ExCel London in the Royal Docks near City Airport, which was most recently the home of the Nightingale hospital during thee height of the COVID-19 outbreak, is making around 1 million sq ft of space available to film and TV studio production companies until April 2021 ExCel’s halls, which are 33ft in height to their […]
The first line of the Wikipedia page for ‘uncanny valley’ describes it as “a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object”. Even when they are painstakingly crafted, animated human characters in movies still don’t pass for human. But why? The uncanny […]
Industrial Light & Magic is expanding its virtual production and StageCraft LED volume capabilities and training more people in this new and fast-growing area of creativity. ILM’s Manhattan Beach Studios installation is getting another permanent system, the company’s second. Pinewood will get the third and Fox Studios in Australia the fourth. These will be supplemented […]
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. Life on Mars won’t be how David Bowie pictured it. With the help of artificial intelligence, architects and scientists are painting a picture of what life […]
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 […]
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 […]