Asteria, a production studio implementing generative AI, is launching an adult animated shortform series title The Odd Birds Show across social media platforms, including YouTube, TikTok and Instagram. The show centers on a dysfunctional bird family who host their own talk show, and is created by director, producer & animator Arvid Tappert.
The Odd Birds Show utilizes a production pipeline combining traditional animation skills with AI tech. Tappert’s hand-drawn character designs were rendered as 3D assets and fine-tuned with AI. The animation process combined human-driven 3D animation, AI, VR puppeteering and motion tracking. Facial expressions and movements were manually polished.
Asteria launched last fall, founded by filmmaker and entrepreneur Bryn Mooser. The studio recently partnered with research company Moonvalley to deliver a foundational AI video model dubbed Marey, which it says was trained on “ethically-sourced data” owned and licensed by Asteria.
[Source: Variety]
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