Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s plans to build a Vegas-like sphere to the East of the Olympic Park in Stratford have been withdrawn by the company after it emerged that London mayor Sadiq Khan strongly opposed the project. In December, Levelling-up Secretary Michael Gove offered a lifeline, saying had already issued an “Article 31 direction” and […]
ABBA Voyage has been a huge hit, with audiences, with many returning to see it multiple times. Between May 2022 and May 2023 more than 1 million seats were sold, with 20% of attendees travelling to the UK for the experience. The producers are proud to be able to say that the show, which runs […]
10 films will advance in the Special Visual Effect category. Members of the SVFX chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 73 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement and a show-reel of the SVFX work (up […]
The predictions are that, through tools like Stable Video Diffusion, Pika, Runway, Meta’s Emu Video and, soon-ish, Midjourney, generative video is going to be one of the big talking points and disruptors in 2024 And if the predictions are correct, more video content creators will start to learn how to automatically edit footage, synthesise voiceovers, […]
For those of you who are less familiar with this aspect of content origination, motion or performance capture is the term most commonly used to describe the digital capture of movement of an object or person. The most common forms of modern motion capture systems Magnetic – The performer wears sensors at key points of the […]
disguise is taking steps to promote the use of 2.5D workflows in virtual production, but what does that actually mean? Unlike 2D plates, 2.5D offers a hint of dimensionality without the full complexity of real-time 3D environments. A 2.5D workflow, often regarded as the bridge between 2D and 3D, involves layering multiple 2D images with […]