Hi all. I am looking for guidance on what to see and what to attend at AI on the Lot next week. The agenda posted on the website has a lot of appealing options but I don’t really know what the standouts are. I am looking for help either from the conference admins or from attendees. What panels will be good? Are any of the speakers superstars? I am not very aware of who is famous and who is not.
I am pretty deep in the ai film stuff (I’m running gens in 3 other tabs while writing this). Have a background as an editor (been editing professionally for 12+ years). I would like to get deeper and actually learn how to make it look cool. So making it play nice with the traditional VFX flow. I’m less interested in the high-level “What’s this all mean” discussions, but if it’s a really good person speaking I am up for it.
Just looking for some recommendatinos on what to see. Thanks.
Hey @DrBentman! If it helps, registered attendees can see the full agenda, speakers, and descriptions at https://sessions.aionthelot.com. You’ll need to log in with the email/phone number you signed up with. You can also add sessions to your calendar there.
I’ll let others speak as to which events they’re looking forward to. I think they’re all super exciting.
The conference is designed to appeal to a variety of interests. Based on what you said, I would recommending spending most of your time at the Culver Labs, which is where there will be several hands-on workshops and demos. This is where you can bring your laptop and follow along in workshops (Important: bring your laptop!).
Here are a few specific programming highlights.
POST PRODUCTION / VFX
In the Culver Labs there will be workshops where you can learn hardcore AI workflow tools like ComfyUI as well as workshops about how to use AI within the context of prosumer Post softwares like Unreal Engine, Houdini, etc. Highlights:
Directing in Post: AI VFX Panel on Wed @ 2pm (link)
Virtual Production on your phone w/ Jetset workshop on Thurs @ 4pm (link)
GEN JAM FILMMAKING SPRINT
If you want to meet other people actively making generative films, then go here in the Culver Labs. A group called Machine Cinema will be hosting filmmaking sprints that they nickname “Gen Jams” where they break attendees up into small teams and then challenge them to make a short film in 2-3 hours. Here’s a post about the Gen Jam filmmaking sprints and how to participate.
AI STUDIO SPOTLIGHTS
On Wednesday May 28, you’ll be able to see presentations from all of the major AI film studios that have emerged over the last year. This includes Asteria, Promise, Massive, Secret Level, GRAiL, Gennie, and more. Whether you’re interested in the actual content these studios are currently making, the presentations provide a terrific overview of what an “AI film studio” is, how they operate, how they’re thinking, and what their process looks like. It should be interesting programming for pretty much any attendee of this conference.
