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 […]
Building work has begun on a new £70m+ studio complex in North Belfast. Studio Ulster, a partnership involving Belfast Harbour, Ulster University and NI Screen, with funding from the Belfast Region City Deal, is due to open on a site in the city’s Grant’s Park by 2024, The studios will offer facilities for the creation of film, […]
A piece of art created by Midjourney has won first prize in the Colorado State Fair’s fine art competition. Théâtre D’opéra Spatial (Space Opera Theatre), in which three women in flowing red and white robes are seen in a large baroque hall, won in the digitally manipulated photography category. Edmond de Belamy, a blurry portrait […]
The TikTok account darkside.ai, run by Milan Jaram Creations, has posted a set of rather unnerving images of characters from The Simpsons as real people created using Midjourney. Elsewhere, dark side.ai has asked the generative AI art tool to produce what it thinks SpongeBob SquarePants and South Park characters would look like in real life […]
Just over a year ago, American Cinematographer’s virtual production editor Noah Kadner offered relative newcomers to the field some words of advice, reproduced here in an edited form 1 – fix it in pre-production, not in post However unfamiliar and unappealing this inversion of workflows might at first seem, make as many of your creative […]
New-York-based creative production agency Taylor James is another that has been pushing on-set virtual production technology and in-camera VFX to see how far they can practically take it in pursuit of high-end goals. For the Rain-X automotive brand, they recently made a single commercial in which a vehicle was driven through every type of weather […]