Unlike many industry sub-sectors , VFX has been able to adjust to remote working relatively quickly and easily, writes Barclay’s Head of Media Lorraine Ruckstuhl in Broadcast. Content security, adapting workflows, structuring teams correctly and kitting them out have occupied tech departments full-time and bandwidth“has become the new obsession”. A lot of effort has been […]
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University student’s TikTok VFX showcase does its job
Julian Bass, a 20 year-old Georgia State university student, has won over an array of Hollywood names with this TikTok video showing off his impressive visual effects skills. When Julian posted the video on Twitter, he added the note, “If y’all can tweet this enough times that Disney calls that’d be greatly appreciated”. The video […]
Enjoy Summer Safely ad campaign launched
A new campaign for the UK government has been launched to promote the safe reopening of the UK for business after lockdown restrictions have been lifted. The ‘Enjoy Summer Safely’ TV ad shows people returning to places they missed during lockdown and some of the new safety measures in place. Brands involved in the campaign […]
NVIDIA to leapfrog Intel in the semiconductor market
As its current generation of Xeon CPUs appear to hit a performance plateau, analysts are predicting that, for the first time, NVIDIA is about to overtake Intel in the semiconductor stakes and become the US’s largest processor supplier by market capitalisation, according to this article in Barron’s. NVIDIA GPUs are getting more powerful and the […]
England C-19 quarantine exemption for A-listers
Following what’s been described as “a conversation” between the UK Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Tom Cruise, leading Hollywood actors and crew arriving in England to resume work on British productions are being offered a 14 day Covid-19 travel quarantine exemption to allow a number of major productions to get back underway. The actor’s two […]
NVIDIA’s Selene supercomputer takes a bow
When the 55th. Top500 supercomputer rankings were published, in at number 7 with a bullet was newcomer Selene, which is owned by NVIIDIA and uses AMD’s Rome EPYC 7742 processors (64 cores, clocked at 2.25GHz) and NVIDIA’s own latest A100 accelerators. Selene is now a part of the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, Saturn V, clocking […]