DECEMBER 9, 1994
Director/cameraman C.B. Harding, formerly of The DXTRs, Hollywood, has signed with Cucoloris Films, Venice, Calif., for spots…. Steel Productions, New York, has opened with principals Emile Savia as executive producer, Francesca Crupi as general manager, and directors Michael Brassert and Taka Kawachi….Savoy Com-mercials, New York, the live-action production company affiliated with R/GA Digital Studios, New York, has added London-based puppetry company Spitting Image Productions….New York-headquartered Unitel Video has reached an agreement in principle to sell its Unitel-Hollywood division to post house Modern Videofilm, Burbank. The purchase price is approximately $7 million in cash….
DECEMBER 8, 1989
Red Car Productions, Hollywood, has established a music video division. Joining the venture as producers are Luke Thornton and Liz Silver. Both had previously been producers at N. Lee Lacy…. Composer/sound designer Michael Montes is leaving Elias Associates, New York, to become a staff writer at JSM Music, New York…. Chris Meltesen has joined Berkofsky/Barrett Productions, New York, as executive producer. He exits Sandbank Films after a two-year run…. John Mead has joined McCann-Erickson/Detroit as executive VP/executive creative director. He had formerly served in the same capacity at Saatchi & Saatchi/ Southern California for five years….
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