Ahead of its cinema release, Christopher Nolan famously made a big thing of saying that Oppenheimer didn’t include any CGI. That’s not the same as saying the film doesn’t contain any VFX, and so the matter’s now being clarified. For the, as has been mentioned here before, pivotal Trinity Test sequence, for example, the VFX […]
People working on Disney’s recent restoration of Cinderella were able to right a wrong that has been many years in the making, the gradual alteration and deterioration of the colours Disney concept artist Mary Blair intended for us to see on screen. Kevin Schaeffer, director of mastering at Walt Disney Studios, says of the problem, […]
This promo for German post-hardcore band ANNISOKAY’s new single ‘Throne Of The Sunset’, taken for their upcoming EP ABYSS Pt. 1 was made entirely inside Unreal Engine 5.2. The video was directed by Christoph Wieczorek, who also produced, mixed and mastered the music. The DoP was Peter Leukhardt and Arthur Baum took care of the […]
While machine learning has been in use in content creation for some time, the power of the technology to engineer massive change, “responsible AI”, “ethical AI” and generative AI dominated the agenda at the 50th SIGGRAPH conference in Los Angeles a few weeks ago. “[AI] is scary because of the speed at which it moves. […]
The two minute experimental short you see below was created as a Proof of Concept exercise by Sony Pictures Entertainment, Ghost Corps, Pixomondo, Playstation Studios and Epic Games and shown at the Sony Creators Conference. It was shot entirely using real-time game engine technology, specifically Unreal Engine, and a performance capture stage and filmed in […]
Everypixel Journal has been able to establish that 15 billion images have been generated by AI tools DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion and Adobe Firefly in the last year. To put that into context, photography was invented circa 1826 and it took until 1975 for the same number of pictures to be taken conventionally. a study by […]