Minta Carlson works as a senior creative AI architect at Moonvalley's Asteria film studio, applying AI across production tasks to reduce time and cost from script evaluation through post-production. Moonvalley develops an ethical AI model called Marey and partners with filmmakers to produce visual elements and VFX. Carlson combines theater and graphic design experience with self-taught skills in training and fine-tuning models to represent specific characters, movements, and styles. Her projects include animating creatures, fleshing out character visuals, and augmenting budget-constrained scenes. The industry is adopting AI cautiously amid concerns about intellectual property and potential job displacement.
In the Hollywood context, what we do is called "fine-tuning" models. Let's say you wanted a specific dragon in a production. You could train a model to understand who that dragon is, how it moves, what it looks like - what it looks like really close up and really far away. And when you point the dragon this way and you tell it to fly upward toward the sunset, it'll understand what that means.
I started working at Asteria full time early this year. Sometimes, I'm working on animated shorts in-house, and other times, I'm working with studios on VFX or background pieces. I'll work with creative directors and others to flesh out how a project's characters and styles should look. We recently helped a studio augment a party scene that otherwise would have been cut for budgetary reasons.
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