Christopher Fryant: Severance Action Figures

• Using the new GPT-4o image generation feature, Christopher Fryant created a series of Severance action figures, complete with packaging and animated video.

• The figures depict MDR refiners like Mark Scout, Helly R., and Irving B., each outfitted with accessories that nod to their eerie, corporate lives at Lumon Industries.

PJ Accetturo: Studio Ghibli Lord of the Rings

• PJ Ace reimagined the Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring trailer in the style of Studio Ghibli, blending the epic fantasy with the renowned Japanese animation aesthetic.

• His process involved capturing 102 screenshots from the original trailer, using OpenAI's Sora to transform them into Ghibli-style images, animating with Kling AI and LumaLabs AI, and re-editing to sync with the original trailer's pacing.

Mickmumpitz: Paper Jam

• Mickmumpitz’s hilarious AI short follows an office worker in an epic showdown with a chaotic, paper-spewing printer.

• In the tutorial below, he shows the process of making “Paper Jam in a tutorial that walks through using ComfyUI and Blender to create projects with consistent characters, controllable poses, and flexible camera angles.

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4o Image Generation

• OpenAI just added native image generation to GPT-4o, allowing users to create images directly in ChatGPT without switching tools.

• The model excels at rendering photorealistic visuals and legible text, with strong adherence to user prompts for detailed control.

• Users can also edit existing images, apply transformations, and generate consistent visuals with multiple characters or complex scenes.

Runway Gen-4

• Runway just launched Gen-4, its most advanced video generation model yet, with major upgrades to realism, motion, and control.

• The model produces more consistent characters and scenes across shots, even when styles, lighting, or angles shift.

• It also captures more accurate physics and object interactions, bringing AI-generated video closer to live-action quality.

AI Stars in Sims Rival InZOI

• South Korea's Krafton (known for PUBG) just released InZOI, an upcoming life simulation game poised to rival The Sims.

• The game uses generative AI to shape character behavior—players give broad personality inputs, and the characters act on their own, sometimes in unexpected ways.

• In one scenario, an assistant professor was fired for skipping work, while another became a hardcore gamer during pregnancy.

One Film, Two Ways: Cinema’s First Dual-Format AI Release

• Director Hooroo Jackson unveiled the trailer for "A Very Long Carriage Ride," marking cinema history as the first film to have a simultaneous dual-format AI release.

• The film arrives in May 2025, and viewers will be able to choose between two stylistically different versions, both made using generative AI.

• The story follows two unlikely companions on a surreal journey through a fractured world, blending sci-fi, fantasy, and philosophical themes.