How filmmakers trick us into thinking that characters and objects are larger, smaller, farther away or closer than they really are A fascinating look behind the scenes at how visual effects companies, and particularly, here, Wētã FX, use camera angles, floating monitors, platforms, performance capture, virtual cameras and props to draw us in and sell […]
Oblivion The Lion King Rogue One: A Star Wars Story The Irishman The Midnight Sky Bullet Train War for the Planet of the Apes Red Notice The Batman Ford v Ferrari Ghost In The Shell To Gun: Maverick A few highlights Oblivion – “the floors, walls, and ceilings of the towers were physical set pieces, […]
Hot on the heels of a new version Midjourney and the launch of GPT-4, Runway, whose web-based video editor specialises in background removal and pose detection and who helped to develop open-source text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, has trailed the imminent arrival of Gen-2, a new version of its text-to-video tool. Gen-1 allows users to amend existing […]
NantStudios’ new $60 million, 25,000 square foot at Docklands Studios in Melbourne, which is due to open in May, boasts the largest permanent LED volume installed in any facility in the world so far – 88 metres wide, 289 metres in length and 12 metres high and comprising 6,000 tiles, double the size of its […]
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 […]