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 […]
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This’ll make your head explode …
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 […]
Markerless MoCap pioneers Move AI honoured at SXSW
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 arrives this week and you can use it to make videos
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 is a photographic model agency with no cameras … or models
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 […]
AI-powered Wonder Studio simplifies “objective non-creative” CG character tasks
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 […]