The team at ReadySet Studios in Amsterdam have put their expertise in virtual production and in-camera visual effects to good use in the music video for this year’s Dutch Eurovision entry – Mia Nicolai and Dion Cooper’s Burning Daylight. The shoot involved the use of physical sets of a restaurant, multiple versions of a living room […]
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Pixotope Pocket: smartphone-based virtual production training for students
To help the virtual production industry to find and nurture new talent, the new Pixotope Pocket mobile app, which has been launched with the support of 14 film schools around the world, has been created to allow students to produce immersive video content using just their phones. “What we make, it also requires high-end cameras […]
Virtual Producer launches free virtual production job board
If you are looking for a job yourself or need to hire someone for a full-time or contract role, the new Virtual Producer virtual production job board, which is free to use for everybody, is the place to visit. What type of jobs will it carry? virtual production previs postvis techvis Unreal Engine artists tracking […]
The 10 most expensive TV series of all time
A few days after the first season of Citadel arrived on Amazon Prime, said to have cost $300 million to produce, to put that figure into context, here’s a list, showing the cost per episode, of the Top 10 most expensive television shows ever made. 10 – The Crown – $6 million to $13 million […]
Fast food commercials get the generative AI treatment
Following on from yesterday’s ‘Synthetic Summer’ spoof, AI-generated TV commercial, others are following a similar path to see how far the current technology can be stretched. ‘Pepperoni Hugspot’ was made entirely using the following generative tools: script – GPT4 images – Midjourney video clips – Runway Gen2 voiceover – Eleven Labs music – SOUNDRAW AI […]
Experimental AI-generated beer ad ‘Synthetic Summer’ is the stuff of nightmares
This is, as somebody said earlier, almost too weird to post here, but it marks something of a watershed – a commercial generated entirely by artificial intelligence with minimal human involvement. According to Chris Boyle, co-founder of the ad’s creators Private Island, it was generated from text prompts using a mixture of Stable Diffusion, Midjourney […]