"Merry the Christmas Witch" director Tom Walsh says his movie adaptation of the 2012 children’s book would've cost $80 million if he did not use AI. The final budget was $1.5 million.
“We were kind of stuck. The doors are not very open to new kind[s] of ideas and new kind[s] of stories and everything, and that makes it a little tough for independent filmmakers, so that’s where AI came in.”
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maybe once a yr while i am going abt my day i will remember the first fall of lockdown after my roommates had all left and i was alone, sitting on the floor of the empty apt in the one sunny spot and putting this album on for the first time.
also hilariously when i shot him i had to ask client to remove my photo credit because i got soooo many emails pretending to be potential clients that would get to the moodboard stage and then just phish for unreleased photos of him lmfao. only person that's ever happened with