LTX Studio from Lightricks, the team behind the Facetune and Photoleap apps, is yet another new video platform that uses generative AI, in this case to create an entire production from a single prompt. During a recent demo, Ryan Morrison of Tom’s Guide writes that he saw a full production appear in seconds with clips, […]
The reviews on the web page for this BBC Maestro course on filmmaking featuring 27 video tutorials and 20 exercises delivered over 4 hours by Edgar Wright suggest it’s worth sharing here. What does the course cover? Write your screenplay Get your film funded and work with low budgets Choose the perfect soundtrack Learn to […]
For its contribution to shaping today’s filmmaking industry, Pixar’s Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) has been honoured by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a prestigious Academy Scientific and Engineering Award. OpenUSD’s developers are F. Sebastian Grassia, Alex Mohr, Sunya Boonyatera, Brett Levin, and Jeremy Cowles. The Academy Awards for Scientific and Technical Achievements […]
OpenAI describes its new tool as “an AI model that can generate realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions” We’re teaching AI to understand and simulate the physical world in motion, with the goal of training models that help people solve problems that require real-world interaction. Introducing Sora, our text-to-video model. Sora can generate videos […]
American Cinematographer’s Noah Kadner looks at some of image capture highlights from this year’s big game CBS deployed 165 Sony broadcast cameras in total, including many capable of 4K zoom and 48 featuring 4K super slo-mo. Smaller FX-series models, like the FX6 and FX9 were used for “more intimate, cinematic shots at field level”. There […]
On the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, there’s only one ball sport to be talking about, and that’s basketball They have had to wait eight years for the technology to catch up, but at the NBA’s 2024 All-Star weekend at the Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, the Celebrity Game (Friday 16 February) and the Saturday […]