Nordisk Film in Copenhagen has launched a new virtual production facility to service both in-house productions and third party clients. The Shortcut LED Stage is operated by Nordisk Film Shortcut, the company’s in-house VFX and post-production division. 16m in diameter, it is being marketed as the world’s first 360° stage and includes a ceiling covered […]
An article from earlier this year by Noah Kadner on the frame.io blog highlights the range of additional skills required to make movies using virtual production techniques and technologies, including games development, visual effects, video I/O, real-time animation, tech support and theatrical stage experience. With virtual production, the only people who actually need to be […]
The makers of new film Comandante, which follows the real-life exploits of an Italian World War 2 submarine commander, are employing a new near real-time (NRT) workflow that uses lens calibration, vast amounts of metadata and a game engine to allow post production to begin while they are shooting. Principal photography begins in November. The […]
At the ripe old age of 91, James Earl Jones has decided it’s time to retire and hand the job of voicing Darth Vader to AI technology to head off the possibility that Disney may replace him, as if that were possible. Ukrainian speech synthesis start-up Respeecher has already worked for Disney on the Star […]
Disney+ subscribers are enjoying a new eight-minute short film with a difference. While watching Remembering, viewers can use an iOS devices to scan a QR code on their TVs and watch additional content on the small screen. It’s a first for the home of the mouse. The film’s star Brie Larson, who is also the […]
Text-to-speech has been around for years, but quality limitations meant they were used primarily by voice assistants and chat bots. Developments in AI and deep learning now make it possible to create synthetic voices that have the prosody and pronunciation of human speech. Traditional voiceover and dubbing markets are predicated to generate a total of […]