Warner Bros. Discovery has announced that it is investing £400 million in an expansion of its Leavesden Studios complex in Hertfordshire that will include 400,000 square feet of new production and support space. Work is expected to begin in Q2 2024. When completed in 2027, the studios will have 29 stages and 1.78 million square […]
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The Antikythera Mechanism from ‘The Dial Of Destiny’ recreated in LEGO (video)
If you have seen the latest (final?) instalment of the Indiana Jones tales, you’ll be aware that it’s about a race to prevent the Antikythera Mechanism falling into the wrong hands and really, really bad stuff happening. The device, which was discovered in the wreckage of a sunken ship off the coast of Greece in […]
Hey Macarena: Broadcast TECH’s MoveAI demo (video)
A team from Broadcast TECH, including Editorial Director Jake Bickerton, visited MoveAI’s offices in London’s West End to get a demo of the company’s most accessible system to date. This non-real-time application uses four iPhones – here mounted on tripods – to get a full performance capture. Once the performance data is captured and processed, […]
Multi-week YouTube campaign displays 32 NFL helmets on MSG Sphere
The MSG Sphere‘s first multi-week advertising campaign, with YouTube, was for the NFL Sunday Ticket, which gives fans access to all out-of-market Sunday afternoon games on a subscription basis. In the weeks running up to the season launch on Thursday 7 September, an animation showing all 32 NFL team helmets was available for all to see on […]
Tomorrow knows what generative AI can do for music promos
This video for The Beatles’ Tomorrow Never Knows from Revolver was generated using Lennon and McCartney’s lyrics as prompts.
Exploding the myth surrounding ‘Oppenheimer”s VFX
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 […]
