The Sphere Studios Big Sky ultra-high resolution camera system is used to capture images displayed on the interior and exterior screens of the MSG Sphere in Las Vegas. The system features the largest cinema camera sensor in the world – 18K – “that is almost 7x larger and 40x higher resolution than the full-frame sensors […]
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Artificial intelligence isn’t foolproof
Researchers from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen assert that it is impossible to develop AI tools that will always be stable The main purpose of the research was to describe the problem in the language of mathematics and establish exactly how much noise must algorithms be able to withstand, and […]
European Commission orders CO2 impact calculator for content production
With thanks to Mick Broderick of FNL Media Solutions for sharing this announcement on Linkedin … The European Commission is paying for a calculator to be developed that assesses the CO2 impact (emissions, carbon footprint) of the audio visual content creation industry on the environment using a standard methodology. The consortium leading the project comprises […]
New documentary ‘Eno’ tells a different story of the man every time it’s screened
The 2024 Sundance Film Festival (18-28 January) hosted the premiere of Eno, a new documentary charting the career of one of the music industry’s greatest living innovators. The film, by Gary Hustwit and generative AI specialist Brendan Dawes, is unusual in that a new version is created every time it is watched, using the amusingly anagrammatic […]
Rediscovering the fun of screen-based advertising, in real-time
The incorporation of real-time 3D into linear live action productions is the kind of gift that the ad industry would normally accept from Hollywood as quickly as you can say “design brief. So far, though, with some notable exceptions like the EE Made For Gamers spot below, it doesn’t feel like that has really been […]
Prompting royalty recreates The Simpsons as lifelike characters
A generative artist who goes by the name Princess Prompt has published a set of pretty stunning images she created using the latest generative AI tools showing what The Simpsons might look like in real life. This is not a new thing, but the quality just keeps getting better and better … Below is a […]