This 36-second ICVFX virtual production test conducted at Drexel University and led by Catalyst’s Ian Fursa and Steve Chandler and Drexel’s own Nick Jushchyshyn with the support of Colorspace Labs and Lightbulb Rentals and using VP Toolkit shows how rear-projection can replace an expensive LED stage and still produce industry-standard level results for those shooting […]
Netflix has emerged as the leading bidder to redevelop the 293 acre former US Army base at Fort Monmouth on the Jersey Shore about fifty mile from Manhattan, into an enormous film production facility. If all goes to plan, they will break ground on the site in Q1 2023 and the complex is expected to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]