An article from earlier this year by Noah Kadner on the frame.io blog highlights the range of additional skills required to make movies using virtual production techniques and technologies, including games development, visual effects, video I/O, real-time animation, tech support and theatrical stage experience. With virtual production, the only people who actually need to be […]
The makers of new film Comandante, which follows the real-life exploits of an Italian World War 2 submarine commander, are employing a new near real-time (NRT) workflow that uses lens calibration, vast amounts of metadata and a game engine to allow post production to begin while they are shooting. Principal photography begins in November. The […]
Writing on Linkedin, offbeat.xyz co-founder Christopher Travers draws our attention to the facial capture work being done by VFX company Digital Domain in 2022. DD’s new demo video on YouTube below shows how a real-time facial capture using a webcam can be mapped onto an avatar to personalise the UX of the game you are playing, and […]
Machine learning is being used to drive wider adoption and professional development Vid2Vid Cameo – which is available through a demo on the NVIDIA AI Playground – can be used to capture facial movements and expressions from video shot on any type of camera, including smartphones, and applied in real time to animate an avatar, character […]
In ‘Bullet Train’, Brad Pitt’s new screen hero Ladybug is a hired assassin with a reverse midas touch. Seemingly straightforward contracts have a tendency to, ahem, hit the buffers and you don’t have to be one of his targets to get hurt during an operation. It’s a quirky concept, and ‘Bullet Train’ makes the most […]
This Unilad video on Facebook by a young Canadian VFX artist gives us a great behind-the-scenes look at how he created four simple but effective illusions using compositing software, some of it free and open source.