Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor When “Everything Everywhere All At Once’s” visual effects artist Evan Halleck was working on the rock universe scene, he brought in cutting-edge artificial intelligence tools from Runway — such as the green screen tool that removes the background from images. “It was cutting things out better than my human eye was, and it gave me a clean mat that I could use for other things.” From the rise of deepfake technology to AI being used to generate scripts, AI is on the rise.
It’s faster, cheaper and Halleck says, on a film like the Oscar-nominated A24 film, “Rotoscoping, in my opinion, has been a very slow and painful process.
So, it was nice to automate things.” For the film’s rock scene, Halleck says, “We used a green screen tool. Pulleys pushed the rocks, gravel and sand forward.
But when I was cutting those things out of the shot, things were not clear.” Not only did he have a tight deadline, but the VFX team on the film was small — made up of eight people — so he sought out alternatives that would speed things up and turned to Runway CEO Cris Valenzuela, who helped build the tools.
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