Director Peter Hyoguchi’s new film Gods Of Mars, which is currently in production, is the latest to take full advantage of the power and flexibility of virtual production technology,. Unreal Engine and virtual set technology have enabled the production team to develop what was intended as a small-scale adventure story into something much more ambitious. […]
Montreal now also has a new real-time virtual production environment, at MELS Studios and Postproduction, which is part of Quebecor Media Group subsidiary TVA Group. The turnkey installation, which uses Epic Games’ Unreal Engine took just six weeks to complete, with the support of Solotech, who supplied the Absen M2.9mm LED screens. ARRI has supplied […]
Pixomondo intends to open its doors by the end of 2020 International VFX company Pixomondo, whose credits include The Mandalorian, Game of Thrones, Perry Mason and Raised By Wolves, is opening a new $7.5 million virtual production studio in Toronto which it hopes to have ready by the end of 2020. The new facility, said to be […]
CAMERA, a new motion capture studio backed by the European Regional Development Fund, the UK Government and The University of Bath, has set up at Bristol’s Bottle Yard Studios to focus on research in visual computing, machine learning and artificial intelligence, sports, rehabilitation, biomechanics, and creative production. The 660 square foot facility is located in […]
The first line of the Wikipedia page for ‘uncanny valley’ describes it as “a hypothesized relationship between the degree of an object’s resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to such an object”. Even when they are painstakingly crafted, animated human characters in movies still don’t pass for human. But why? The uncanny […]
This isn’t new (it dates from 2010) or at all newsworthy, but Models and Skeletons, The Special Effects of Total Recall is a VFX buff’s dream and well worth bringing to some people’s attention for the first time here, especially as the work of many of the people responsible was criminally overlooked in the credits […]