Seth MacFarlane‘s production company Fuzzy Door has deployed its tech division’s ViewScreen Studio real-time performance capture system on the production of the new Ted television series. While he directed and performed simultaneously – how does he do that? – the crew were able to insert his loveable but dysfunctional animated bear character into scenes involving […]
Too good not to share here, and reproduced in full from his original Linkedin post, Rob Chandler of Morden Wolf and the Starting Pixel WhatsApp group fame offers newbies to virtual production and in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) some valuable advice on what to do before you get underway. 1 – Grasp The Basics You may […]
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Square Garden Entertainment’s plans to build a Vegas-like sphere to the East of the Olympic Park in Stratford have been withdrawn by the company after it emerged that London mayor Sadiq Khan strongly opposed the project.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, […]