Parsa Bozorgani

The short version

1. Every card on this wall came out of a system he built. Start with the person who builds the systems.
2. He rotoscoped a film by hand once, frame by frame, and decided never again — so he built a pipeline to do it for him.
3. The first thing that pipeline produced was a whole film. “Howling”, generated end to end, with no camera involved.
4. Festival juries did not much care how it was made. Twenty-four awards, across four continents.
5. Musicians saw the film and came asking. The same pipeline made “A State of Mind” — six rotoscoped parts for one album.
6. At that point it stopped being a private trick. He productized it as Soby, an animation engine other people can drive.
7. Pointed at a client’s problem, the same machinery became an AI art critic judging children’s drawings for a Toronto arts charity.
8. Then fifty more of them: small, focused AI tools for creators, shipped in ten languages.
9. Today the systems have paying customers. Adleep builds the lead engine; BeamShyft runs on it across New England.
10. Hackers & Painters is a venture studio for people who are both at once. He is its proof of concept.
11. The keynote — “form follows curiosity” — turned into a classroom, teaching artists to fold these tools into their own practice.
12. That is the wall: one person at both ends of it, still building the tool before the work. He answers his own email.