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Text to Camera Shots with LLM AI
February 21, 2024A personal side project is converting textual descriptions of camera positioning (for filmmaking) to a machine readable form. Screenplays normally do not include camera directions ...
TensorFlow.js in the browser for expression prediction
January 11, 2024In my last post I introduced the approach of using Google MediaPipe to control VRM character facial expressions. Hasn't this been done before? Yes! There ...
Generative AI for 3D Scene Backgrounds
December 14, 2023Generative AI can be great for background images in animated videos. Want a single shot walking along a path? Creating a background image can take ...
AGRoL, Avatars GRow Legs at Meta
April 21, 2023I love the progress Meta are making (https://dulucas.github.io/agrol/) on animating the lower body from just a VR headset and hand controllers. Personally I would love ...
AI 3D Model Creation
April 13, 2023Just as generative AI has been stirring things up with 2D images, people are also looking hard at 3D models too. One great little video ...
NVIDIA Canvas
April 13, 2023NVIDIA Canvas is an interesting app in the NVIDIA Omniverse suite of tools. It can create a 360 view image of plants, rocks, mountains etc. ...
Generative AI Video vs CG Animation
April 12, 2023Is video created via generative AI going to kill off CG animation (like Pixar movies)? I don't think so. I do think generative AI is ...
2D to 3D Background Artwork
March 29, 2023There is a lot of buzz going on around AI generative artwork. Rather than art generation, I am personally interested in AI tools to speed ...
Entity Extraction for Screenplays with ChatGPT
March 24, 20236:15 PM I am exploring assembling scenes for computer animation from text based on AI. This is partly because I would like to speed up ...
Applying Machine Learning Classifiers to Screenplays for Animation Automation
March 10, 2023In my last blog I introduced this new series on applying machine learning to screenplays with the goal of automating some of the tedious steps ...
Machine Learning for Assembling Animation Scenes
March 6, 2023This is a first post in a new thread looking at using machine learning to speed up my process of assembling camera shots in an ...