#71 The TRUTH about AI & Filmmaking (Nobody T...

Epic Games dropped the Unreal Engine 5.8 preview, and it is stacked with updates that change real time work, from full body Mesh to MetaHuman and a production ready MegaLights to a new mesh terrain system and an official MCP server that lets AI agents work inside the editor. Then ...  Show more

Higgsfield released SuperComputer, an AI agent that plans and creates product photos and videos for you using Claude Opus 4.7 and Higgsfield's pre-built skills. WorldLabs open sourced Image Blaster, a pipeline that turns a single reference photo into a fully interactive 3D enviro ...  Show more

Welcome to the show this week.  Our guest is cinematographer Idan Menin who is on to talk about his latest work on the film Lost on a Mountain in Maine. The film looks great and Idan has a ton of stories to share from pre-production all the way through to his work on set.  I r ...

Machinima — a portmanteau of “machine” and “cinema” — refers to movies filmed inside video games. The art form had a renaissance in the 1990s, and many thought it had a future in Hollywood. Among the early pioneers were the New York animation collective the Ill Clan, who puppetee ...  Show more

DJ Khaled, the one-man internet meme, is known for warning his tens of millions of social media followers about a group of villains he calls “they.”

“They don’t want you motivated. They don’t want you inspired,” he <a href="https:// ...

Bill and Ted Face the Music is Dean Parisot’s most recent film, but not the only notable project in his filmmaking career. He started off his career with an Academy Award for his short film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings. We talk about what it was like w ...