The Ōma cinema in Paris is the first in the world with seats arranged vertically in front of a huge screen In an earlier post here, we covered the design of the Oma cinema complex that is due to open in Paris in 2021, which features a stack of pods with a variety of seating […]
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Wav2Lip automates lipsync on talking face videos
A group of academics at CVIT (Center for Visual Information Technology) in Hyderabad, India has successfully mastered the process of accurately lip-sync’ing dynamic, unconstrained talking face videos, using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). As you will see in the demo video, this includes matching a live language translation to an original video spoken in a native […]
Pinewood Atlanta Studios gets virtual set tech
Pinewood Atlanta Studios is one of the companies showing the way forward in virtual production with the launch of a new LED-equipped virtual set. The initiative is a partnership involving MBSi, Fuse Technical Group and SGPS/ShowRig. They’re using similar LED wall technology to that used on The Mandalorian. At the moment, the set-up can be […]
NVIDIA, Teradici partner for virtual workstation webinar
As businesses and employees, as well as the freelancers they work with, adjust to the so-called ‘new normal’, and remote working becomes more-or-less standard, spare a thought for those who need to wield some pretty meaty hardware in their spare bedrooms or garden offices. Operating powerful workstations with top-end GPUs comes with a maintenance overhead, […]
pwc: M&E industry takes $120 Billion hit in 2020
In its Global Entertainment & Media Outlook 2020–2024 report, PwC predicts that the global M&E industry will contract by 5.6% in 2020. It’s the sharpest fall in global M&E revenue in the 21-years PwC has been conducting this research and represents a $120 Billion hole in the industry’s finances, For context, in 2009, the last year […]
Total Recall’s models and VFX remembered
This isn’t new (it dates from 2010) or at all newsworthy, but Models and Skeletons, The Special Effects of Total Recall is a VFX buff’s dream and well worth bringing to some people’s attention for the first time here, especially as the work of many of the people responsible was criminally overlooked in the credits […]