2 years ago

Electric Sheep Secures £400k Pre-Seed Funding to Replace Green Screens with AI

  • London-based AI startup Electric Sheep has raised £400,000 in a pre-seed round led by Dasein Capital, with participation from Spatial Capital and Look AI Ventures

  • The company's technology offers a faster alternative to green screens for background removal in film and TV production

  • Their AI-powered software can process footage 360 times faster than traditional rotoscoping, reducing the time required for one second of video from six hours to under a minute.

      • ProblemTechnology

      "Rotoscoping, the process of removing backgrounds from video footage, is extremely time-consuming, taking roughly six hours per second of video."

      Solution

      "Electric Sheep's AI technology can process one second of video in under a minute, making background removal 360 times faster. The software creates editable layers, known as splines, which VFX artists can use to make changes."

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