Fine-Tune Friday: How Matt Uhry Blends Real Footage + AI to Direct a Winter Fox ❄️🦊

​Welcome to this week’s edition of our favorite series from the Oxen.ai Herd, Fine-Tune Fridays. Each week, we take an open-source model and put it head-to-head with a closed-source foundation model on a specialized task.

​We share practical, end-to-end examples, including reference data, model weights, and the full infrastructure needed to reproduce the experiments on your own.

​This Week
How can filmmakers combine real footage and AI to create realistic video scenes?

​This week we’re joined by director Matt Uhry, who will walk through how he blends real footage with generative AI tools to produce highly realistic video. In this case, he used footage of his dog, shot on real cameras in the field, and transformed it into a winter fox using a combination of LoRAs.

​We’ll explore the workflow behind integrating AI-generated visuals with live-action shots, and how different models can be used to enhance production rather than replace it.

​We’ll discuss the tools, creative process, and practical techniques used to bring AI-assisted scenes to life.

​Looking forward to seeing you there!