Show HN: Heard Google copied part of our product for IO. Want to show off first
A developer claims that Google has created a 3D film tool similar to their product, ArtCraft, which will be showcased at Google IO. The developer emphasizes the unique features of ArtCraft, including its ability to create precise 3D scenes and its open-source approach. They express excitement about their growth and invite collaboration from interested developers.
- ▪The developer alleges that Google has built a 3D tool similar to their own product, ArtCraft.
- ▪ArtCraft allows for precise control over 3D film set decoration and character posing.
- ▪The developer plans to create specialized tools for various aspects of film production and make them open source.
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I just heard from a very reputable source that Google built part of our product and that they're about to show it off at Google IO.We built a 3D film tool called ArtCraft:https://getartcraft.comhttps://github.com/storytold/artcraft (our monorepo with the desktop app, server, and website code)Our 3D virtual film set enables set decoration, location reuse, precision blocking (control over where things are), character posing, etc.Sets and objects can be generated as meshes or gaussian splats.Autoregressive multimodal models can treat input "previz" style scenes as ControlNets of sorts.
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