The arrival of the latest version of Midjourney is leading some, much to others’ horror, to look at the job of a commercial photographer in industries such as marketing and advertising as also encompassing being a professional generative AI prompter. Eric Groza, Executive Creative Director at McCann Worldgroup, based in Dubai, was inspired by MidJourney […]
Version 5 of the Midjurney AI image generator has arrived with some new enhancements, including recreating intricate details and textures, such as realistic skin texture, facial features and lighting as well as sorting out the problems it had dealing with human hands. However, as in this image created by Nick St. Pierre and shared on […]
The delivery part of the Draw & Code ‘KOKOverse’ demo at SXSW was handled by new “near zero” immersive streaming technology from Dolby.io. The software is currently still in development. It incorporates cloud-based Dolby Atmos mixing and video composition that enable low latency remote production, an essential, the essential, element of this kind of exercise. […]
At the Dolby House at SXSW today (Weds 15 March), our friends at Draw & Code combined Dolby.io’s real-time streaming technology and Move.ai’s motion capture system to stream a technology demo of a future performance capture pipeline for the music industry. The experiment, which was conducted in conjunction with KOKO in London’s Camden Town, involved […]
Details are emerging about U2’s role in the opening of the MSG Sphere at the Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas this autumn. At 150m wide and 90m high, the new multi-use 17,500 seat venue is going to be the tallest spherical structure on earth with the largest and highest-resolution LED screen in the world at […]
A bit of nostalgia for y’all as we approach NAB time. Many, many years ago, Bill Buxton, then Chief Scientist at Alias Wavefront, which was subsequently absorbed into the Autodesk empire, made these great commercials announcing a significant drop in the price of the company’s Maya 3D software. Autodesk currently charge £1,968 a year including […]