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AI: Coming Soon to a Visual Effect Near You According to a recent press release, the AI in VFX market is projected to balloon to USD 25.51 billion by 2034. That’s a CAGR of 19.38%, for those keeping score at home. In other words, AI is poised to become less of a futuristic fantasy…

Vishambhara’s AI-Generated Teaser: A Glitch in the Matrix? Megastar Chiranjeevi’s upcoming socio-fantasy epic, Vishambhara, is facing a digital drubbing before it even hits theaters. The culprit? Its teaser, which producers now admit used AI-generated visuals instead of traditional VFX. Let’s unpack this. And by “unpack,” we mean dissect with a healthy dose of cynicism.…

Lights, Camera, Algorithm! The AI VFX Boom. Remember when visual effects were the domain of artists hunched over computers for weeks, painstakingly crafting explosions and alien landscapes? Those days are… well, not completely gone. But they’re rapidly being supplemented (or supplanted, depending on your outlook) by the rise of AI. A recent report suggests…

Google’s finally tossed its hat (or rather, its tensor processing unit) into the AI video ring. Veo 2, the search giant’s AI video model, is now available to paying Gemini Advanced subscribers. That’s right, pony up the cash if you want to play director. Paywalled Premiere: Veo 2’s Limited Debut Previously, Veo 2 was…

Google’s AI Overlords: Veo2, Gemini 2.5, and the Robot Revolution So, Google’s back at it again, promising us the moon (or at least a slightly better-looking YouTube video) with its latest AI toys. This time, we’re talking about upgrades to Gemini, a video tool called Veo2, and some protocol mumbo jumbo that’s supposed to…

AI Video Editors on Mac: Are They Actually Useful? So, AI is now editing videos? Seems like only yesterday we were arguing about whether Clippy was sentient. Now it’s “lights, camera, algorithm!” Let’s cut through the marketing fluff and see if these AI video editors for Mac are actually worth the hype, or just…

AI Video Editing in 2025: Will Skynet Take My Job? The robots are coming. Not to replace us, of course. Just to… assist. That’s the line they’re feeding us, anyway. But what happens when that ‘assistance’ starts doing all the heavy lifting? Let’s peek into the crystal ball and see what AI video editing…

Lights, Camera, Algorithm: Google Enters the AI Film Studio Google, not content with merely organizing the world’s information, now wants to script, direct, and score your movies too. They’ve unveiled Vertex AI Media Studio, a suite of AI tools promising to turn text prompts into fully-fledged video productions. Forget film school; now all you…

Blackbird Plunges into the AI-Powered Movie Biz Australian VC firm Blackbird Ventures is making moves, folks. They’ve thrown their hat into the ring (and a chunk of change into the pot) with London-based AI creative studio, Wonder. The studio just snagged $6 million in pre-seed funding to develop AI tech aimed at, you guessed…

James Cameron, the man who brought us blue cat people and the sinking of the unsinkable (twice, if you count the script meetings), has weighed in on AI’s role in filmmaking. And like any good sci-fi plot, it’s a mixed bag of optimism and existential dread. Efficiency vs. Extinction: The Budgetary Balancing Act Fresh…