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Here’s Caleb … hanging out with friends!! … “Photo: Eugene Tkachenko. Camels in the desert in Egypt (via Unsplash).
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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Here’s Caleb … hanging out with friends!! … “Photo: Eugene Tkachenko. Camels in the desert in Egypt (via Unsplash).
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PM International (DC) from Anna Buryachkova on Vimeo.
Client - PM International
Marketing Manager - Assen Panov
Production Company - Radioaktive Film
Executive Producer - Sasha Bevka
Director and Script - Anna Buryachkova
Script / Copy / 2nd Unit Director - Marina Stepanska
DOP - Lena Chekhovsky
2nd unit DOP - Sasha Roschin
Line Producer- Antonina Patramanska
PA - Vlada Shliamina
1st AD - Andrey Moroz
Production Designer - Aleksandra Patoka
Stylist - Dasha Filshyna
Casting Director - Sergey Ristenko
Make up - Dasha Taivas
2nd Unit Make Up - Sabina Gakhramanova
Production Manager - Nick Semko
2nd Unit Coordinator - Nikita Nikolaenko
Location Manager - Dmitriy Mikhailov
Gaffer - Eugene Malik
Focus puller - Sergyi Sardudinov
2nd Unit Focus puller - Sasha Korotun
Play back - Sergey Rupos
Steadycam operator - Max Salo
Underwater shoot - Oleh Solokha
Russian Arm operator - Roman Kotlyar
Edit - Yuri Reznichenko #Cutbylezo
Junior Editor - Viktor Lisin
Music and Sound Design - Epiphany sound
Colour Correction - Marina Tkachenko
Cast:
Key actors:
Sofi Pashkual
Bakhtiyor Ibragimov
Elena Sikorskaya
Eugeniy Muravyov
David Agomouh
Teresa-Jocelyn Jalko
Oliver Amisi
Featured extras:
Vlada Shliamina
Ira Rozhdestvenskaya
Guy Ruffin Mayla
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Zwyntar - Kazhany from Andrii Gusarov on Vimeo.
Zwyntar - Kazhany
Directed by Andrii Gusarov
Producer – Eugene Oliinyk
DOP – Ivan Fomichenko @innervisionphoto
1AD – Katya Rybka @katya_rybka
Gaffer – Andrew Iorkin
Focuspuller – Sasha Soviak-Krukovskyi @alex_owl_crow
Production designer – Oleg Nametchenyuk
Style – Viktoria Ilyha
Edit – Andrii Gusarov
Digital Compositor – Elizabeth Postol
Colorist – Marina Tkachenko
Production assistant – Liza Yarema
BTS – Anna Vitriana
Rental – Zodiac
Cast:
Igor Tartynskih, Mark Tereschenko, Kristina Melnychenko, Andrew Kaminsky, Liubov Kuchman, Roman Mariukha, Nikita Olkhovyk, Anna Lytvynenko, Anton Bruhtii, Vladislav Radchuk, Anton Vdovytchenko, Dron Vojtik, Dmitry Bilko
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Snapchat quietly acquired AI Factory, the company behind its new Cameos feature, for $166M
After acquiring Ukraine startup Looksery in 2015 to supercharge animated selfie lenses in Snapchat — arguably changing the filters game for all social video and photo apps — Snap has made another acquisition with roots in the country, co-founded by one of Looksery’s founders, to give a big boost to its video capabilities.
The company has acquired AI Factory, a computer vision startup that Snap had worked with to create Snapchat’s new Cameos animated selfie-based video feature, for a price believed to be in the region of $166 million.
The news was first reported by a Ukrainian publication, AIN, and while I’m still waiting for a direct reply from Snap about the acquisition, I’ve had the news confirmed by another source close to the deal, and Snap has now also confirmed the news to TechCrunch with no further comment on the financial terms or any other details.
Victor Shaburov, the founder of Looksery who then went on to become Snap’s director of engineering — leaving in May 2018 to found and lead AI Factory — declined to provide a comment for this story. (The other founders of AI Factory are Greg Tkachenko and Eugene Krokhalev.)
Cameos, launched last month, lets you take a selfie, which is then automatically “animated” and inserted into a short video. The selection of videos, currently around 150, is created by Snap, with the whole concept not unlike the one underpinning “deepfakes” — AI-based videos that look “real” but are actually things that never really happened.
Deepfake videos have been around for a while. But if your experience of that word has strong dystopian undertones, we now appear to be in a moment where consumer apps are tapping into the technology in a race for new — fun, lighthearted — features to attract and keep users. Just today, Josh reported that TikTok has secretly built a deepfake tool, too. I expect we’ll be hearing about Facebook’s newest deepfake tool in 3, 2, 1…
From what I understand, while AI Factory has offices in San Francisco, the majority of the team of around 70 is based out of Ukraine. Part of the team will relocate with the deal, and part will stay there.
Snap had also been an investor in AI Factory. Part of its early interest would have been because of the track record of the talent associated with the startup: lenses have been a huge success for Snap — 70% of its daily active users play with them, and they not only bring in new users, but increase retention and bring in revenues by way of sponsorships or users buying them — so creating new features to give users more ways to play around with their selfies is a good bet.
It’s not clear whether AI Factory will be developing a way to insert selfies into any video, or if the feature will be tied just to specific videos offered by Snap itself, or whether the videos will extend beyond the timing of a GIF. It’s also not clear what else AI Factory was working on: the company’s site is offline and there is very little information about the company beyond its mission to bring more AI-based imaging tools into mainstream apps and usage.
The company’s LinkedIn profile says that AI Factory “provide[s] multiple AI business solutions based on image and video recognition, analysis and processing,” so while the company will come under Snap’s wing, there may be scope for the team to build some of its technology into more innovative ways for businesses to use the Snap platform in the future, too.
We’ll update this post as we learn more.
Updated with Snap’s confirmation of the acquisition.
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TRY explainer video from XPLAI on Vimeo.
Explainer video concept for Try
xplai.com/project/try
Project team:
Yuriy Nesterchuk
Eugen Grushetskiy
Alexandr Tkachenko
Gera San
Julia Tkachuk
Dmitry Lantsevich
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Production Company - 1MOFILM
Directed by Alexey Savelov & Obraz
Producer - Dasha Deriagina
DoP - Eugene Kredentser
Focus Puller - Roman Plakhotnik
Gaffer - Max Ruban
Art Director - Vova Cheremis
Wardrobe - Yana Golub
Makeup - Julia Shelkonogova
Colourist - Marina Tkachenko
VFX & Sound - Obraz
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Alexander Tkachenko - Eugene Masko Canlı İzle
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