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This remake of a classic animation works from Roger Deakins’ original lighting design, a colour palette plucked from the Faroe Islands, and puppeteered dragons, explains DoP Bill Pope.

AI is the new secret sauce that every CTO is being pressed to bring on board, helping to supercharge every part of the business, from automating admin to amplifying creativity. But what is the underlying cost to the environment? Neal Romanek reports.

What happens when the tortoise of animation meets the hare of artificial intelligence? Speed is AI’s superpower but it threatens to wipe away jobs and craft. IBC365 is on the ground at the Animation Film Festival in Annecy.

The inaugural South by Southwest London 2025 saw Shoreditch taken over by the US-founded creative festival brand, serving up a blend of business, tech and culture to an international audience, with delegates attending from 56 countries.

Film and TV professionals, studio executives and kit manufacturers are urged to open up to the creator economy or face ruin.

“We’re not writing to the headlines, but you see this sort of conflict and empire building happen over and over again in history”, says John Gilroy, lead editor and executive producer of Star Wars spy thriller Andor.

The IBC Accelerator project envisions AI-driven production assistants that seamlessly integrate into control room workflows, enhancing live production with intelligent automation.

Google’s generative filmmaking tool Veo 3 sparks Hollywood exploration but creative ownership remains in flux.

While questions remain over genAI’s impact on the creative sector, few can argue against the automation of mundane tasks bringing order to unprecedented volumes of footage.

When individuals can build multi-million pound business empires from chatting to people online, it is high time to call it what it is or get left in the dust, says FlightStory’s Georgie Holt.