Epic Games has enlisted Brompton Technology, ARRI and creative technical production company 80six to help refurbish its London Innovation Lab with a new curved LED Volume. The set-up includes an ARRI Amira camera, 144 ROE Black Pearl 2 LED panels, 38 CB3 Carbon 3 full-size and eight half-size panels, all of which are driven by […]
8K production The transition from 4K UHD to 8K is well on schedule according to experts at The 8K Association, paralleling the move from HD to 4K. Sharp, Sony, Hitachi, Panasonic and Ikegami already have 8K-capable cameras and Blackmagic is working on one with 12K resolution. Ancillary equipment for both live and pre-recorded production workflows […]
ExCel London in the Royal Docks near City Airport, which was most recently the home of the Nightingale hospital during thee height of the COVID-19 outbreak, is making around 1 million sq ft of space available to film and TV studio production companies until April 2021 ExCel’s halls, which are 33ft in height to their […]
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, […]
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) […]