Study concludes that human body data used by modern performance capture systems is “flawed”

A research team at the University of Michigan School of Information and Center for the Study of Complex Systems led by assistant professor Abigail Z. Jacobs has conducted an academic study into how motion capture systems work. They conclude that the assumptions these systems make about whose human bodies are ‘standard’ or ‘representative’ are “stylised […]

Using generative AI to compare the carbon impacts of location shooting and on-set virtual production For those of you who are interested in how shooting on an LED stage saves the planet compared to going out on location, Morden Wolf’s Rob Chandler, pictured below, was a panelist at an event in Lille last week called […]

In the video below, OPenAI’s CTO, Mira Murati discusses with WSJ’s Joanna Stern how their new text-to-video AI model Sora works. How long does it take to produce a result? As it’s a technology, that is still in its infancy, what about accuracy and consistency and managing the inevitable glitches and imperfections? When are we […]

Recording super slow motion video at high resolution has always been expensive, requiring specialist equipment and the results can be of low, jittery quality at more than 240fps. Using machine learning models like Google Research’s Frame Interpolation for Large Motion (FILM and the Amazon SageMaker cloud service, a new system from AWS “analyses motions between input […]

The winners of yesterday evening’s British Animation Awards at London’s BFI Southbank have been announced. The big winner was Lupus Films’ hand-drawn animated feature film Kensuke’s Kingdom adapted from the classic adventure story by Michael Morpurgo about a boy shipwrecked on a seemingly-deserted island, won Best Feature, the Writers Award for Frank Cottrell-Boyce and Best Original Music for composer Stuart […]

The Pixotope Pocket iOS app has landed. Originally launched as an educational tool, it tracks objects by combining device motion tracking, camera scene capture and advanced scene processing. Video and tracking data are sent to a local Windows-based Pixotope Graphics machine using an SRT (Secure Reliable Transport) stream. “Pixotope Pocket is maturing beyond its initial […]