Andy McNamara
@andymac3d
Gen AI Lead / Creative @Cinesite - CGI/VFX/Immersive/XR 30+ yrs exp @ BBC, IBM, Publicis etc.. Runway CPP, Hailuo CPP , Leonardo CP + @Freepik AI Partner Welsh
Quick PSA to the @Runwayml community! We'll be hosting an informal Runway Meetup in London 🇬🇧on Thurs 17th July @ vfx and animation studio @Cinesite. We've a few speakers already confirmed including the legendary @Uncanny_Harry , myself and few others TBC. Anyone else fancies…
One question for the AI hive mind re: Veo3 .. We can do pretty well with character/object/env consistency between shots using i2v - but what about keeping speech characterisation consistent per character using Veo's audio feature across shots? 🤔
Friday night drop as always from @Runwayml - things are about to get really weird... 😎🤯
Introducing Runway Aleph, a new way to edit, transform and generate video. Aleph is a state-of-the-art in-context video model, setting a new frontier for multi-task visual generation, with the ability to perform a wide range of edits on an input video such as adding, removing…
As is a tradition at such events! A post @runwayml London meetup beer in the pub with the legend that is @Uncanny_Harry - Thanks for your help fella. 🙏 ps. he's pretty canny IRL 😉
So its a wrap! The first London @runwayml meet-up is done and dusted! Was an absolute pleasure to host here @Cinesite and MC the event. 🎤 😎 Big shoutout to @Uncanny_Harry @Oranguerillatan Roxanne Ducharme + Jon Biggs @madebymonks_ - you were awesome! 🙏 Until next time...
Delighted our @runwayml Meetup on Thursday in London is totally sold-out! Looking forward to hosting this with the team here @Cinesite and meeting anyone whose attending! Some great talks by @Uncanny_Harry @Oranguerillatan Roxanne Ducharme + Jon Biggs ( @madebymonks_ ) 👀
The excitement for our upcoming @runwayml App meetup hosted at our studio on July 17th in Central London, has been incredible! We’re delighted to announce that the ticketed event has sold out in record time! We’re really looking forward to a fantastic evening featuring top AI…
Quick stress test of @runwayml new Act-2 v2v restyling with some @freepik stock source footage and a reference image of an alien (made with Flux). Facial, hand and body performance is rock solid and expressive. Runway have done one hell of a job here. 😯
video 2 video has always been the underdog in the gen-ai space, but gives ultimate control when done right - @runwayml comes up with the goods once more! No sleep this evening by the looks of things - playtime! 😎
Introducing Act-Two, our next-generation motion capture model with major improvements in generation quality and support for head, face, body and hand tracking. Act-Two only requires a driving performance video and reference character. Available now to all our Enterprise…
A bit late posting this, but delighted to have my film 'Foroshka' a finalist in the upcoming Neu Wave Film Festival in LA next month! p.s. Made this a while back with @Runwayml , @Hailuo_AI and @freepik - more new stuff coming real soon... 😎
Looks great and another step forward towards ethical AI. p.s. some feedback for @moonvalley - some disappointment that after being on the waitlist there was not even a few free credits to evaluate the model. 🤔. .
Marey Realism 1.5 by Moonvalley is now live in ComfyUI API nodes! First video model trained only on 100% licensed 1080P footages — pro quality, production-ready, and commercially safe. Now available: 🔹 Text-to-Video 🔹 Image-to-Video 🕙 Pose and Motion Transfer nodes coming…
SuperGrok is alive? Not that I used Grok much - but looks like theres some automation tasks in there. 🤔 Lets ask.. @Grok whats SuperGrok and what can it do? Maybe it will respond on this thread..
Been waiting for Comfy support for Flux Kontext.. and now here it is. @bfl_ml continue to smash it. 😎
High quality image editing no longer needs closed models We release FLUX.1 Kontext [dev] - an open weights model for proprietary-level image editing performance. Runs on consumer chips. ✓ Open weights available ✓ Best in-class performance ✓ Self-serve commercial licensing
Early access time with @runwayml new Game Worlds 🤯 Interactive AI driven image and text game building is here! Quickly mocked up a simple quiz based adventure style game : 'Maze of Quizzes' with game mechanics, goals and rules ! More to come..
