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 […]
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 […]