In partnership with HP, who will provide powerful new Z-series workstations and its Engineering Emmy award-winning HP Anywhere technology,, Pathway in Manchester has opened a new £1 million, 6,000 square foot production facility and Innovation Lab dedicated to the development of real-time virtual production and in-camera visual effects (ICVFX). The facility in Trafford Park includes […]
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Escape from the uncanny valley with Mondatum
Our human face recognition skills are pretty impressive. We are adept at it after about 4 months. On average, we can remember about 5,000 and clocking one we know takes about half a second. But how do we make synthetic, digital humans that meet our strict believability requirements? The “uncanny valley hypothesis” was first put […]
Universal Scene Description explained
Universal Scene Description (USD) was invented by Pixar to help them assemble and interchange movie scenes. Since Pixar open-sourced USD in 2016, it has grown to become the interchange format that brings consistency and interoperability to 3D artists when building three-dimensional and immersive locations, scenes or environments, including multiverses and digital twins. A USD layer […]
Georges Méliès’ Forgotten Stories: a new book on Kickstarter
Launched initially as a Kickstarter campaign – how about a pledge as a Christmas gift, folks? – the family of Georges Méliès have gathered together a collection of stories found in libraries and family archives that shed more light on the life and work one of the most intriguing and important figures in the history […]
VP key skills requirements: a heatmap
Our friend Nathan Bazley in Brisbane, Australia has been at it again with the infographics. This time he’s produced this excellent key skills ‘heatmap’ for anybody wishing to get into virtual production and ICVFX. Image source: Frame.io Insider
AI editing: an experiment by Tim Wuolle
It’s undoubtedly going to be a controversial view, but virtual production, immersive and emerging technology specialist Tim Wuolle has asserted in a Linkedin post that, in the near future, during the post production of visual content, AI is going to start to play an important role the editing process, particularly for the creation of montages. […]