Dear Upstairs Neighbors: How Connie He Taught a Machine to See the Way She Draws.
Pixar alum Connie He turned a sleepless pandemic night into a six-minute short, then taught custom Veo and Imagen models to reproduce her own concept art. Jesse Rylander talks with her about pre-production, control, and what it took for animators and Google DeepMind researchers to speak the same language.