Proud to have worked on @SonzaiXR - an amazing immersive #mixedreality experience with Director for the London Design Festival at - Thanks to #Microsoft and #EpicGames for your support!! Runs to the 26th Sept and FREE!
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Andy McNamara
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Head of CG @ Cinesite - Into cool stuff re: science, art & the creative use of tech - CGI/VFX/VR/AR/AI/Experiential. ex. BBC, IBM, Rushes, Publicis etc. Welsh.
London, EnglandJoined December 2015
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Hypocrisy and schadenfreude all the same time 😀🙄.
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Second lawsuit of the week filed for alleged copyright infringement by an AI company for using ‘scraped’ training data from the web. This time by Getty - who have more clout and resources than most. Will be interesting to see how this pans out..
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Here's a very long-winded reply. Happy to go more in depth on tech as needed:
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This thread is a response to @jonathanhook’s questions about volumetric capture, as always lots of caveats, and apparently, I have to post a long thread in two parts?
1st note: I work for Microsoft, in this field. This may/should/will affect how you view my responses
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Some great insights from this years Oscar VFX ‘bake offs’ to decide the final shortlist.. Go Wakanda!
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Whether you agree with AI art or not, this is an interesting process for 2.5d/3d gamedev. Too much manual intervention for proper expansive world-building but definitely nods to the future of dynamically AI generated content.
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Imagine if ChatGPT could talk to the web 🤔. Masterstroke from Microsoft will probably see it integrate with the underperforming Bing. No wonder Google are nervous. Checkmate to MS if so. Who’d have thunk it eh? 😀
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#ChatGPT cannot scrape the web and has limited knowledge of the world after 2021.
Introducing `WebChatGPT`, a mighty Chrome extension that augments your prompts with relevant results from the web! 🤯
See my demo video below 👇 and install it here:
🔗 chrome.google.com/webstore/detai
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Great summary of the developments in Stable Diffusion this year - much more fun than Midjourney for tinkering under the bonnet especially when using UIs like Automatic1111 and the new InvokeAI to run SD locally. Interested to see where this goes next year.
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As the year is coming to an end, let's take the time to highlight many of the amazing community contributions and projects over the year...
Stable Diffusion has only been around for 6 months but a full thread is still warranted given the extremely fast pace of progress! ↓
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Text-to-3D is around the corner...
I made this with Point-E on (link below 👇). Prompt: "Beautiful Christmas tree, red and green"
I spent thousands of hours making 3D models by scanning. Being able to generate 3D from text is... sorcery.
2023 will be WILD.
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My son, who is a software engineer, just told me that people who know software just had their Elon Musk realization.
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However, on further examination - this will superficially look great, but in a number of cases utter gibberish 😀
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Some more #ChatGPT experiments - this time, creating a simple story from random characters. A cheerful but tragic tale of the adventures of Sarah, David, Emily, James and Alice cut short in their prime 😳 #ai #bookerprize
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As a World Cup themed query, I asked #ChatGPT to explain the offside rule in the style of a 1940’s gangster. This will revolutionise everything! 😀
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Fab evening at Epic Games London Innovation Lab with some great talks from MPC, Framestore and at Dneg leveraging the animation and VFX capabilities of Unreal - above all, the mulled wine was excellent 🍷 #epicgames
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A nice nerdy description of how AI diffusion models work. Still a bit hard core for mere mortals - but there will be a quiz later 😀
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I will attempt to explain the basic idea of how diffusion models work!
... in only 15 tweets! 
Let's get started ↓
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Interesting expo at #180thestrand by the talented folk - lots of generative art and some nice interactive exhibits. Pretty much a Houdini and Unity-fest - but great to see this projected in an exhibition space. Exhibit 14 with the bouncing critters was 👌 😀
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This will be a game changer when the price point to manufacture comes down and it becomes pervasive. Where you couldn’t display dynamic ‘content’ previously this will open up new opportunities.. especially in #Advertising
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An outgoing Twitter employee suspended Elon Musk’s account on their way out 😭
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Art and sculpture in the trenches of Ukraine 🇺🇦
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Art is the realm of a free people.
#FreedomIsOurReligion
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After a bunch of experimentation I finally got DALL-E to work for video by combining it with a few other AI tools
See below for my workflow -
#dalle2 #dalle #AIart #ArtificialIntelligence #digitalfashion #virtualfashion
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Stinks of desperation for libraries such as shutterstock where AI has the potential to affect their bottom line and need to control this space. How can they tell if a well crafted, heavily Photoshopped image is AI anyway? The genies out the bottle… 🧞♂️
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Pre-Halloween action at No 10! 🎃 Dr Jeckyl von Frankenrishi resurrects the withered corpse of Suella Braverman as Home Secretary (again)… #stablediffusion #aiart #ai #gov #ToriesOut
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Great way of blocking out compositions, shapes and forms in 3d for SD with interactive feedback (for those that don’t like sketching!). Maybe this could be integrated with a more artist friendly/sophisticated voxel editor like 🤔
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~ Presenting: DiffusionCraft AI ~
Stable Diffusion running live with Minecraft.
Here is my latest experiment with the little help of some python scripts.
#diffusioncraft #minecraft #stablediffusion #python #img2img #aigaming
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Lo-go knitting machine.. for all this hi-tech ai tomfoolery - nice to see something getting back to engineering basics 👍.
Bored of the usual #AI concept art so tried something different with #stablediffusion to create a retro comic strip. A Marvel-esque Clint as his superhero alter ego takes on a refrigerator! Frames all AI guided compositions and retouched in PS. Just a test, but lots of potential!
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Just to show how inept the Tory government is as they contradict their own advice to the public 🤦 #torychaos #ukgov
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Every doctor, every biologist, everyone with any grasp of antibiotic resistance and its development, just clutching their heads and screaming OH MY GOD NO...
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