Joey Daoud

Exploring the future of media creation on VP Land - newsletter, podcast, & YouTube series. Documentary producer. Past work on Netflix, Hulu, NYT.

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🎬 The full Inside the AI Studio series is now live...and the trailer just dropped.

Filmed at @aionthelot, this 12-part series features conversations with the creative minds shaping the future of AI in filmmaking.

We dive into:
• How AI is actually being used on real productions
• New workflows for VFX, previs, editing, and animation
• How creators are training custom models for storytelling
• Where the tools are headed next - and how fast

and a lot more

Featuring:
Amit Jain at Luma AI
@gravicle / @lumalabsai

Andrew Hevia at Fabula
@andrew_hevia / @fabula_prod

Davide Bianca at GRAiL

Edward Dawson-Taylor at CG Pro
@becomecgpro

Eliot Mack at Lightcraft Technology
@lightcraftpro

Kavan The Kid at Phantom X
@kavanthekid / @phantomx_ai

Max Einhorn at Gennie
@maxeinhorn / @genniestudio

Michael Lingelbach at Hedra
@mjlbach / @hedra_labs

Michaela Ternasky-Holland at MTH Studio
@ImMichaelaTH

Monji Batmunkh at Topaz Labs
@monjibatmunkh / @topazlabs

Parag Mital at The Garden in the Machine
@pkmital

Reza Sixo Safai at Massive Studios
@rezawrecktion / @ai_massive

▶️ Watch the full series → https://t.co/0rTmOpXadq

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@mattworkman there isnt a good gif but its when they were trying to take the outdoor workout class for free in Bridesmaids https://t.co/gXSYuFgBEE

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Buried the lede ❤️

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The George Lucas Museum Cinema. Opening in September. It’s being described as the “finest” cinema in America. I can’t wait 🙌

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@mattworkman Wait, wha

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@mattworkman Flex

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@mattworkman Damn, crazy

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@bilawalsidhu Needs to upgrade to the Aliens Steadicam rig

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@mattworkman @aionthelot 👀

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@icreatelife Great to finally meet you!

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Thanks Google! See you next week at #GoogleIO

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Joey Daoud @c47 from @vplandtweets explores how to master agentic workflows for faster media production.

Full YouTube video, here → https://t.co/8rDcmk3cz3

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Google just dropped Gemini Omni, their latest video model.

Think of it as the video version of Nano Banana, not a Veo 4 successor, but a conversational, multi-modal layer for video editing and generation.

The highlights (from the release):
▸ Video to video editing
▸ Character & style consistency
▸ World knowledge. Inherits Gemini’s grasp of history, physics, biology, and culture. Strong text rendering too.
▸ Natural language camera control
▸ Avatars. Scan yourself in the Gemini app, drop yourself into any scene.

My findings from a few days of quick testing:
▸ Video quality and realism stepped up, but still trails Kling and Seedance
▸ Image-to-character likeness is weak. Feeding it a reference image of a person doesn’t reliably hold the face.
▸ Video-to-video works…ish. It preserves most elements of the source scene, but my transformation tests came back conservative. It’s not aggressively reimagining the input.
▸ The standout is avatars. H/t to @venturetwins for surfacing this, it’s buried in the Gemini UI. You scan your face, say a few numbers, and it builds an avatar you can drop into scenes. Quality from a quick iPhone capture was genuinely impressive.

The open question: why?

This feels aimed at the void Sora left behind, but is there a void there? Right now the avatar feature is locked to yourself. No social sharing, no pulling up other people’s avatars even with consent.

Once the API comes out, I’ll be curious what full inputs you can give the model and if it has the same web search toggle Nano Banana has to source live data.

What do you think?

#googleio

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Grogu with his skin taken off.

(Source: https://t.co/mTaTlrJJpy)

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