Recreating the ten-minute Trinity nuclear test sequence for Oppenheimer in-camera, to preserve the quality of the film stock, was a big challenge for special effects supervisor Scott Fisher and visual effects supervisor Andrew Jackson and involved a lot of experimentation. The sequence took several weeks to film and the process was quite fragmented. How it […]
Film critic Rhianna Dhillon and BBC technology correspondent Marc Cieslak watch and react to four examples of content made using generative AI tools.
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 […]