NVIDIA & HP Join LA Summit

What a film looks like when AI is part of the crew

November 10, 2026

Theme

AI filmmaking mostly reaches us as finished clips, with the failed attempts left out. As AI moves from special effect to working member of the crew, it gets judged like any department, on reliability, turnaround, and how cleanly it hands work to the next person. The teams that record where it broke are building knowledge the rest of the industry is going to need. Much of that work happens on the workstations on artists' desks, which is why hardware has become a creative question again.

NVIDIA & HP at Summit

Rendering, animation, video post-production, and AI each place different demands on a creator’s workstation. At our LA Summit, NVIDIA & HP will bring those workflows into focus through a Machine Stage session and onsite demos. The director and collaborators behind Chicka Boom take the film apart in public: which parts of the pipeline the machine handled, where it fell over, and what a production looks like when AI is a crew member rather than a special effect. Apply to join us for a closer look at the technology in action.

Studio Day

Studio Day is coming together on December 3: a more intimate experience designed around deep dive sessions with select partners and hosted lunches. Nearly 70 creative and tech leaders are already on the list, from Lionsgate, NBC Universal, and more. Just a few spots remain, request an invite below.

Pulse

Grimes makes a cameo in Gods Don’t Give Gifts: The AI sci-fi feature directed by Gossip Goblin (Zack London), hitting theaters December 4 as its creators push for Oscar consideration and make the case for AI filmmaking.
550,000 Visits, Zero Sales: A Meta crawler got stuck on artist Chelsea Paulus's "remove from cart" button and hit her site about 550,000 times. When she blocked it, a second Meta bot crashed the site anyway.
No Halo in the Browser: After a wave of AI-built browser ports of games like Halo and GTA Vice City, Anthropic told Claude Code to stop cloning other people's games. Original games are still fair play.

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Til next time,

Artist and the Machine.