It was particularly difficult 2023 for everybody working in and around the film industry. Thankfully, the worst appears to be behind us and many projects are being hurriedly finished ready for screening next year.. Amongst other things, the ending of the actors’ strike saved awards season at the eleventh hour. Ten Academy Awards shortlists have […]
It’s been a week and a bit of speaking and hosting engagements for Mondatum, racking up the miles as we went. Z by HP UK Channel Conference – Mercedes-Benz World, Weybridge Wacom North with Scan Computers – Impossible Theatre, Manchester UK Screen Alliance session on AI in VFX in animation – FOCUS 2023, London Sandwiched […]
“Step into a world of creative filmmaking, driven by human talent, and enhanced by AI technologies“ The AI Film Festival (AIFFF) takes place at Expo City Dubai next February. The competition to submit films for consideration is now closed and the judges have begun deliberating. The finalists will be announced in late January, giving us the chance to vote for our Audience Choice award favourite. The awards ceremony itself […]
What the surviving members of The Beatles’ are considering to be their final song together, ‘Now And Then’, has been released to much acclaim. The song’s release owes much to film director Peter Jackson, whose machine learning-powered ‘MAL Machine’ was used to recover John Lennon’s voice from a demo he recorded onto cassette tape while […]
This video from day 3 of SIGGRAPH 2023 by the team at the ETC (Entertainment Technology Centre) at the University of Southern California, AKA ETC@USC, shows a demo by Fernando Rivas-Manzaneque and Orlando Avila-Garcia, co-founders of Volinga of real-time rendering of a NeRF in a real virtual production environment, which they claim was a world’s […]
For those not familiar with Universal Scene Description (USD), it’s “a framework for interchange of 3D computer graphics data. The framework focuses on collaboration, non-destructive editing, and enabling multiple views and opinions about graphics data. USD is used in many industries including visual effects, architecture, design, robotics and CAD” (Wikipedia). USD is a high-performance extensible […]