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 […]
Our friends at Move.ai have won a prestigious Immersive Innovation Award at SXSW (South By South West) in Austin Texas, brandished below by Head Of Partnerships & Delivery Niall Hendry. Move AI’s technology enables Motion Capture to take place in any environment using off-the-shelf cameras, mobile phones, computer vision and deep learning. Unlike other forms […]
GPT-4 (Generative Pre-trained Transformer 4) lands this week and it’s going to trigger some amazing advances in the use of generative AI. You will have it in your power to use AI to take a movie idea from your imagination to the screen without any external help, The arrival of GPT-4 was announced by Andreas […]
Deep Agency‘s virtual photo studio service uses advanced technology to create “100% AI-generated” models and virtual twins, removing the need for social media influencers, marketers and commercial photographers to spend money on certain types of conventional photo shoots. Virtual photographers choose which virtual “camera” to use (makes and models include the Fujifilm XT3, Canon EOS […]
While creating 3D models, editing, compositing and colour grading are much easier and less expensive now, the process of inserting a CG character in a scene is still very complicated. You first create a model with textures and so on, then mess around with motion capture studio green screen. Then those motion primitives need to […]
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has told an audience at SXSW that generative AI tools like their own ChatGPT are going to take over much of the “drudge work” involved in content creation and conjure up new “interactive” entertainment experiences for audiences. While actual screenwriting is perhaps a bridge too far, jobs where users […]