The 30th edition of FMX in Stuttgart has closed its doors with a clear message: artificial intelligence is no longer a promise, but a tool embedded in VFX and animation workflows. Under the motto The Road Ahead, the event analyzed how studios integrate generative models without losing creative control.
Intelligent Automation: The New Assistant in the Pipeline 🤖
Technical presentations showcased AI systems trained on proprietary datasets for tasks such as facial rigging, procedural texture generation, and physics simulation. Companies like Weta and Framestore presented workflows where the artist supervises and refines the output, rather than creating it from scratch. The trend points to reducing render and prototyping times, but requires careful review of each result to maintain narrative coherence.
AI Also Wants to Be a Screenwriter, But It Still Writes Weird Endings ✍️
In a roundtable discussion, several creatives showed examples of AI-generated scripts. The result was a mix of functional dialogues and moments so absurd they provoked laughter: from a hero who decides to abandon the mission to become a farmer, to a villain who offers loyalty discounts. It became clear that the machine understands structure, but its concept of a plot twist needs more office hours.