Disney invited me to talk about my GenAI startup and research in front of a bunch of their execs across ABC, ESPN, Pixar, Streaming, etc. All of their folks were super nice and gracious to our small startup except for one.
Steve May basically scoffed at how little my small team could accomplish. Mind you we were using mocapped skeletal animation and object animation curves to fully steer video diffusion over a year and a half ago. Before image to video modalities. He picked apart our training and engineering and gloated that they could do better.
The incident is seared into my brain.
I can't help but think of Disney as the Empire and Pixar as the Death Star.
This reminds me a bit of a project I am currently doing where I swap adjacent pixels in the last image of short video sequences until it resembles the first image:
This is really neat. The videos give me an instant headache. It's quite exciting to feel such a palpable and unusual effect from a video. Until now I wasn't aware that a video could give me a headache. I wonder what other physical sensations are possible from video? My compliment is genuine.
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The incident is seared into my brain.
I can't help but think of Disney as the Empire and Pixar as the Death Star.
https://www.instagram.com/marekgibney/reel/DILksFYNSkE/
https://diffusionillusions.com
https://dangeng.github.io/visual_anagrams/
There are also videos with the process explained