It’s been a week and a bit of speaking and hosting engagements for Mondatum, racking up the miles as we went. Z by HP UK Channel Conference – Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge Wacom North with Scan Computers – Impossible Theatre, Manchester UK Screen Alliance session on AI in VFX in animation – FOCUS 2023, London Sandwiched […]
“Step into a world of creative filmmaking, driven by human talent, and enhanced by AI technologies“ The AI Film Festival (AIFFF) takes place at Expo City Dubai next February. The competition to submit films for consideration is now closed and the judges have begun deliberating. The finalists will be announced in late January, giving us the chance to vote for our Audience Choice award favourite. The awards ceremony itself […]
Stability AI‘s latest, early, experimental “open-weights” image-to-video synthesis tool, Stable Video Diffusion, consists of two models: one, “SVD”, can produce image-to-video synthesis at 14 frames of length another, “SVD-XT”, generates 25 frames They can operate at varying speeds from 3 to 30 frames per second, and output short (typically 2-4 second-long) MP4 video clips at […]
During a panel discussion at the recent Bloomberg New Economy Forum in Singapore, former Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told moderator Timothy L O’Brien that three years from now, thanks to AI (machine learning), completing a world-class animated film will require 90% less time and labour than when he was making them. “I don’t know […]
Kodak first announced that the company was developing a new Super 8 camera back in 2016, at CES. It’s finally coming to market, for just under $5,500. A ‘soft’ launch in the US in December will be followed by similar announcements in Canada, the UK and around Europe. What’s inside the box Pelican Case KODAK […]
Bryan Hinckley and Rich Brown of 7th Sense Technology explain how uncompressed 16K video is piped to the enormous curved screen inside and outside the MSG Sphere using powerful and essentially robust networked processing technology and new protocols such as SMPTE 2110.