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. 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 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. […]
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’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 […]
Cinema projector maker Christie has been granted a patent in the U.S. and Europe for a hardware and software package that allows cinemas to stream films directly into viewers’ homes. The system supports delivery options from compressed H.265 streams at 4Mbps to uncompressed 8K at 120Hz at 100Gbps, all at low latency. “This technology enables […]