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Check out a full breakdown of the news here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/ai-motion-control-workflow Explore our Membership: https://curiousrefuge.com/curious-refuge-membership Start Learning for Free: https://curiousrefuge.com/start-here Join our Community for Free: https://curiousrefuge.com/start-here Check out our upcoming events: https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-events Tools you need for the new Workflow: For creating a Depth Map: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/depth-anything-video For Rotoscoping: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/sam-3/video For Depth Map and Skeleton Pose: http://Framethrower.ai Time Code: 00:00 Intro 00:22 Insane Motion Control Workflow 11:57 SAM2 Matteing 14:08 Lip Sync with VEED 20:19 George Lucas Thoughts on AI 21:23 Reve 2.1 26:38 Prompt Library 27:40 Lingbot World 2 28:48 Alibaba’s World Model 29:29 HunYuans New World Model 30:04 LTX Reframe 33:18 Promise Film Slate 33:33 Check out these meetups! 34:10 AI Films of the week 36:13 Thanks for Watching! Check out a full breakdown of the news here: https://curiousrefuge.com/blog/ai-motion-control-workflow Explore our Membership: https://curiousrefuge.com/curious-refuge-membership Start Learning for Free: https://curiousrefuge.com/start-here Join our Community for Free: https://curiousrefuge.com/start-here Check out our upcoming events: https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-events Tools you need for the new Workflow: For creating a Depth Map: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/depth-anything-video For Rotoscoping: https://fal.ai/models/fal-ai/sam-3/video For Depth Map and Skeleton Pose: http://Framethrower.ai Helpful Links: George Lucas' thoughts on AI: https://variety.com/2026/film/news/george-lucas-test-screenings-embraces-ai-hollywood-1236810656/ Andy Serkis on AI in The Hunt for Gollum / motion capture: https://variety.com/2026/film/global/andy-serkis-animal-farm-ai-hunt-for-gollum-motion-capture-1236809573/ Lingbot 2 https://t.co/rRGqMrhvea Alibabas world building model: https://x.com/reactorworld/status/2076708134077464838 Tengfei Wang (Tencent AI researcher) tweet, likely on HY World model: https://x.com/DylanTFWang/status/2076609996826308671?s=20 Depth Mao AIWarper workflow: https://x.com/AIWarper/status/2074177118532161948 LTX Studio (Lightricks) video-to-video reframe tool login: https://ltx.video/purchase/v1/ltx_video/default/login?redirectAfterLogin=https%3A%2F%2Fltx.video%2Fpurchase%2Fv1%2Fltx_video%2Fdefault%2Flogin%3FredirectAfterLogin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fconsole.ltx.video%252Fplayground%252Fvideo-to-video-reframe%252F Meigen AI (image/video generation platform) invite link: https://www.meigen.ai/?invite=1 Hugging Face Space – SAM2Matting (AI image matting demo): https://huggingface.co/spaces/FudanCVL/sam2matting Reve AI tweet: https://x.com/reve/status/2076800732905480542 Veed Studio (AI video editing platform) tweet: https://x.com/veedstudio/status/2076986091593158834 BytePlus (ByteDance's AI/cloud arm) tweet: https://x.com/BytePlusGlobal/status/2077321849806234080?s=20 Curious Refuge AI Film Gallery – "Blackwater's" (Seedance, 4K AI short film): https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gallery/blackwaters-seedance-4k-ai-short-film Curious Refuge AI Film Gallery – "The Last Real Man" (AI short film): https://curiousrefuge.com/ai-film-gallery/the-last-real-man-ai-short-film

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