Cannes Next is “an executive conference and innovation-driven business development platform exploring the future of the entertainment sector … [and] a unique gathering enhancing partnerships and fostering business opportunities by connecting world-class creativity with cutting-edge business and technological innovation”. The organisers have announced a 19 May Global Virtual Production Summit involving Disguise and Film Soho featuring interactive workshops, masterclasses […]
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The 2023 Best Picture Oscar nominee productions in numbers, plus the cameras and lenses used
Below are the results of research carried out by Lisa McNamara of frame.io into the budgets, crew size and duration of both principal photography and post-production for each of the Best Picture nominees at the 2023 Academy Awards. Below that, we show the cameras and lenses used on the films nominated for Beat Picture and Best […]
A roundup of new generative AI tools for filmmakers
In an article for Virtual Producer, as well as providing an introduction to generative AI and the possibilities it provides to content creators, Noah Kadner highlights a number of tools that are going to set the world of filmmaking alight. Here are some that you might not yet be familiar with. Cuebric by Seyhan Lee […]
The metaverse’s future according to Epic Games
Following an Epic Games event at the recent Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco that included a slew of announcements: animation tools for virtual humans a merging of its digital asset stores into one huge marketplace a new Fortnite creator economy, an Unreal Engine-powered creation tool for Fortnite The Verge’s Andrew Webster spoke to CEO Tim […]
Gagosian art gallery hosts film director Bennett Miller’s Dall-E experiment
International art gallery network Gagosian, which has a number of spaces in New York City, three London; two in Paris; and one each in Basel, Beverly Hills, Rome, Athens, Geneva and Hong Kong, has opened an exhibition of untitled works by DALL-E. The exhibition is produced by Oscar-nominated film director Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher, Capote) who has […]
Used correctly, AI is an “amplification of what humans can do” in content creation
AI is expected to gain a foothold in the content creation industry in several key areas: script development and scriptwriting, pre-production, including storyboarding, casting and location scouting digital doubles, de-ageing and other actor-related applications quick, inexpensive image generation requiring minimal human intervention Matters around IP and copyright aside, machine learning models, chatbots and other forms […]