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WAN has launched a new feature called Animate in WAN 2.2, targeting AI character replacement, traditionally dominated by Runway Act Two. Animate offers full character replacement, dynamic motion handling, and consistent style. This innovation could enhance creators’ workflow, providing a strong alternative and fostering competition in AI video technology.

New AI filmmaking competitions are emerging, notably an AI Horror Film Competition by Curious Refuge and NextGen Creative Contests by Kling, along with one from The Dor Brothers. These contests foster community, innovation, and visibility, marking a significant moment in AI film by promoting global collaboration and experimentation among creators.

Hello Creators, You might want to sharpen your pencils — because Marey by Moonvalley just unlocked a wild new ability: Sketch to Video. Yep. Give it a simple sketch + a text prompt, and Marey will turn that into a photorealistic video. One static frame becomes a living, breathing moment. This isn’t some abstract concept…

Google’s Veo 3 introduces a groundbreaking image-to-video feature, transforming still images into animated sequences. This upgrade enhances storytelling with context-aware animations and integrates sound synchronization. As a result, creators can produce cinematic content from a single image, positioning Veo 3 as a strong competitor in the AI creative tools market.

Hailuo has launched version 2.0 of its AI video creation tool, showing improvements in motion generation, realism, and prompt responsiveness, making it competitive with Google’s Veo 3. This advancement promotes a more decentralized generative video landscape, granting creators more flexibility across various platforms and workflows.

HELLO CREATORS, Big day for AI visuals — Midjourney has officially entered the video game.After years of leading the image generation space, they’ve just released Version 1 of their video model, and it’s now available to the entire community. This is a foundational step toward what they call “real-time open-world simulations” — but for now,…

HELLO CREATORS, There’s a new AI film series dropping this July — and it’s not coming from Hollywood. “Beyond The Loop” is a fully AI-powered anthology created by Wonder Studios, ElevenLabs, Fál, Freepik, and Kling. It’s headed to YouTube and Vimeo, and it’s one of the clearest signs yet that independent creators are building a…

HeyGen has launched Avatar IV, an advanced lip-sync model that creates lifelike expressions and synchronized speech from a single photo and script. It works for both human and non-human characters, offering enhanced emotional nuance. This tool revolutionizes personalized content creation, enabling studio-level expressiveness with minimal input.