Evan Shapiro is a “media cartographer, producer, analyst – and iconoclast”, writes Michael Burns on IBC 365. He was at IBC in Amsterdam in September to deliver a keynote address – Charting Disruption With Graphic Content. What are his views on the state we find ourselves in? “The Hollywood shutdown is really crushing everyone, but […]
CNET video host and producer Abrar Al-Heeti visits Dolby‘s lab to find out how the company designs Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos to give viewers the optimum immersive visual and aural experience when watching content powered by its technology. 0:00 Intro 0:38 What is Dolby Vision & Dolby Atmos 1:07 Inside Dolby Biophysical Lab 1:22 […]
New York-based Simon Pulman of Pryor Cashman has posted on Linkedin about what it’s going to be like in the aftermath of the actors’ strike, assuming the union and the employers can reach an agreement. He hints at the post-strike opportunities awaiting us from 2024 to 2026 and the attributes required to be able to […]
David Fincher is known for exploring new filmmaking technologies (digital cinematography with ‘Se7en’, de-ageing with ‘The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button’). Although he acknowledges the pioneering work being conducted by his peers, he’s steering clear of AI cinematography for the time being. “I think AI’s a really powerful tool. And for my money, I have […]
A new, post-IBC, report from Futuresource Consulting shows that (on-set) virtual production (OSVP or VP), in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) and extended reality (XR) have passed through the “hype phase” and are about to enter the second stage of their development as more of the technology begins to reach a level of maturity; getting more refined […]
This video from day 3 of SIGGRAPH 2023 by the team at the ETC (Entertainment Technology Centre) at the University of Southern California, AKA ETC@USC, shows a demo by Fernando Rivas-Manzaneque and Orlando Avila-Garcia, co-founders of Volinga of real-time rendering of a NeRF in a real virtual production environment, which they claim was a world’s […]