Ahead of its launch there, HBO and Framestore, who created the VFX for His Dark Materials have got together to build a new augmented reality (AR) iOS and watchOS app for US viewers – His Dark Materials: My Daemon. Custom animal-like manifestation of users’ inner souls, which are created from the results of an in-app […]
London’s Framestore is famous for so convincingly putting Sandra Bullock into space and settling a marmalade-loving bear in London. More recently, for an equestrian action sequences in Season 4 of The Crown, their VFX wizards have now turned their hand to replacing the face of a skilled equestrian with that of Erin Doherty, who plays […]
NVIDIA has announced a doubling of the memory capacity of its Ampere A100 GPU to 80GB and a 25% increase in memory bandwidth, to 2TB/s. This is particularly good news for anybody involved in the world of High Performance Computing. “Achieving state-of-the-results in HPC and AI research requires building the biggest models, but these demand […]
When the pandemic hit and working effectively from home became the new challenge, it fell to CTOs and CIOs to find workable solutions. Now that we have adjusted and acclimatised, what are the areas businesses must focus on as an estimated 48% of us look forward to this being a mid- to long-term thing? People […]
Director Peter Hyoguchi’s new film Gods Of Mars, which is currently in production, is the latest to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of virtual production technology,. Unreal Engine and virtual set technology have enabled the production team to develop what was intended as a small-scale adventure story into something much more ambitious. […]
On 9 November, HPE introduced its most powerful server ever, the Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus, which can accommodate 4, 8, 10, or 16 GPUs and is designed specifically for High Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence workloads. The demand for HPC and AI is increasing exponentially. Companies want to analyse and exploit their data to gain […]