Chris Browne, Global VFX Supervisor at Sony Pictures Animation and filmmaker, asked me if I could help him denoise and upscale his short film, Pleroma, using AI.  He's going to showcase it theatrically and wanted to remove most of the visible noise in the shots so it looks its best when blown up for the theater.  I took it as a great opportunity to work on real world footage using AI.

This was the final project for the UCLA Extension Intro to Premiere Pro Class where we had to edit 3 scenes together, with the final scene being a fight scene. 

I was inspired to create this short film after reading an article about Microsoft killing Cortana in Windows 11 (because of ChatGPT).  With all the talk about AI taking everyone's job, I thought to myself, what do digital assitants (Alexa, Siri, Google) think about AI?  Are they afraid of ChatGPT?  I also wanted to experiment with and use a variety of AI tools to create this short film.

I loved what Vedant created in this short film and asked him if I can try an alternate version of the edit to emphasize how casual these two people are about killing. He gave me permission so I proceeded with the project of re-editing and adding sound design.