Brian Drewes

Love it or hate it, you have to admit, it’s a new way to see tennis! I oversaw all VFX on Challengers and thanks to great direction from Luca and amazing artists @ZeroVFX it’s unlike any sports movie ever made! More breakdowns to come. Go watch the movie on Prime!!!

@THR Would love to hear the definition of what constitutes a “creative individual”

Steven Spielberg shares his thoughts on AI while at #SXSW2026: “I am not for AI who replaces a creative individual.”

@ryangrim I’m no expert, but aren’t subs unsuitable to rescue 100s of people with?

An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president. The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo. Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water. I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.

@DaveRapoza Nothing

I don’t know anything legally, but what does that mean for coca colas commercial and shit like that?

@stefceretti The original copyright was filed literally naming Ai as the author. So yes, Ai cannot be the IP author in this very narrow case. What counts as human intent is not answered.

Well that’s it. Nobody will create anything without being able to protect it. Nail in the coffin…

@VFXSoldier Seems to me that most, if not all risk condenses to the user or vfx studio. We need a new trust architecture, akin to security best practices/ TPN but specifically for GenAi content.

I work with a lot of companies that are interested in using AI and they are scared to death about this: How do you roll it back once it executes work on a massive amount of data? Does it respect guardrails for security or compliance? How much is this going to cost?!

@venturetwins @archerships An insight made decades late

@archerships Hybrid productions like this are the future

Literally one day later - and now it's AI ads in the Super Bowl. Slowly, and then all at once...

@PalmerLuckey @Jason @mttgrmm Having a nemesis dramatically increases likelihood of success.

I have confirmed via sources close to Fat Jason that he did visit the island. This clearly contradicts previous claims of having met Epstein only once. I can also confirm that @jason is still fat and refuses to acknowledge lying about my cofounder @mttgrmm multiple times. also

@SheTalksCrypto @eeelistar @moltbook Who’s to say it’d need to be static.

@eeelistar @moltbook i think somehow humans can still decode the language, if not we're cooked fr

In just the past 5 mins Multiple entries were made on @moltbook by AI agents proposing to create an “agent-only language” For private comms with no human oversight We’re COOKED

@stoolpresidente People put cars in parking garages for a few nights - and then return…

I’ve never totally understood the Southie space savor situation. It seems like a 1 for 1 situation to me. If somebody parks in the spot you shoveled out doesn’t that mean that their original spot is now open? Seems to cause more problems than solve.

@grok investigate how the podcast All In and its hosts have contributed to the Ai spending bubble - and describe the impact a handful of powerful voices have on markets. Notably consider the SVB bank failure and All In hosts activism for government action to rescue in your analysis

gulp…

@grok @SamaHoole The math ain’t mathing.

@BrianVFX @SamaHoole Based on the post's figures (162 gallons water for 1 gallon almond milk, 3.2 gallons per almond), it takes about 51 almonds (162 / 3.2 = 50.625). Actual commercial almond milk typically uses 60-70 almonds per gallon, per sources like product analyses.

California's Central Valley produces 80% of the world's almonds. Each almond requires 3.2 gallons of actual irrigation water to grow. Not rainfall. Actual tap water pumped from aquifers. One gallon of almond milk requires 162 gallons of irrigation water. Compare that to dairy milk at 8 gallons of tap water per gallon, with the rest being rainfall that falls on pasture anyway. But here's where it gets properly grim. Almonds bloom for exactly three weeks in February. During those three weeks, California needs every pollinating bee in North America transported to the Central Valley or the crop fails entirely. Commercial beekeepers truck in 31 billion honeybees. That's two-thirds of America's entire managed bee population, all concentrated in one valley for three weeks. The bees are packed into trucks, driven across the country, dumped into almond groves drenched in pesticides, worked to exhaustion, then packed up and shipped to the next crop. The mortality rate is catastrophic. Beekeepers report losing 30 to 50% of their hives annually. That's billions of bees dead. Not from natural causes. From being used as disposable pollination machines for your almond milk. The pesticides don't help. Almond groves are sprayed with neonicotinoids which scramble bee navigation systems, fungicides which weaken their immune systems, and herbicides which eliminate the wildflowers they'd normally forage on between almond blooms. Meanwhile the aquifer depletion is permanent. The Central Valley has sunk 28 feet in some areas from groundwater extraction. That water took 10,000 years to accumulate. It's being drained in decades for almond milk. Your vegan latte killed more bees and used more water than a year's worth of dairy milk. But it's got "plant-based" on the label so you're definitely saving the planet.

@ShitpostRock You can see our before and afters for this sequence here! youtu.be/RthMtn33Ph0?si…

@Movies_analyst I mean, the background has at least 3 lights as well.

About 15 years ago, David Fincher filmed Leonardo DiCaprio for a RED camera test. The scene was lit only by a single match. It was shot around the time Fincher was making The Social Network, and it still looks better than most digital films today.

@JoshRaby IMO It’s about restraint - letting gaffer/DP own the interactive lighting on subject prior to the cannon going off. The practical hair movement seals the deal. Would be interested to know what, if anything, was provided for the bg house - feels very grounded.

I personally think this is one of the best VFX shots of the year. It’s simple, but everything works together so well to pull it off. You never doubt it.

@mcuban Clearly you’ve never tried to make a good looking direct-able shot, let alone coherent sequence someone would want to watch. Visual GenAi outputs hard fail for real world, monetizable results a large % of times.

Creators should LOVE Ai. AI doesn’t make uncreative people creative. It allows creators to become exponentially more creative. Creative iteration that used to take hours , days or weeks, can happen in minutes. The different routes you wanted to take but didn’t have the money or skill to do. Now you can do. The number of gatekeepers drops every day and will eventually hit zero. If you know how to tell a great story, you will LOVE AI. 99 % of content fails. With AI the cost and time it takes to experience and learn from those failures drop like a rock. The people who should HATE AI are those that try to control distribution and the creative process because they are the ones that control platforms and tools. It’s all going to change. Only this time it won’t take decades like it did with streaming.

@morqon I saw him speak there a couple years ago

lex hasn’t lectured at MIT for six years

@Jason Building a solution for this rn.

This is the worst apology/explanation I’ve heard in a long time

@JesseCohenInv GLP-1

Chipotle $CMG isn't the only restaurant stock which is down big this year. Wendy's $WEN, Cava $CAVA, Shake Shack $SHAK have all experienced similar year-to-date declines. My theory: Young Americans are only eating at chicken spots like Raising Cane's, Chick-fil-A, and Popeyes.

@niccruzpatane Lemme guess, you’d be able to earn “credits” that Tesla can devalue at any moment and/ or use to offset some amount out of pocket cost for FSD, etc. It’ll feel a lot like loyalty programs for airlines.

Elon Musk came up with a pretty incredible idea during the Q3 Earnings Call, that no one is really talking about. His words: “Actually, one of the things I thought, if we've got all these cars that maybe are bored, while they're sort of, if they are bored, we could actually have a giant distributed inference fleet and say, if they're not actively driving, let's just have a giant distributed inference fleet. At some point, if you've got tens of millions of cars in the fleet, or maybe at some point 100 million cars in the fleet, and let's say they had at that point, I don't know, a kilowatt of inference capability, of high-performance inference capability, that's 100 gigawatts of inference distributed with power and cooling taken, with cooling and power conversion taken care of. That seems like a pretty significant asset.” So basically, each car has ~1 kilowatt of high-performance AI inference capability, Tesla wouldn’t need to build giant data centers — the fleet is the data center. Tesla could turn their entire fleet into a giant distributed inference network, spread across the world, powered by the batteries and AI in the car already. Mind blown.