PIXAR USED AI TO STOKE ELEMENTAL'S FLAME

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Pixar turned to AI to solve a unique animation challenge for its new movie 'Elemental', using AI to animate a character made of fire. Paul Kanyuk, a technical supervisor at Pixar, applied Neural Style Transfer (NST) technology to animate the fiery character, Ember. Despite the hefty computational demand, the team achieved a 20X speed-up by leveraging GPUs, heralding a new intersection of art and technology in animation.