The team at Moonvalley, a Los Angeles Video-Generation AII start, does not believe that you can urge your way to make a movie. That is why the company opened the model of “3D-AWARE” on Tuesday, promises an “hybrid” approach that gives filmmakers more control over other patterns of video text models.
Moonvalley started her model for the first time, named Marey, at Beta in March and now released it as a monthly subscription based on credits. Users can pay $ 14.99 for 100 credits, $ 34.99 for 250 points and $ 149.99 for $ 1,000. Users can create a clip of up to five seconds, which are in line with industry standards for the available video game models.
The start, founded by former Deepmind researchers who worked on Google’s video clips, claims that Marey is one of the few models that have been entirely trained in open licensed data. This fits Moonvalley’s target customers: filmmakers who want to avoid future lawsuits created by AI that may resemble copyright protected material.
For independent director ángel Manuel Soto, Marey’s biggest selling point is that it is democratizing access to the top AI narrative tools, especially for people who have long felt closed from traditional cinema production. Growing up in Puerto Rico, Sooto said that you would first need to scratch hundreds or thousands of dollars just to rent cameras to make a movie.
“Back home. We had to ask for permission to tell our stories,” he said. “AI enables you to do it on your own terms without having to say no to your dreams because someone refused to fund it because they did not believe that a story from your country could return a profit.”
Now, says Soto, Marey has helped him reduce production costs by 20% to 40% and work freely.
Soto previously worked with Moonvalley’s studio, Asteria, on HBO Docuseries “Menudo: Forever Young”. Asteria, also known as XTR, was acquired this year by Moonvalley, according to Hemant Taneja, Managing Director of General Catalyst. (GC was an important shareholder in starfish and invested more money in the combined entity.)
Marey’s “Hybrid Cinema” approach
Moonvalley’s chief executive and co-founder Naeem Talukdar showed TechCrunch how Marey could be used in the pre-production, either for scene testing before receiving or adjusting the camera angles after the event and how it can control objects, characters, scene movement.
Talukdar told TechCrunch that Marey has an understanding of the natural world that could translate into a more interactive narrative as technology develops. Right now, this kind of understanding-which Marey is shared with other models such as Google’s VEO 3 and Openai’s Still-private Sora-allows Marey to do things like Mimic Motion, while still respecting the laws of physics.
For example, a video of a sprinting pebble through grass can be translated into a Cadillac struggling through the same environment, with grass and dirt responding to the car movement. Or, Marey can go beyond a character that looks like George Washington into an actor, translating everything from the actor’s facial movements into his arms as he handles.
Perhaps more unique is Marey’s support for free camera movement. Talukdar has shown how he allows you to shift the camera orbit with your mouse: incorporates a frying pan and slides into a video of a woman on a train on the rocks simply dragging his cursor. He also noted that Marey could achieve the camera movement close to 360 degrees and obey the instructions on the creation of materials as if shot by a portable camera or dolly.
Marey can also change the background of the videos, allowing filmmakers to start with source shots to build the scene they want. Talukdar played a video of a man driving a motorcycle on a suburban road, which then evolved into the same man, without a helmet, driving a slightly different bike on a highway.
Moonvalley’s plan in the coming months is to develop new controls such as lighting, deep orbits and character libraries, Talukdar said.
Marey’s public liberation puts it in direct rivalry with a growing AI-Model video field such as the Gen-3 corridor, Dream Machine LumaPika, and haiper.
Additional reports by Marina Temkin.
