Speed Zine _ 2024 FC: 🐺 Golden Wolf Acquired by an NFT Project, FutureDeluxe + Tendril = Forever, Beeple Book

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Happy Monday, friends!

Can you believe January is almost done? Time flies. That reminds me of when I worked at a calendar factory. Can you believe they fired me? And all I did was take a day off.

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NEWS OF MOTION

❤️ Award Winning Animated Short 'Between Lines' Drops

The short film 'Between Lines', directed by SOM instructor and incredible motion design, Sara Beth Morgan, released to the public last week. The film is beautifully animated yet gut-wrenching as it sheds light on the painful experiences of bullying with the message that anyone who has experienced bullying should know they're not alone and leaves viewers with a message of empowerment.

⚖️ Lawyer Explains Stable Diffusion Lawsuit

Corridor Crew is one of our favorite Youtube channels on VFX, motion design and 3D and this week they released a new video where they invited a lawyer on to talk about the potential major implications for AI art and it's future.

➕ FutureDeluxe and Tendril Launch Forever

People say diamonds are forever, but so is the merger organization that is made up of studios FutureDeluxe and Tendril! Forever is their global design offering that "is greater than the sum of it's parts." With 2022 being a massive year for studio mergers (Giant Ant + Buck, etc), it's looking like the great studio consolidation will continue in 2023.

🥊 Doodles Acquires Animation Studio Golden Wolf

In a move that will baffle many an animator and be cheered on by many with WAGMI spirit, Web3 media and entertainment firm (and NFT project) Doodles, is acquiring Golden Wolf. If you consider Doodles basically a cartoon IP that needs an animation studio, this kind of makes sense. We've already seen studios like Buck make trailers for Bored Apes, so it'll be interesting if we'll see more studios working for Web3 projects.

🎨 Beeple Releases Art Book

We've heard that 69 million dollars isn't a lot of money these days (thanks, inflation) so that's why Beeple announced his Beeple: Everydays the First 5000 Images "art" book (we kid because we love) that you can pre-order at Barnes & Noble. Just don't leave it on your coffee table or you'll have a lot of explaining to do when guests come over.

🗿 Text-To-4D AI Uses AI to Make 3D Meshes From Text

Another day, another mind blowing AI use case. This week it's Text-To-4D which will generate an impressive 3D mesh from text inputs. You can even load the mesh it generates and orbit around the scene it generates. That's all well and good but wake me when AI can retopo.

🚫 Movie Trailer Generated Using Midjourney

Typically it takes an entire team to create a movie trailer, but with AI a single person can do this task. 'House of Dreams' is a movie trailer made by a single filmmaker and the results are actually pretty impressive. But can Midjourney understand the prompt "Make the logo bigger"?

(Hat tip, Algernon)

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