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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Following an extended courtship, NVIDIA and Mellanox finally got hitched in April 2020, involving a $7 Billion dowry, Mellanox has been rebranded as NVIDIA Networking and fully absorbed. The Mellanox website has been updated, with its switches, NICs, and other networking and data centre hardware all now appearing under the NVIDIA banner for the first […]
Google Research advances NeRF (Neural Radiance Fields) technology, crowdsourcing photos taken by tourists to create detailed 3D images Traditional NeRF struggles with the wide luminance range in different images, coping better with static, controlled images. NeRF-in-the-Wild has been developed to handle many more lighting conditions, angles and formats. The Google Brain ANN (Artificial Neural Network) […]