Caleb Ward

Co-founder and CEO, Curious Refuge · 1 appearance on the record.

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Caleb Ward co-founded Curious Refuge, an online community and training academy focused on generative AI filmmaking, advertising, and digital storytelling. He is best known for creating viral AI parody trailers, including "Star Wars by Wes Anderson" and "Barbenheimer," and for training creative teams and studio artists on AI video production workflows.

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Ward: AI will soon be capable of creating emotionally resonant films

“If a guy on a laptop could put this project together in 20 hours, soon AI was going to be capable of creating an emotionally resonant film.”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 4:24 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

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AI is already used in film production for scripting and pre-visualization

“AI is already being integrated into the production pipeline. From creating Python scripts for visual effects workflows, To pre-visualizing the way that you want your film to look like, AI is already dramatically changing the way in which we approach our storie…”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 4:52 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

Insight

Ward: AI tools lack creative taste and require iterative human direction

“The biggest thing is creative taste, so these tools, they don't necessarily have taste, you can use prompts to push them in the right direction, but it really is this back and forth process with you as a creative creator.”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 10:30 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

Disclosure

Ward: AI film bootcamp enrolls Oscar-winning directors alongside 11-year-olds

“We have everyone from Academy Award winners and directors who are doing amazing stuff out here in Hollywood, all the way to an eleven-year-old girl who's creating her short film concept for the first time.”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 5:17 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

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Ward: Summit's featured AI short film was created in under a week

“This film that you're watching right now was created by a woman in the Middle East in less than a week.”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 5:47 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

Disclosure

Ward details AI film workflows using Midjourney, depth maps, and image-to-video

“The visuals were of course created in Mid Journey, and Some of them were animated using, I'm gonna get a little nerdy here, like depth maps and things like that. Others were image to video that we literally uploaded an image, and it spit out the video that you…”

Caleb Ward Sep 27, 2023 ▶ 9:20 All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward	Sep 27, 2023	5m

Caleb Ward

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