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 […]
The designers and engineers behind the Universal Scene Description (USD) framework, F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles, have together won one of 2024’s Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. Some of 2024’s other Scientific and Technical Academy Award winners James Eggleton and Delwyn Holroyd “for the design, implementation and integration of the High-Density […]
Tripod X is a new motorised, auto self-levelling tripod from Edelkrone that offers “a level of comfort and speed that you have never experienced with any other tripod. It can effortlessly raise and lower even the heaviest setup loads including all of edelkrone motion control systems”. Its promo video makes it look very cool, so we […]
We live in an era of declining traditional linear TV consumption. Millennials and Gen Z-ers rely on mobile devices, YouTube and TikTok for their entertainment and information. How do broadcasters and other news outlets go about engaging with them in a meaningful way without undermining or trivialising the medium, asks Kevin Hilton, writing in TVB […]
With thanks to Jodi Nelson-Tabor for bringing our attention to the Time Out story on Linkedin This Autumn, New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will open the doors of its 45,000 square foot Martin Scorsese Virtual Production Center on the new 35-acre Industry City site on the Brooklyn waterfront. The facility occupies an […]