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# Jeff Foster, the Pixel Painter

Visual Technologist; Post/Production, VFX and Technology Author, AI Producer

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## Posts

- [AI Is Not Replacing Production Experience — It’s Amplifying It](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-is-not-replacing-production-experience-its-amplifying-it/) - For the past several years, the conversation around AI in creative industries has largely focused on replacement, disruption, and automation. But from my perspective as someone who has spent more than three decades working in visual production, visual effects, motion graphics, compositing, and technology training, I see something different happening. The real opportunity isn’t simply
- [GoPro goes PRO! M1 Pro announcement...](https://pixelpainter.com/gopro-goes-pro-m1-pro-announcement/) - GoPro has entered the ring as professional cine gear, in a compact mirrorless form with a new 1″ 8K60 sensors and a new wireless mic system. This isn’t just another product upgrade, it’s a whole new camera system with their new GP3 processor and a 1″ 50MP sensor. Check out the specs in their press
- [AI Tools Artist Spotlight: Randy Scott Slavin](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-artist-spotlight-randy-scott-slavin/) - I recently had the pleasure of meeting up with another long-time colleague in my production path, Randy Scott Slavin. I first met Randy through our mutual interests in the early drone video production industry and he launched the NYC Drone Film Festival. I knew he was a filmmaker before the drone craze hit over a
- [New Personal Blog: "Finding Neo"](https://pixelpainter.com/new-personal-blog-finding-neo/) - I've started a new personal blog tracking my own personal and spiritual journey and sharing what I'm learning at this last quarter of my cycle on the game board. I chose "Finding Neo" because I believe so much of what we perceive as reality is really just the results of what we program our minds
- [AI Tools Artist Spotlight: Matt Silverman](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-artist-spotlight-matt-silverman/) - In this installment of my Artist Spotlight series, I interview Matt Silverman of iBelieveInSwordfish – a motion design studio based in the San Francisco Bay area. Matt and I have run in similar circles with video production, Post and VFX over the years. I consider him one of the best in the business - Check
- [New Life, New Site.](https://pixelpainter.com/new-life-new-site/) - Like so many folks in the Visual Arts & Entertainment Production industries, economics and industry changes have affected my life as well as several personal changes on my journey. Major life events happen. We move on and collect ourselves and reinvent ourselves as everything around us changes. I know a lot of my friends and
- [AI Tools Artist Spotlight: an Interview with Kelly Boesch](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-artist-spotlight-an-interview-with-kelly-boesch/) - Kelly Boesch is an AI visual innovator blending two decades of design expertise from IMAX and abstract painting with cutting-edge technology. A pioneer in developing a new visual language, her visually arresting content has captivated over 2M followers and generates 60M+ views per month across platforms. She sees AI as a powerful collaborator, pushing creative
- [AI Tools Part 1: Why We Need Them](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-part-1-why-we-need-them/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition - January 17, 2023 AI Tools? Aren’t you already exhausted from hearing “AI-this” and “AI-that” everywhere? We’re all constantly blasted with crazy AI generated fantasy images in our social media feeds these days (yes, I’m personally responsible for some of that… sorry!) but where is all this rapidly-growing AI technology really going? Is
- [AI Tools Part 2: A Deeper Dive](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-part-2-a-deeper-dive/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – March 30, 2023 By the time I finish writing this article, most everything in it will be old news by the time you open it. That is just how fast AI technology is developing and it’s a bit exhausting – while incredibly exciting at the same time. In the past
- [AI Tools Part 3: The Current State of Generative AI Tools](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-part-3-the-current-state-of-generative-ai-tools/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – June 28, 2023 As expected by mid-year, we’re much further along with AI tool development (and Generative AI Tools) than what one could have imagined back in January 2023 when I first launched this series in AI Tools part 1: Why we need them, and then in March with updates in AI
- [Adobe Brings Firefly AI Generation Tools to Photoshop (beta)](https://pixelpainter.com/adobe-brings-firefly-ai-generation-tools-to-photoshop-beta/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – May 23, 2023 This is what we’ve been waiting for: real generative AI tools integrated inside of Photoshop. And it’s only just the beginning! With their latest Photoshop public beta (available to download with Creative Cloud), not only do we get the amazing Remove Tool, but Firefly Generative Fill, objects
- [AI Tools: Animations with Midjourney & After Effects](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-animations-with-midjourney-after-effects/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – July 31, 2023 You’ve most probably seen a lot of AI generated animations already using various tools like Runway Gen-2 and Kaiber that take either still images and animate a few seconds or direct text-to-video generative style animations that tend to look somewhat like a Psilocybin-induced trip. While they’re interesting
- [AI Tools Part 4: The Latest for Video, Film Production, 3D, Audio and more…](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-part-4-the-latest-for-video-film-production-3d-audio-and-more/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – August 28, 2023 Here we are at the end of August 2023. So much is happening so fast in Generative AI development, that I obviously can’t keep up with everything, but I will do my best to give you the latest updates on the most impressive AI Tools & techniques
- [AI Tools: HeyGen AI Video Avatars & Translations](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-heygen-ai-video-avatars-translations/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – September 28, 2023 HeyGen AI software is a ground-breaking AI technology, bringing video avatars and translations/dubbing to the average prosumer production. If you need a talking head video for marketing, training and how-to videos, then this is the place to start! Aside from all the other features, options, templates for generating
- [AI Tools: Runway AI World Jump Videos](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-runway-ai-world-jump-videos/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – October 31, 2023 Runway AI is one of the fastest growing AI Tools for video and animation creators. Their suite of tools expands beyond their generative AI offerings, but one trend that’s taking off recently is using their Gen 1 Video to Video tool to create AI videos that are
- [AI Tools Part 5: 2023 A Year in Review](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-part-5-2023-a-year-in-review/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – December 28, 2023 What a year it’s been for Generative AI technology and the tools that have been developed! When I first started the AI Tools series with Part 1 back in January of 2023, I could only see a sliver of what was to become in the months ahead. I
- [AI Tools: The List You Need Now! (Final Installment 2023)](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-the-list-you-need-now-final-installment-2023/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – December 31, 2023 Wrapping up the year’s list of AI Tools and updates this month. Be sure to look for my final article in the series AI Tools Part 5: 2023 A Year in Review to show just how far this technology has come in just 12 months! We’ll continue with only
- [AI Tools: Ultimate AI Upscaling with Magnific AI](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-ultimate-ai-upscaling-with-magnific-ai/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – January 28, 2024 While there are some amazing upscaling tools already on the market to clean up and restore blurry or low-res images, Magnific AI takes a different approach to Generative AI upscaling by allowing you to dive deep into an image and create amazing unseen details at high magnification. While using
- [AI Tools: OpenAI Reveals Sora and Shocks the AI Video Industry](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-openai-reveals-sora-and-shocks-the-ai-video-industry/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – February 17, 2024 On Thursday this week (Feb 15), Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT, DALL-E) released a sneak peek into our not-to-distant future of realistic AI generated text-to-video content with the announcement of their new model, Sora on a “Xitter” post: What is Sora? *From OpenAI website – *Creating video from text
- [AI Tools: Are AI developers really keeping us safe?](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-are-ai-developers-really-keeping-us-safe/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – March 20, 2024 With the latest developments in AI video software tools producing such real and believable results with cloning capabilities, we are now in a new age of disinformation and identify theft/IP rustling. What are some of the major players doing to attempt to protect the public from this threat
- [AI Tools: Video & Animation Advances for 2025](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-video-animation-advances-for-2025/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – January 29, 2025 It’s been awhile since I’ve posted much about the advancements of current AI Tools, and although I’ve had some successes in utilizing many of them for projects, we’re still a long way from AI doing ALL the work for producers/content creators. I’ll share some examples from my
- [AI Tools: Generative AI for Video & Animation Updates](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-generative-ai-for-video-animation-updates/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – May 28, 2025 If you’re on social media much these days, you’ve undoubtedly seen a major uptick in examples of some pretty amazing AI Generated videos coming out, and how creatives are making fun projects and even commercials and short films with these tools. It’s really an exciting time for
- [AI Tools: Video & Animation Come to Midjourney](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-video-animation-come-to-midjourney/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – June 30, 2025 Midjourney was my first real text-to-image AI tool experience starting back in 2022. I’ve watched it evolve as the industry swelled with competition and lots of other image, animation and video tools popping up almost weekly since. By January 2023, the tools started to evolve to a
- [AI Tools: ElevenLabs v3 Voices, SFX & Eleven Music](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-elevenlabs-v3-voices-sfx-eleven-music/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – August 29, 2025 I’ve been using the ElevenLabs TTS (Text To Speech) tool since they were first in beta a couple years ago, and have watched them get progressively better in quality and capabilities. Their most recent updates for voices, Sound FX and Music generation have really surpassed all previous
- [AI Tools: HeyGen Avatar IV Gets Real](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-heygen-avatar-iv-gets-real/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – September 14, 2025 Once again, HeyGen has updated their AI avatar capabilities (and there’s much more to come soon… stay tuned!) But I’m going to focus on just two major updates, HeyGen Avatar IV and Product Placement for influencers and marketers. Starting with just a simple product image and a script, you
- [AI Tools: AI Fails... You Can't Always Get What You Want!](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-ai-fails-you-cant-always-get-what-you-want/) - Published on ProVideo Coalition – October 29, 2025 Whenever a new version of an AI tool comes out, I try to test it against others and see how responsive (or useful) they may be. But certain instructions can still elude common sense with Generative AI – often when you give it even simple commands and
- [AI Tools: A Year in Review 2025](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-a-year-in-review-2025/) - My Year End look back at the state of AI this year. So much awesome it's totally epic to the max!
- [AI Tools: Adobe Firefly AI has gone Bananas!](https://pixelpainter.com/ai-tools-adobe-firefly-ai-has-gone-bananas/) - Released features Photoshop: Generative composition with Harmonize, next-level Generative Fill, and AI-powered object selection. Premiere Pro: Fast track masking and AI object mask for video editing. Adobe Express: Includes a new AI Assistant, Prompt, and Edit features. Lightroom: New AI assisted culling to help select the best photos faster. Firefly: Firefly Boards for moodboarding, and

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- [Pixel Painter Insights](https://pixelpainter.com/blog/) - Jeff's Personal Blog & feature articles covering AI-powered content creation, digital spokesperson systems, video workflows, and creative technology trends.
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