SAUCE (Smart-Asset ReUse in Creative Environments) is a three-year multi-company EU Research and Innovation project focused on the re-use of existing digital assets for future productions. Content creators regularly overlook opportunities to reuse existing media assets on new productions, particularly virtual productions, to reduce costs, speed up production and, into the bargain, earn some residual revenue for the asset […]
With the support of $160m in funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), HPE is building supercomputer LUMI in Kajaani, Finland with a theoretical performance capability of over 550 petaflops, which will make it the fastest in the world. LUMI, which is due to be available for use from the middle of […]
When Pinewood Studios opened its production facility just outside Atlanta in 2014 it wasn’t originally envisaged as a fully integrated community where film industry people could work, live and socialise. Pinewood’s partners did see the opportunity to build a town whose residents would collaborate on film projects from start to finish, and that’s how we got […]
Cinema projector maker has announced another innovation to help theatre owners get their businesses back on track while ensuring audiences remain safe; a line of commercial UV disinfection products with patented far-UVC light technology. CounterAct, which is due to go into production in January 2021, uses Care222 excimer lamps from Christie’s parent company Ushio that […]
Epic Games has enlisted Brompton Technology, ARRI and creative technical production company 80six to help refurbish its London Innovation Lab with a new curved LED Volume. The set-up includes an ARRI Amira camera, 144 ROE Black Pearl 2 LED panels, 38 CB3 Carbon 3 full-size and eight half-size panels, all of which are driven by […]
Denis Shiryaev is a Gdansk-based Russian entrepreneur who founded neural.love to clean up vintage film footage using open source software and AI models, including the splendidly-named DeOldify. Since their work started to become recognised, neural.love has restored old footage of Amsterdam and Moscow and more recently they helped PBS in the U.S. with a documentary […]