Epic Games have been working with a number of high profile fashion names including Moncler, Balenciaga, Jordan Brand and KAWS to dress characters in games such as Fornite, create branded virtual worlds for the likes of Timberland and drive NFTs. PUMA, Balenciaga and Gary McQueen have also used Unreal Engine to create CGI fashion films. For a glimpse into […]
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 […]
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 (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 […]
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 […]
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