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 […]
In this, the second episode of The Pulse, host Mike Seymour, Co-Founder of fxguide is joined by Sam Nicholson, ASC, CEO and Founder of Stargate Studios; Felix Jorge, CEO and Creative Director at Happy Mushroom; and Matt Madden, currently Director of Virtual Production at Epic Games. Together, they look at how real-time filmmaking and virtual […]
If you are new to A.I., exploring what’s what, and thinking of investing in an NVIDIA Jetson Nano single board computer, you might want to take a look at the open source Jetson AI-Computer Emulator first. It’s an application-level emulator of the Jetson hardware that has been created by machine-learning software engineer Tea Vui Huang. […]
During his 4K restoration of classic Silly Symphony Disney animation The Skeleton Dance from 1929, editor Adam Maciaszek used an artificial neural network to stabilise the intense flicker in the original, clean up detail and improve the resolution. For comparison, here is the 1929 original. To optimise the viewing experience, Adam recommends watching the restored […]
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, […]