This early attempt at computer-generated parametric facial animation, which was first uploaded to YouTube in 2010, is by acknowledged pioneer in the field Fred Parke, Fred started out in the US military in the Sixties, developing weapons simulation software. For his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Utah (1972-1974) he conducted his facial […]
A team of Netflix researchers, including Paul Debevec, has created a new, faster and more accurate AI-powered form of green screen – Magenta Green Screen (MGS) – that uses magenta light and can produce realistic VFX in real-time. Actors are filmed against a background of bright green LEDs. They are lit from the front by […]
Manchester Animation Festival, which was first established in 2015, has been granted Academy Award-winning status, meaning it’s the only dedicated event of its kind in the UK that allows winners to enter the Oscars’ Best Short Film stakes. “It’s an honour to represent both Manchester and the UK animation community by standing with some of […]
Virtual production incubator Pathway Indie’s £1.98m/$2.5 million in-kind funding programme in partnership with HP has been launched. It has been created to assist with “the development of new product ideas for cross-media formats that span the convergence of film, television and video games”. “Pathway Indie is set-up much like a tech start-up incubator for the […]
During the pandemic, AV equipment rental and systems integration company Anna Valley co-opted part of its West London HQ as affordable studio space to help their production clients to cope with the upheaval. Building on this, a new multi-purpose studio complex is opening in July comprising five flexible spaces that can be configured to suit […]
Some of the words and phrases you will mostly commonly come across as you go deeper into the world of machine learning, chatbots, generative tools and other forms of artificial intelligence. Natural Language Processing (NLP): This is the field of study that focuses on the interaction between computers and humans through natural language. The goal […]