Video of the Week: Reemo Green by Neural Viz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bYA2Rv2CQ8

If you're interested in the future of film-making, this is not a bad point to pause and take stock.

Here is an 11-minute film made entirely of AI. It took 120 hours of graft to make by AI skillsmith Neural Viz. It's a very good mini - some great graphics, consistency, comedy and jeopardy baked-in too. It's clear that AI is getting to a level where we're only a couple of years away from a full-length Hollywood-style blockbuster.

But I think that what it illustrates more than anything is the importance of the human creator in the process. This has been scripted and orchestrated by someone that's clearly got serious ability in this area. Training yourself up to use this stuff - just like being early to the synthesiser or coding or the wheel - will cement serious economic advantage on you.

In your spare time - because I know we all have so much! - instead of tinkering in your shed or picking up the PS5 controller, have a little play on the likes of Google Veo 3, Nano Banana, ElevenLabs and the like and see what you can create. It's like sketching stuff - no one needs to see it; but it might just surface a skill that you never imagined you had ...