Seth MacFarlane‘s production company Fuzzy Door has deployed its tech division’s ViewScreen Studio real-time performance capture system on the production of the new Ted television series. While he directed and performed simultaneously – how does he do that? – the crew were able to insert his loveable but dysfunctional animated bear character into scenes involving […]
Too good not to share here, and reproduced in full from his original Linkedin post, Rob Chandler of Morden Wolf and the Starting Pixel WhatsApp group fame offers newbies to virtual production and in-camera visual effects (ICVFX) some valuable advice on what to do before you get underway. 1 – Grasp The Basics You may […]
10 films will advance in the Special Visual Effect category. Members of the SVFX chapter vote to determine the longlist and the nominations. In the final round of voting, all film voting members will vote for the overall winning film. 73 films were submitted for consideration. A supporting Statement and a show-reel of the SVFX work (up […]
The predictions are that, through tools like Stable Video Diffusion, Pika, Runway, Meta’s Emu Video and, soon-ish, Midjourney, generative video is going to be one of the big talking points and disruptors in 2024 And if the predictions are correct, more video content creators will start to learn how to automatically edit footage, synthesise voiceovers, […]
For those of you who are less familiar with this aspect of content origination, motion or performance capture is the term most commonly used to describe the digital capture of movement of an object or person. The most common forms of modern motion capture systems Magnetic – The performer wears sensors at key points of the […]
disguise is taking steps to promote the use of 2.5D workflows in virtual production, but what does that actually mean? Unlike 2D plates, 2.5D offers a hint of dimensionality without the full complexity of real-time 3D environments. A 2.5D workflow, often regarded as the bridge between 2D and 3D, involves layering multiple 2D images with […]