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 […]
LTX Studio from Lightricks, the team behind the Facetune and Photoleap apps, is yet another new video platform that uses generative AI, in this case to create an entire production from a single prompt. During a recent demo, Ryan Morrison of Tom’s Guide writes that he saw a full production appear in seconds with clips, […]
The reviews on the web page for this BBC Maestro course on filmmaking featuring 27 video tutorials and 20 exercises delivered over 4 hours by Edgar Wright suggest it’s worth sharing here. What does the course cover? Write your screenplay Get your film funded and work with low budgets Choose the perfect soundtrack Learn to […]
For its contribution to shaping today’s filmmaking industry, Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) has been honoured by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. OpenUSD’s developers are F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles. The Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievements […]