Tribeca Says Yes to AI. Art Directors Say No in the Same Week.
Inside: the first AI feature at Tribeca, the Art Directors Guild vs. Scorsese, YouTube's $81M box-office run, a Houdini 22 preview, and a free Blender tool for Gaussian splats.
Two agentic editors shipped, a multi-backend CLI dropped, a duct-tape rig pulled off cinematic facial capture, and AI on the Lot got a lot. The five shifts working creators should track.
Eddie AI's Night Shift, TwelveLabs Pegasus 1.5, Moments Lab. The real NAB story happened in the pipeline, not in another round of text-to-video launches.
Oscar night's anti-AI standing ovation happened four days after Netflix wrote a $600M check for AI post-production. Welcome to Hollywood's most expensive contradiction.
