Hewlett Packard Enterprise has signed a 10 year lease extension on its Bishopton refurbishment centre in Erskine, Renfrewshire. The company has also fitted out a further 22,443 sq ft office space, taking a total of 170,956 sq ft including 148,513 sq ft of production and storage space. The former Compaq plant, together with HPE’s other […]
The Los Angeles Times reports that California authorities are allowing film and TV production to resume in the state from this Friday, 12 June, but with some big provisos. The location and logistics of any new or restarted shoots will be subject to the approval of county public health officers, the California Department of Public […]
Five university researchers from Hong Kong and China have created an application called DeepFaceDrawing which “allows users with little training in drawing to produce high-quality images from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches”. Abstract of the team’s academic paper Recent deep image-to-image translation techniques allow fast generation of face images from freehand sketches. However, existing solutions tend […]
In this video from the series Hugo’s Desk, London-based director and VFX supervisor Hugo Guerra shows us his home studio set-up and talks about best practices to build a home studio for your own creative work during the current COVID-19 lockdown. He covers pipelines, strategies, suggestions and setups for editors, designers and VFX artists ranging […]
Transforming media asset management and quality control The DPP and Digital Catapult, with the support of Microsoft and Cognizant, have launched an initiative to identify technology startups and scaleups working in artificial intelligence and machine learning who can help them to transform media content creation and distribution, including media asset management and quality control. “Companies […]
Following on from reports on the early roll-out in the Bundesliga, SVG Europe Editor Will Strauss’s new focus is how the English Premier League is going to look, and sound, when it returns to our screens on 17 June. You may already know that Will appeared on the first new Informed Sauce podcast (15 May) […]