The digital content pioneers are lending the wider community some of their expertise in the form of these informative, well-produced tutorials on how to get the best out of LED stages, camera tracking technology and real-time 3D systems Join us for an educational journey through the details of Virtual Production! Netflix has produced a series […]
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University of Hertfordshire to spin up new film studio in 2025
Propeller Stage One will be a new £500,000 facility in a former architecture studio. It will open next year and will be used for both student training and commercial film and television projects. Those that employ UoH students will be able to hire the studio at a significantly reduced rate The project’s prime mover is […]
Shutterstock goes big on ethics with new GenAI 3D assets
At SIGGRAPH 2024, Shutterstock launched a new multi-modal tool that generates 3D assets from text and image prompts, including ready-to-edit meshes, UVs, and 4K PBR materials, with an immediate focus on servicing the needs of Enterprise-sized businesses, via an API. HP and WPP are early adopters. “In September, we will release a more open self-serve […]
Chinese AI video generator Kling is now available internationally
Kling, which launched nationally last month, is now available to users around the world. It can produce 2-minute 30 fps / 720p HD videos using prompts up to 2,000 characters in length. Users can also create 5-second clips using text and image inputs and then incrementally extend their length by 4.5 seconds at a time. […]
The eyes have it: how to detect a deepfake
Employing techniques used by astronomers to “measure the shapes of galaxies”, a team of researchers at the University of Hull led by Masters student Adejumoke Owolabi has found that deepfaked humans don’t have the same consistency in reflections across both eyes, allowing them to tell if a portrait of a human was AI-generated or not. […]
150 NVIDIA workstation GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere’s displays
You might be surprised to learn that the 750,000 square feet of screens at Sin City’s mildly astonishing new visitor attraction are powered by 150 of NVIDIA’s RTX A6000 desktop workstation GPUs, each with 48GB RAM and over 10,752 cores and 300W TDP (Thermal Design Power).. To save you firing up your Calculator app, that […]