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Andy McNamara

@andymac3d

Head of CGI @ Cinesite - Into cool stuff re: art & creative tech..
CGI/VFX/Immersive/AI - ex BBC, IBM, Rushes, Publicis etc.
Runway, Hailuo & Viggle CPP
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Post camera moves are here in Veo3.1 πŸ‘€ Lots of options now for improved coverage and more creative options of gen'd shots.. All we need now is video inpainting / conversational editing in Veo Mr Google DeepMind πŸ˜‰

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Nodevember continues.. Now KREA AI in on the Noderush. 🀠 That must be now at least 7 platforms offering similar functionality. Anyone else getting confused on which UI is which when navigating, connecting attributes and triggering workflows? 🀯

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'Spaghetti Terror' is back.. my first ever AI short from early 2023 : now as a micro drama and the worlds shortest horror film. πŸ˜„ The future is '12 Second Cinema' - more coming soon.. 😎 πŸ› οΈ @Runwayml and Veo3.1

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Delighted to help support the next generation of creatives, designers and artists in my new Visiting Professor role at York St John Uni. πŸ‘¨πŸ»β€πŸŽ“ β€˜Human Creativity First’ + Traditional art & design skills + these amazing new tools & workflows = the future. 😎

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Seeing the inevitable AI node-graph backlash on X ! Ask the VFX/CGI community if it makes them less creative with Houdini, Nuke, Blender Geo Nodes etc.. πŸ€”These use tried and tested, scalable procedural methodologies - massively important as Gen AI tooling matures to support

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Tim nails it once more! Awesome deepdives into Marble and Sima-2. 🀯 2026 looks like where AI 3d and agentic worldbuilding comes of age. Excited to see how we can apply this for our immersive projects. πŸ€”πŸ™‚

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I seem to be doing a few conference panels this week! Tuesday (18th) @ The AI Creative Summit - BFI, London Friday (21st) b'Ars - Barcelona Would be lovely to chat about what we're up to at Cinesite and all things AI, VFX and Immersive! Come and say hi! 😊

I seem to be doing a few conference panels this week!

Tuesday (18th) @ The AI Creative Summit - BFI, London
Friday (21st) <a href="/bArsvfx/">b'Ars</a> - Barcelona

Would be lovely to chat about what we're up to at <a href="/Cinesite/">Cinesite</a> and all things AI, VFX and Immersive! 

Come and say hi! 😊
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The more I dig deeper, theres some great 'quality of life' UX in Freepik Spaces. The ability to split prompts (or any text input) into components and have it auto-concatenate downstream is hugely powerful for automation and streamlining creative workflows.. πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘

The more I dig deeper, theres some great 'quality of life' UX in <a href="/freepik/">Freepik</a> Spaces.  The ability to split prompts (or any text input) into components and have it auto-concatenate downstream is hugely powerful for automation and streamlining creative workflows.. πŸ˜ŠπŸ‘
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Its a wrap! A bit of time out this week from the creative stuff after a pretty intense week of panels and events at #aicreativesummit2025 at the British Film Institute in London and b'Ars in Barcelona.. some great insights and lovely people! 😊

Its a wrap!  A bit of time out this week from the creative stuff after a pretty intense week of panels and events at #aicreativesummit2025 at the British Film Institute in London and <a href="/bArsvfx/">b'Ars</a> in Barcelona.. some great insights and lovely people!  😊
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Hunyuan pull another rabbit out the hat. πŸ‡πŸŽ© Accurate pro-level topology of output meshes with coherent structured quads, edge loops etc.. Remember AI fans, you can't do proper animated deformations on 3d models without these features - a major step up if this works well! πŸ‘

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Like us, another traditional VFX studio flexes into the AI space. With artists and more efficient workflows at its core - will be interesting to see what they are cooking. πŸ‘€

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Kling O1 (below) takes over where Runway Aleph, Wan2.1 Vace etc.. left off. 2026 will be the year of multimodal 'nanobanana-esque' video editing and more granular control across all platforms. Probably where Gen AI video finally comes of age with tangible post/vfx use-cases. πŸ€”

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One of my nasty stress tests of new video models - 'The dreaded 'Tower, Maiden and Eagle Special' - simple Maya previz, NanoBanana Pro restyle and a grey blob for the eagles trajectory. Most fail on the eagle, Kling AI Omni / O1 model did amazingly well. Bravo Mr Kling! πŸ‘

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Trying a new SOTA tech stack today for Freepik #FreepikAIAdvent challenge : Z-Image -> Skin Enhancer -> Kling 2.6 + Native Audio Performance and fidelity is now getting insanely good 🀯 But, the big question.. whats in his box? You'll find out soon..

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Great evening at the Bionic Awards AI showcase in London to see some amazing work and a bit of chat with Uncanny Harry AI Afro Futcha ( Diane ) Salma and bumped into HENDO for some bants! It’s always nice to see another UK based event focussed on what creators are up to!

Great evening at the <a href="/thebionicawards/">Bionic Awards</a> AI showcase in London to see some amazing work and a bit of chat with <a href="/Uncanny_Harry/">Uncanny Harry AI</a>  <a href="/misslaidlaw/">Afro Futcha ( Diane )</a> <a href="/Salmaaboukarr/">Salma</a> and bumped into <a href="/HendoAi/">HENDO</a> for some bants!  
It’s always nice to see another UK based event focussed on what creators are up to!
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As we head into the tail end of the year, really interested what everyone thinks the β€˜Top 3’ AI shorts of the 2025 was in terms of quality of storytelling and visuals? Any faves and why? No, you can’t vote for your own film! πŸ˜€

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Amazing R&D Day presentation from Runway 😲 As well as news on Gen 4.5 they announce their new General World Model : GWM-1 , GWM Worlds (Real time world simulator), GWM Avatars and GWM Robotics! 🀯 In Runway we trust! 😎 runwayml.com/research/intro…

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The 'Annual Christmas Elf Piggyback Challenge' is now underway! πŸŽ„ Some fun putting Runway new Gen 4.5 model through its paces with text2video - its doing a lot of heavy lifting here. 😁😜πŸ₯