News Summary

• Kimball Thurston, Weta FX’s chief technology officer, Korean filmmaker Kang Yun-sung and Netflix ’s APAC Senior Director, Production, Sung Q Lee, discussed the advantages and limitations of using AI tools in production workflows.
• They agreed that AI is bringing a range of efficiencies to the production process – reducing budgets, speeding up workflows and helping filmmakers realize scenes that were previously impossible to achieve.
• But they also noted some of its limitations.
• “We’ve been growing it at a measured pace; using using it for image clean-up; not necessarily for generating images; but generating the motion that goes into some of the crowd scenes,” said Thurston.