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 […]
In the last week, Reach, home of the Daily Mirror and the Express, has begun to use bots to produce things like listicles for local news sites, such as 7 things to do with visitors to show off Newport. Where else is generative AI being used in journalism today? An early adopter, Associated Press (AP), […]
Using a box lined with ROE LED screens driven by Disguise GX2c media servers, rental company and friends of Mondatum Universal Pixels helped the production team on BBC One crime drama Better to complete multiple internal car scenes during an intense three day shoot. The ‘Better’ crew was pretty new to this type of in-camera visual effects […]
To help address a yawning skills gap, the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art (LAMDA) is to offer virtual production technology training to students using a £1.9 million capital grant from the Office for Students, England’s independent regulator for higher education. It’s a first for a drama school in the UK. Training will be […]