight key findings and their impact.
2️. INTRODUCTION
Start with what we know.
Set the stage for our current understanding.
Hook your reader with the relevance of your work.
3️. LITERATURE REVIEW
Identify what’s unknown.
Spot the gaps in current knowledge.
Your job in the next sections is to fill this gap.
4️. METHODOLOGY
What did you do?
Outline how you’ll fill that gap.
Be transparent about your approach.
Make it reproducible so others can follow.
5️. RESULTS
Let the data speak for itself.
Present your findings clearly.
Keep it concise and focused.
6️. DISCUSSION
Now, connect the dots.
Discuss implications and significance.
How do your findings bridge the knowledge gap?
7️. CONCLUSION
Wrap it up with future directions.
What does this mean for us moving forward?
Leave the reader with a call to action or reflection.
8️. REFERENCES
Acknowledge the giants whose shoulders you stand on.
A robust reference list shows the depth of your research.
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Composition – 5 tips for creating perfect cinematic lighting and making your work look stunning
http://www.diyphotography.net/5-tips-creating-perfect-cinematic-lighting-making-work-look-stunning/
1. Learn the rules of lighting
2. Learn when to break the rules
3. Make your key light larger
4. Reverse keying
5. Always be backlighting