AI film history timeline: Midjourney V4 to generative faces on the big screen
DavidmComfort · x · 2026-11-03
An "AI film history timeline" thread marks key dates: Nov 5, 2022 — Midjourney V4's leap in understanding objects, scenes and prompt intent turned it into the default AI-art tool; Nov 1, 2024 — Robert Zemeckis's "Here" used Metaphysic's generative face system to age/de-age Tom Hanks and Robin Wright in real time, a wide studio release with generative AI in the finished image; Nov 5, 2024 — "Saving the Sun," an animated short made with Runway Gen-3.
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