With the intention of achieving interoperability of all on-set equipment, SMPTE has published the first of its Rapid Industry Solutions (RIS) On-Set Virtual Production Camera and Lens Metadata guidelines. The initial focus is traditional VFX, with cameras, lenses and camera tracking to follow. The project can be found in this Github repository. Reference code is […]
Apple Music’s Zane Lowe takes Bono and The Edge to the construction site that is the 20,000 capacity MSG Sphere at The Venetian hotel on The Strip in Las Vegas and, look, not a hi vis jacket or hard hat in sight! U2 open the venue, which is clad in 580,000 square feet of fully […]
An introduction to this new, cutting-edge filmmaking technology, by StudioBinder, including how virtual production works, the pros and cons of working with LED screens and in-camera visual effects, and why it may be here to stay This 15 minute taster features contributions from notable virtual production pioneers such as DPs Sir Roger Deakins, Greig Fraser […]
Tom Cruise is well-known for liking to do his own stunts where possible and has a list of mishaps behind him that remind us they don’t always go to plan, but how much of Top Gun: Maverick, and particularly the stuff that happened ‘up top’, was real and how much was CG? Actors in the […]
The slogan on Epic Light Media‘s Linkedin page says it all – “We don’t subscribe to the norms. We don’t subscribe to boring. We make films people love to watch, simple as that”. Their new “mixed-reality” studio is a home-brewed, hacked delight designed specifically for corporate interviews that need to appear to be conducted in a […]
Writing in Wednesday’s Financial Times, former ITV Chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette, currently co-chair of the UK’s Creative Industries Council and council chair at the Royal College of Art, highlighted the fact that if our screen- and music-based, fashion, advertising, publishing industries are to grow, “createch” needs an influx of workers skilled in traditional production, live […]