Reality Heist is a five-minute original story of a scientist who can skip dimensions at the flick of a switch. The short, which was made by a team of students at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, blends traditionally rendered photorealistic CGI with in-camera visual effects and was shot on the NFTS’s new […]
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LG and Unity partner to create meta-homes and digital humans
LG Electronics and Unity have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to create meta-homes, enabling users to spend time in highly accurate ‘digital twins’ of their personal living spaces that include all the LG products in their real homes. For convenience, and, let’s face it, at the moment, a bit of a giggle, adjustments to […]
Bringing Roman emperors to life using Photoshop and Artbreeder
Cinematographer Daniel Voshart and Lausanne-based Tunisian artist Haroun Bin have used H. V. Canter’s book Personal Appearance in the Biography of the Roman Emperors as a reference to reconstruct the heads of more than sixty of the most important figures in ancient history. The project took eight months in total and bringing each one to […]
AI-generated comic-book art faces copyright backlash
Shortly after South Korean comic-book artist (or should that be graphic novel illustrator?) Kim Jung Gi passed away unexpectedly in October at the age of 47, French motion designer 5you fed Gi’s work into a neural network as a form of tribute. Apart from a few telltale signs that the images were AI-generated, the results […]
Unite 2022 to feature world’s first multi-destination, cross-platform virtual concert
Working with creative partners VRrOOm on VRChat, Future Fest and Volta, Unity will broadcast a first of its kind multi-destination and cross-platform virtual concert featuring TikTok bass sensation Blu DeTiger at its Unite 2022 event on 1 November. The performance, which will be covered from multiple camera angles and synced with VJ visuals, will be […]
Sony’s new a7R V camera gets deep learning-based autofocus
Sony’s fifth generation Alpha camera, the a7R V, contains a big technological advance – a dedicated deep learning chip that recognises humans and animals in real-time. It achieves pin-sharp autofocus on a subject’s eye by tracking its entire body even when it is in motion. This works when a subject’s eye is only partly visible. […]