Virtual production techniques involving high-resolution, direct view LED screens and the use of in-camera visual effects offers filmmaking creatives such as set designers, stunt coordinators, directors and VFX teams huge efficiencies and freedom. They have large canvases, sophisticated game engine technology and complex creative toolsets at their fingertips. Producers can gain more control of their […]
Follow this video by Adam Kyle Wilson, designer and co-founder at Polyform Studio, to find out, in steps, how to prompt Midjourney to produce for you the best possible results Build a story Choose a visual style Create a storyboard Generate images using prompts 2,700 renders later … Refine in Photoshop We are here to […]
After revisiting the copyright of the graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn, the U.S. Copyright Office (USCO) has decided that AI-generated images are not protectable under current copyright law, as they “are not the product of human authorship”. The USCO has asserted that copyright protection was originally granted to the book’s author Kris Kashtanova in […]
The ChatGPT artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI, is being described as most popular internet app ever. It turns out that it was originally released as a “research preview” for two-year-old technology that was being prepared for something much grander. Its reception has come as a complete surprise to the OpenAI team who have been […]
I got feedbacks from people in the VFX suggesting to represent it with Spaghettis 😃 Hans Godard Hans Godard, Principal Technical Artist at Team Kaiju, who previously worked at Blizzard and Naughty Dog, produced this (updated) and what appears to be mildly controversial diagram to show how the pipelines and workflows in visual effects and […]
In the field of artificial intelligence, generative models, are based on diffusion models. These in turn are inspired by the world of physics and specifically non-equilibrium thermodynamics, which governs phenomena like the spread of fluids and gases. Generative models can do something that neural networks have always struggled with; use their training data to generate […]