Creating digital humans for face replacement, de-aging, digital makeup and character creation is one of the hottest areas of VFX development, and its time may have come as we look at ways to “science the s***” out of getting actors to interact on screen while maintaining a safe distance. With its PaGAN and PaGAN II […]
Aardman Animations is working with Fictioneers, a British creative consortium, on a new Wallace and Gromit project that will be available this autumn as a downloadable mobile AR app for iOS and Android devices. Carolyn Giardina writing in The Hollywood Reporter tells us that The Big Fix Up is a partnership between Aardman and consortium […]
After consulting several US studios, the BFI, the British Film Commission, Pact, BECTU and the UK government, the UK Screen Alliance has published a guidance document for post production and visual effects companies to help them operate safely during the current health crisis. Get the document “Guidance for safe working in Post-Production and Visual Effects […]
The Times reports (paywall in place) that Cineworld is hoping to reopen in all locations by July, with enhanced cleaning and social-distancing measures in place, naturally,. and is seeking a loan of $180 million to keep it afloat. How many new films they will be able to screen is another matter, and we might find […]
Today,, the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute (DLI) launches a series of online courses and instructor-led remote workshops for developers, data scientists, students, and researchers, spanning topics such as deep learning for multi-GPUs to accelerated data science. The NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute offers hands-on training in AI, accelerated computing, and accelerated data science. offering practical experience […]
Are virtual actors close enough to becoming sufficiently photo-realistic and human that they can at least substitute for human actors in all but close-up shots, if not in some cases displace and replace them entirely? Hollywood-based artists agency CAA recently signed up a new client, virtual Brazilian model / dancer Lil Miquela, writes Steve Rose […]
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