If you have never seen it before, this incredibly detailed, engrossing and seductive award-winning 16-minute animated film is based on scientific observation data from the Japan Meteorological Agency Himawai-8 satellite, which is situated 35786 km above Earth. The film was a winner of the Vimeo Staff Pick Award at the 2019 Annecy International Animation Film Festival, […]
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How Jon Favreau and ILM riffed on Unreal Engine to make ‘The Mandalorian’
A behind-the-scenes look at how the Director and creative team made the most of what virtual production currently offers, and then began to think of new ways of working. Over 50 percent of The Mandalorian Season 1 was filmed using this ground-breaking new methodology, eliminating the need for location shoots entirely. Instead, actors in The […]
The Age Of A.I. Ep. 8 – How A.I. Is Searching For Aliens
The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. We have always wondered whether other intelligent life exists in this galaxy, but for the first time we have the technology to help answer that question. […]
Epic Games publishes Unreal Virtual Production Primer
Epic Games has published a new Virtual Production Primer containing more than 15 hours of curated content in a self-paced learning path, comprising eight courses and 10 videos. The primer teaches the fundamentals of Unreal Engine and real-time production, and how these skills and techniques may be applied to the emerging area of virtual production. […]
NeRF-in-the-Wild recreates complex outdoor scenes from stills
A group of researchers from Google Research and Google Brain are developing deep learning models that can synthesise complex outdoor scenes using only unstructured collections of photos captured in-the-wild and regardless of camera angles, camera or lighting conditions The new models can capture lighting and photometric post-processing data of outdoor scenes, with variation in appearance, […]
NVIDIA DGX SuperPODs reduce AI supercomputer deployments to weeks
NVIDIA’s latest supercomputer announcement is aimed at reducing the time it takes to deploy huge AI number crunching systems to a matter of weeks. The NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD™ Solution for Enterprise is sold as up to seven individual 20-unit clusters of NVIDIA DGX A100™ systems interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox® HDR InfiniBand networking and using all-flash storage. Performance […]