American Cinematographer’s Noah Kadner looks at some of image capture highlights from this year’s big game CBS deployed 165 Sony broadcast cameras in total, including many capable of 4K zoom and 48 featuring 4K super slo-mo. Smaller FX-series models, like the FX6 and FX9 were used for “more intimate, cinematic shots at field level”. There […]
On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, there’s only one ball sport to be talking about, and that’s basketball They have had to wait eight years for the technology to catch up, but at the NBA’s 2024 All-Star weekend at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Celebrity Game (Friday 16 February) and the Saturday […]
Disney has announced that it is investing $1.5 billion in Epic Games. The press release, which was accompanied by the teaser video below, says that the “equity stake” creates a financial partnership that will see both companies “collaborate on an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the reach of beloved Disney stories […]
Multi-player gaming platform Roblox has announced a new real-time AI chat translator that will allow its 70 million daily active users to effortlessly communicate in up to 16 different languages. The feature will be available in any Roblox experience.that has enabled the in-experience text chat service. “Thanks to our new real-time AI chat translations, we’ve made possible […]
China’s Tencent, the home of WeChat, has announced a new version of its open source video generation model DynamiCrafter – visit the GitHub page. Like others, it uses the diffusion method to turn captions and still images into seconds-long videos. What is the diffusion method? It turns captions and still images into seconds-long videos. Diffusion models […]
It has been used in hundreds of films since first appearing in Distant Drums in 1951 The BBC’s Inside Cinema on how the cinema industry’s ultimate in-joke, the Wilhelm Scream, came to appear in some of best-known and most-loved films, from the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises to the likes of Toy Story, Reservoir […]