At Infocomm 2023 in Orlando, Florida, Samsung has shown the latest addition to The Wall range of LED displays, designed to make virtual production for TV, film and other creative industries faster and easier. They’re offering pixel pitch options of P1.68 and P2.1, dedicated studio frame rates (23.976, 29.97 and 59.94Hz) and genlocking (sync’ing the screen with […]
Next week, South West London plays host to the second annual Kingston International Film Festival (KIFF) – 23-25 June – which “aims to bring the film community together along with industry professionals from all over the globe for three glittering days of screenings, workshops and events”. “We now have an inaugural festival under our belts […]
Pathway in Manchester recently shot a sequence using 65mm film – specifically Kodak VISION3 65mm 200T Colour Negative Film stock with an ARRIFLEX 765, as used on Gravity and Tenet, and ARRI Rental Vintage 765 lenses – on their virtual production stage. For this first-of-its-kind test, they worked closely with Kodak, Panavision, and Arri Rental […]
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 […]
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 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 […]