As strike action in Hollywood passes its 100th. day, union members have been issued a warning by SAG-AFTRA ahead of Halloween – don’t dress up as a film or TV character from a show affected by the industrial action and post images of yourself on social media. “Let’s use our collective power to send a […]
An interview with the band’s legendary live set designer and “creative spirit”, originally published on livedesignonline.com and reproduced here in full. When did you and U2 know you were opening Sphere and did it seem like a daunting project? The idea first came up about two years ago and initially I wasn’t terribly keen. The […]
Image-based lighting (IBL) is changing and improving the way that creative teams use LED stages for virtual production shoots In virtual production, IBL involves displaying image sequences on separate lower resolution indirect view LED screens that provide incidental light and reflections to create a more dynamic, colour-accurate scene. Conventional lighting fixtures will remain important tools […]
It is fairly common knowledge in the creative community that Adobe has been looking at ways to use machine learning to optimise editing workflows in Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere. At its annual Adobe MAX creative conference, they teased work-in-progress “cutting-edge, experimental technologies that could someday become features in Adobe products“. Project Fast Fill for video […]
If you’re interested in computer vision and that’s a question you’ve been asking yourself, along with NeRFs (Neural Radiance Fields), it refers to real-time radiance field rendering of photorealistic scenes learned from (in this case small) samples of images. Here’a a well-written explanation by Esri’s Arkadiusz (Arek) Szadkowski, on Linkedin. In volume rendering, you deal […]
If you have a favourite analogue SLR camera that you’d like to start using again but you don’t want to get into the rigmarole of processing film, you might be interested in I’m Back Film. It’s a drop-in digital film cartridge containing, to keep costs down, a 20-megapixel Micro Four Thirds image sensor (2x crop […]