As performance capture grows to become one of the most powerful tools at a filmmaker’s fingertips, specialists Animatrik and creative agency Territory have produced this useful infographic focusing on its history, mechanics and uses. Source: MovieMaker
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.
NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face simplifies animation of a 3D character to match any voice-over track, and can be used in real time or within traditional character creation workflows. The Open Beta version will be available soon.