If you’re a regular cinema-goer, you’ll have seen the teaser announcement for Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer, about the Manhattan Project and the birth of the atomic bomb, featuring the excellently simple and oh-so-effective real-time countdown to its 21 July release date. Racking up the tension second by second, it made it clear to audiences that they […]
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A comprehensive list of Midjourney commands
Along with others such as Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, Midjourney is one powerful AI bot that allows users to create images via text prompts on Discord to, amongst other things fine tune the process, modify default settings and monitor user profiles. These commands can be used in any bot channel on private Discord servers, where the […]
LG launches new MAGNIT Micro LED panel specifically for VP and XR stages
LG has launched its new LBAF015-G1 Micro LED panel – click on link and scroll down for Physical Parameters, Optical Specification and more – delivering “premium picture quality with deep blacks and vibrant, natural colors, helping directors to create immersive visual experiences” and aimed specifically at the virtual production studio and XR stage market. The […]
‘Fathead’ wins student short award at Cannes
Fathead, a film that aims to show off what can be achieved using today’s virtual production, in-camera VFX and collaborative, cloud-based workflows, has won an award at the 76th annual Cannes Film Festival. “When one of the last free children of Junkyard Paradise has her brother stolen away from her, no Ragamuffin army or vicious beasts […]
New short film from artist Paul Trillo created using generative AI tools
The eerie, haunting Thank You for Not Answering is “co-directed” with Runway and intended to evoke a feeling of loneliness and isolation in the viewer The characters’ blank eyes, distended limbs and distorted features reveal the truth of how they came to exist. They effect created “feels closer to dreaming” says the filmmaker. “It’s closer […]