.@IATSE members (like myself) were told by leadership that the reason there were major concessions to the studios on the AI portion of the recent contract deal was because the studios were so scared of the copyright implications of the technology. 1/ At the time I and others called that out for being extremely shortsighted and suggested there was nothing stopping the studios from creating their own proprietary AI models, and here we are only a few months later: 2/ thewrap.com/lionsgate-runw…

Official #conceptart for the "Skimwing" in #AvatarTheWayOfWater - Part 1.⁠ A Thread🧵
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After hundreds of iterations and nearly a year of my life, under the guidance of @DylanColeArt, we finally arrived at this image to get the design over the finish line. From the start, Jim had always described it as sort of a "badass flying fish". We always knew it was going to have 3 modes of movement: swimming underwater, "skimming" on top of the water in "ground effect" (an aircraft term I admit I had to google the first time Jim used it),

Congratulations to Ben and Dylan and the US and NZ crews for your years of hard work!! Fingers crossed!

https://twitter.com/officialavatar/status/1617882378617393158

And a few more! (I mean VFX feels like a no brainer!) Congratulations to all of the incredibly hard working teams!!

Official #conceptart for the "Akula" for #AvatarTheWayOfWater. A thread 🧵.

On my first day after being hired, @DylanColeArt gave me my first assignment: "I need you to design a Pandoran shark". No pressure.⁠ My imposter syndrome had ALREADY been riding incredibly high (getting a tour of the #Avatar2 concept art gallery had already put the fear of god in me), but after he said that I nearly passed out. After picking myself up off the floor, I got to work.⁠