The Midnight Sky (in UK cinemas now and from 23 December on UK Netflix), which the film’s director and star pitched to DoP Martin Ruhe as “The Revenant meets Gravity”, is a post-apocalyptic tale of isolation and survival. For interior and extravehicular scenes, the production made extensive use of the latest in virtual set technology. […]
Satore Studio and MBS Equipment have got together to show how virtual production can be made to look so real that “even a trained professional wouldn’t know it was fake until the very end”. In the 90-second film for agency Quite Brilliant, we see an actor in a wide range of settings, from a living […]
How OpenAI’s Jukebox project is deepfaking Sinatra, Elvis, 2Pac and more OpenAI, which describes itself as a “research and deployment company” and which is the home of, amongst other things, GPT-3, is running a project that uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with lyrics, in a variety of genres and artist styles. Jukebox as […]
Pinewood Studios Group has announced the launch of Screen Hub UK, a £450 million expansion of the Iver Heath site. Highlights include: 350,000 square feet of new film production facilitiesa a green campus an area dedicated to nurturing and growing new creative businesses related to film production an educational training and skills hub a film […]
US property developer Hackman Capital Partners, which owns The Culver Studios in Los Angeles and Silvercup Studios in New York, has stepped in to build Dagenham Studios in East London after the original backers pulled out citing concerns over Brexit. £300m will be spent on developing the site over the next three years. Filming at […]
SAUCE (Smart-Asset ReUse in Creative Environments) is a three-year multi-company EU Research and Innovation project focused on the re-use of existing digital assets for future productions. Content creators regularly overlook opportunities to reuse existing media assets on new productions, particularly virtual productions, to reduce costs, speed up production and, into the bargain, earn some residual revenue for the asset […]