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Interview Recently I took to time to speak with Adworldnews I've been speaking with a lot of people about the state of ai in recent days and had the pleasure of speaking with Adworldnews.com about the state of the ai industry as it relates to filmmaking and advertising. Here is the entire article for you to read: ARTICLE: https://www.adworldnews.com/news/mickey-micklos-stills-first-ai-workflow
I've been refining my workflow as my team has grown larger over time and now we have a great hybrid node-based workflow that's mainly cloud-based. I'm using a combination of Weavy, Higgsfield, and Comfyui. As these models get larger and more complex working locally has become less useful for main generation. We now just use local ai generation for the prestige refinement passes that give us the edge on realism. And why Star Wars? Because I'm a huge...
When I set out to create this AI-powered Air Jordan 40th Anniversary commercial, I wasn’t just experimenting with technology. I was trying to capture a feeling — the fire, awe, and electricity of watching Michael Jordan rise in real time. For those of us who lived through that era, it was more than sports; it was witnessing a once-in-a-generation force reshape culture, confidence, and the idea of greatness itself. You can’t fully explain that fe...
When I set out to create this AI-powered Uber Eats spec commercial, I wanted to do more than run a simple test of new tools. I wanted to answer a bigger question: What happens when someone with years of filmmaking experience and a love for storytelling is given access to the next generation of creative technology? This project became my way of exploring that question and pushing myself to see just how far these tools can take us.
Critically acclaimed 200 Contracts is a forty-minute crime drama series I created, wrote, and directed, loosely inspired by the early years of Richard "The Iceman" Kuklinski, before he became the killer he's known as today. The series follows Ray Kelly (Bek Markas, "Salt"), a mob hitman falling for a woman outside that world, alongside Adam Mucci ("Boardwalk Empire") as his crime boss. Winner of Outstanding Series in a Drama at LA Webfest 2014, wit...
There are some projects you take on because they pay the bills — and then there are the ones that feel like a gift. This was the latter. My good friend Zach Moore shot this Super 8 film over the course of many years. It’s a collection of quiet moments, intimate portraits, and fragments of time — all captured with that unmistakable warmth and imperfection that only film can give you. When I finally sat down to watch the cut, I was genuinely move...
Recently I've been very deep into the potentials of AI for storytelling. Everything from Midjourney to Runway to Stable diffusion. I'm going to attempt to layout what I've been working on with this NeRF to Stable Diffusion commercial process. So firstly I thought about what I could with just a single object. Now normally I wouldn't do this for a commercial purpose but it was sort of a challenge. What can I create using AI and just capture one si...
Sam Altman makes bold claims about AI taking over advertising and marketing but does he know the first thing about the industry?
The AI filmmaking revolution, from script to post-production, raising concerns about job loss and artistic integrity and future of filmmaking.