The 11 Scientific and Technical Areas for 2024 Sci-Tech Consideration

August 21, 2024

Each year the Sci-Tech Committee signals what they are investigating for the next year’s Awards. Here are this year’s 11 areas.

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DigiPro 2024: conference recap

August 19, 2024

A look back at DigiPro 2024, an outstanding conference held the Saturday before the SIGGRAPH conference begins.

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Shutterstock generative AI 3D models

July 29, 2024

We talk to Dade Orgeron, about Shutterstock’s new 3D generative AI that they have been working on for 16 months.

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What does spatial computing mean exactly?

July 22, 2024

DOP Ben Allan discusses shooting and viewing immersive video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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D-ID agents informed by ChatGPT

June 26, 2024

Putting a face on a ChatGPT

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Machine learning at the node: iPad Pro + ML

June 25, 2024

Machine Learning and the outcome of WWDC 24 and the IPad Pro update

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Inside Out 2: redefining the magic with new technology

June 21, 2024

The first Inside Out film was rendered with RenderMan REYES, but for Inside Out 2 Pixar had to replicate all all the magic with the new RenderMan RIS.

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CGI digital double acting at DI4D

June 20, 2024

DI4D extends the art of CGI digital humans.

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Best papers at CVPR: they are kind of fun!

June 19, 2024

Want to see what will be in AI aps in the future? We have a look at the best research papers released today at the CVPR conference.

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NVIDIA’s JeDi: Joint-Image Diffusion models for fine-tuning generative AI

June 19, 2024

More control of text-to-image generative AI with consistency and around real-world objects from the CVPR conference.

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Jason Zimmerman on the VFX of Star Trek Discovery & Strange New Worlds

June 4, 2024

We speak to the remarkable Jason Zimmerman about the remarkable VFX of Discovery and Strange New Worlds.

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Shooting for the Apple Vision Pro: post-production part two

May 31, 2024

Part two of our look at filming and editing spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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VFX Supervisor Chad Wanstreet: four Robert Downey Jr.s and fleeing Vietnam in The Sympathizer

May 31, 2024

HBO’s The Sympathizer: 70’s drama comedy with not one but four Robert Downey Jr.s! We look at the visual effects it took to bring the four to the screen and more.

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Autodesk buys Wonder Dynamics

May 21, 2024

We talk exclusively to the founders of Wonder Dynamics about their sale to Autodesk, and what it means for users.

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Digital Domain unveils Masquerade3

May 18, 2024

Hanno Basse explains the new Digital Domain markerless Masquerade3 facial animation pipeline.

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Proof share their postvis work on The Creator

May 18, 2024

The Creator was one of the most impressive VFX film of the last year, Proof have released with PreVis reel.

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AI: the battleground for Final Cut Pro vs. Premiere Pro vs. Resolve

May 10, 2024

Generative AI and machine learning are changing the editing landscape with all three major editing packages fighting it out with amazing new AI tools.

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1st SORA music video, How SORA is evolving & guessing possible pricing

May 8, 2024

We continue our coverage of talking to early SORA users, exploring SORA’s newest features, and hypotheses about its possible pricing.

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Shooting spatial video – why all the negativity? It’s great!

April 27, 2024

We test drive a massively wide range of options for filming spatial video for the Apple Vision Pro.

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UE 5.4 released with improved ICVFX and Android VCam

April 23, 2024

UE 5.4 released with some great improvements for ICVFX, rendering and Android VCam

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Project Arena: Chaos LED volumes

April 21, 2024

Project Arena is a real-time ray tracing solution for virtual production from Chaos.

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Inside the (LED) bunker of Fallout

April 17, 2024

A deep dive inside the Fallout series virtual production work with Magnopus’ Ben Grossmann

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Actually using SORA

April 14, 2024

The exact current state of SORA with the team from Air Head or ‘How to tell a consistent story despite the slot machine nature of genAI.’

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Frame.io releases version 4

April 9, 2024

Frame.io delivers a powerful major upgrade.

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Gucci on the Apple Vision Pro and why it matters

April 5, 2024

Finally cool innovative film makers make engaging films taking advantage of the Apple Vision Pro.

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Epic MetaHuman comes to UEFN

March 20, 2024

Epic launch a host of new tools and advances to Metahuman’s at GDC 2024

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Omniverse streaming into the Apple Vision Pro with new NVIDIA AR XR

March 18, 2024

We spoke to Damian Fulmer at Katana about how the developed the car app that even fooled NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang

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NVIDIA unlocks even more 3D Generative AI at GTC

March 18, 2024

A lot of new Generative AI tool were announced today as part of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang’s extensive 2-hour keynote.

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Congrats to Godzilla Minus One and all the nominated Teams

March 10, 2024

Congats to Godzilla Minus One on winning the 2024 Oscar

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Nikon to acquire RED.com

March 7, 2024

Nikon buys RED – and what it might mean.

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