Researchers at the University of Trento, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Snap, Inc. have devised an AI system that uses a framework they call Clustering for Action Decomposition and DiscoverY (CADDY) to learn a set of discrete actions from a large library of video clips that can be used to create new “playable” videos […]
Gartner estimates that 37% of all organisations are using AI in anger today and predicts that that number will double to 75% by 2024. To maintain its competitive edge using detailed analysis of every aspect of its operations, one large US supermarket chain alone currently generates 2.5 petabytes of data A DAY! AI processes require […]
Framestore’s Chief Creative Officer and Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Tim Webber is making his directorial debut with a short to test the company’s new FUSE (Framestore Unreal Shot engine) VFX pipeline. The project is sci-fi-based and uses existing Framestore IP, but doesn’t appear to represent a shift into full-time filmmaking for either him or the company. […]
The Times has recently reported that, hot on the heels of the announcement of a new Centre of Excellence in Cambridge, NVIDIA has revealed that it is to site its powerful new AI-focused supercomputer at the KAO Data Centre in Harlow, Essex. Cambridge-1, as it is known, which will spend a lot of its time […]
Out of adversity and to nobody’s surprise, two of the areas of content creation that have come on in leaps and bounds during the last twelve months are real-time 3D animation and virtual production. These developments have had a big impact on the way VFX artists, animators, graphic artists, film directors and producers work and […]
OpenAI’s latest piece of mind-boggling deep learning wizardry, DALL-E (Dali meets WALL-E, geddit?), is able to create illustrations, photos, renders or any other visual you care to mention just from a description that you provide. For more detail about DALL-E, try this very readable description from Dale Markowitz on The Next Web. GPT-3, for those […]