In the video below, OPenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati discusses with WSJ’s Joanna Stern how their new text-to-video AI model Sora works. How long does it take to produce a result? As it’s a technology, that is still in its infancy, what about accuracy and consistency and managing the inevitable glitches and imperfections? When are we […]
Recording super slow motion video at high resolution has always been expensive, requiring specialist equipment and the results can be of low, jittery quality at more than 240fps. Using machine learning models like Google Research’s Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM and the Amazon SageMaker cloud service, a new system from AWS “analyses motions between input […]
Streaming, the pandemic and inflation have shrunk cinema audiences and holed the traditional business model below the waterline. How can operators prevent the industry from sinking? In 2023, apart from Barbie, and Oppenheimer, nothing much got us off our sofas in sufficient numbers. Maybe it’s not the films themselves we should be focusing on? From executive […]
The winners of yesterday evening’s British Animation Awards at London’s BFI Southbank have been announced. The big winner was Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom adapted from the classic adventure story by Michael Morpurgo about a boy shipwrecked on a seemingly-deserted island, won Best Feature, the Writers Award for Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Best Original Music for composer Stuart […]
The Pixotope Pocket iOS app has landed. Originally launched as an educational tool, it tracks objects by combining device motion tracking, camera scene capture and advanced scene processing. Video and tracking data are sent to a local Windows-based Pixotope Graphics machine using an SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) stream. “Pixotope Pocket is maturing beyond its initial […]
To become more roundly understood, accepted and, above all, trusted, generative video will need to scale models and the data behind them to better understand the physics of the world. Some might find the prospect scary, but what we’re talking about is “a form of artificial general intelligence (AGI); AI capable of internalising and reflecting […]