A fascinating look behind the scenes at how visual effects companies, and particularly, here, Wētã FX, use camera angles, floating monitors, platforms, performance capture, virtual cameras and props to draw us in and sell us illusions.
Source: Movie Insider on YouTube
At the Zhongguancun Forum in Beijing last weekend, Chinese startup Shengshu Technology and Tsinghua University unveiled Vidu, a new text-to-video model to compete with OpenAI’s Sora that generates “realistic” 1080p clips up to 16 seconds in length (compared to Sora’s 60 seconds) “with dynamic camera movements, detailed facial expressions, and natural lighting and shadows”.. The […]
Project Arena is software developer Chaos‘s real-time ray tracing solution for virtual production. It is currently being tested at a number of well-known LED stages with the ambition of having it ready for release by the end of the year. As well as accurate lighting, global illumination, the ability to make real-time adjustments to scenes […]