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VFX artists show that Hollywood can use AI to create, not exploit
Hollywood may be embroiled in ongoing labor disputes that involve AI, but the technology infiltrated film and TV long, long ago. At SIGGRAPH in LA, algorithmic and generative tools were on display in countless talks and announcements. We may not know where the likes of GPT-4 and Stable Diffusion fit in yet, but the creative…
Wētā FX talks all things ‘The Last of Us,’ including the iconic bloater and giraffe scenes
“Nobody does creature work the way Wētā does,” Craig Mazin, co-creator of HBO’s “The Last of Us,” said in the official podcast for the video game adaptation series. If you’d…
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Wonder Dynamics puts a full-service CG character studio in a web platform
The tools of modern cinema have become increasingly accessible to independent and even amateur filmmakers, but realistic CG characters (like them or not) have remained the province of big-budget projects. Wonder Dynamics aims to change that with a platform that lets creators literally drag and drop a CG character into any scene as if it…
VFX studio Perception takes us inside the tech of ‘Black Panther: Wakanda Forever’
Visual effects artists, especially the ones that work on Marvel films, are in more demand than ever — and rarely get enough credit. Nearly a dozen VFX houses contribute to…
South Park creators’ deepfake video startup Deep Voodoo conjures $20M in new funding
Trey Parker and Matt Stone, creators of South Park and various other media over the years, have raised $20 million to continue work on their professional deepfake studio for creators,…
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Inside Dark Bay, the spinning LED volume at the heart of Netflix’s upcoming ‘1899’
Virtual production has rapidly become one of the most promising techniques in media. But while a huge and sophisticated real-time display instead of a green screen solves many problems, it also creates new ones. The creators of Netflix’s mind-bending Dark took on this challenge for the production of their new show, 1899 — and combined…
AI-powered VFX startup Wonder Dynamics raises $10M A round
Wonder Dynamics aims to make “blockbuster-level” visual effects achievable by living-room-level creators using AI and cloud services, though it has kept its product closely under wraps. The secretive company, which…
Wonder Dynamics raises $2.5M seed to equip indie filmmakers with AI-powered VFX
Practically every film production these days needs some kind of visual effects work, but independent creators often lack the cash or expertise to get that top-shelf CG. Wonder Dynamics, founded…
Being a freelance animator is a pretty crappy existence, living out of a suitcase, jetting from country to country as the major studios are chasing tax incentives around the world.…
