January 12, 1996/Venice, Calif.-headquartered sound design/music house Machine Head has gone bicoastal, opening a New York facility. Producer Barbara Spenningsby, formerly account executive/sales associate at rep firm Case & Partners, New York, will anchor the new office. Also, Bill Chesley, formerly co-owner/chief sound designer at Giant Lizard Company, New York, has been named resident sound designer….Dick Voss, former executive producer/ general manager of Planet Blue, Hollywood, has been named president of Post Logic Studios, also Hollywood….Director/DP George Jecel, formerly of bicoastal BFCS, has joined The End, also bicoastal, for exclusive representation….
JANUARY 11, 1991/Director Bob Perks has closed his Venice, Calif.-based Northern Films, to join Image Point Productions, Los Angeles…. Shooting Stars Productions, based in New York, has opened an office in Los Angeles….Post Effects, Chicago, has tapped designer/ director Don Hoeg to fill a newly created position of creative director. Hoeg will oversee the company’s special effects directors Sandy Weber and Arturo Cubacub….
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Tim Burton Discusses His Dread Of AI As An Exhibition of His Work Opens In London
The imagination of Tim Burton has produced ghosts and ghouls, Martians, monsters and misfits — all on display at an exhibition that is opening in London just in time for Halloween.
But you know what really scares him? Artificial intelligence.
Burton said Wednesday that seeing a website that had used AI to blend his drawings with Disney characters "really disturbed me."
"It wasn't an intellectual thought — it was just an internal, visceral feeling," Burton told reporters during a preview of "The World of Tim Burton" exhibition at London's Design Museum. "I looked at those things and I thought, 'Some of these are pretty good.' … (But) it gave me a weird sort of scary feeling inside."
Burton said he thinks AI is unstoppable, because "once you can do it, people will do it." But he scoffed when asked if he'd use the technology in this work.
"To take over the world?" he laughed.
The exhibition reveals Burton to be an analogue artist, who started off as a child in the 1960s experimenting with paints and colored pencils in his suburban Californian home.
"I wasn't, early on, a very verbal person," Burton said. "Drawing was a way of expressing myself."
Decades later, after films including "Edward Scissorhands," "Batman," "The Nightmare Before Christmas" and "Beetlejuice," his ideas still begin with drawing. The exhibition includes 600 items from movie studio collections and Burton's personal archive, and traces those ideas as they advance from sketches through collaboration with set, production and costume designers on the way to the big screen.
London is the exhibition's final stop on a decade-long tour of 14 cities in 11 countries. It has been reconfigured and expanded with 90 new objects for its run in... Read More