{"id":163996,"date":"2022-12-21T07:16:04","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T07:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/south-park-creators-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-land-20-million-in-funding-for-their-deepfake-vfx-studio\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T07:16:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T07:16:04","slug":"south-park-creators-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-land-20-million-in-funding-for-their-deepfake-vfx-studio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/south-park-creators-trey-parker-and-matt-stone-land-20-million-in-funding-for-their-deepfake-vfx-studio\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone Land $20 Million in Funding for Their Deepfake VFX Studio"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone are going deeper into Deep Voodoo.<\/p>\n

The creators of \u201cSouth Park\u201d have secured a $20 million investment for their AI entertainment startup Deep Voodoo. The funding was led by Connect Ventures, an investment partnership between CAA and venture-capital firm New Enterprise Associates (NEA). It’s the first outside capital raised by Deep Voodoo, which previously was funded entirely by Parker and Stone’s independent entertainment company, Park County.<\/p>\n

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Stone and Parker plan to use the new funding to \u201caccelerate Deep Voodoo’s development of its leading deepfake technology, cost-effective visual effects services and original synthetic media projects,\u201d according to the announcement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stumbled upon this amazing technology and ended up recruiting the best deepfake artists in the world,\u201d Stone said in a statement. \u201cWe are psyched to share their brilliance with the Hollywood creative community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Stone and Parker’s Deep Voodoo began building their proprietary deepfake technology in early 2020, and the duo assembled a team of artists for a feature film about Donald Trump they had developed. In October of that year, they released \u201cSassy Justice,\u201d a 14-minute comedy short featuring a deepfaked Trump (voiced by Peter Serafinowicz), which went viral. But they suspended the movie project due to the COVID pandemic, and pivoted Deep Voodoo to be a provider of deepfake tools to the industry.<\/p>\n

Deep Voodoo provided VFX for Kendrick Lamar’s \u201cThe Heart Part 5\u201d music video, released in May 2022, in which Lamar’s face transforms into the visions of OJ Simpson, Jussie Smollett, Nipsey Hussle, Kobe Bryant and Kanye West.<\/p>\n