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 ...
Despite the controversy surrounding the seven dwarfs, the recently shuttered MPC aimed to find the difficult sweet spot between painterly and photoreal in “Snow White,” translating them in a way that ...
Every last detail can help make a computer-generated character seem more realistic. So a team of researchers at Cornell University have developed a simulator that can accurately recreate the sound of ...
The new pieces of FFXIV Dawntrail CG character artwork seem to show individuals who belong to the Disciples of the Hand and Land. This means we can see a vary obvious Botanist, Culinarian, Fisher, and ...
Brett Ineson, President and CTO of Animatrik Film Design, on how the evolution of motion and performance capture affects storytelling from Hollywood blockbusters, to AAA games, and immersive metaverse ...
An AI startup called Wonder Dynamics just came out with a new AI-powered editing studio called Wonder Studio, which they claim allows users to automatically replace real actors with convincing CG ...
Rogue One made use of computer-generated visuals to bring back certain characters from the original Star Wars, a move some have deemed controversial. Now, filmmakers on the movie have shared more ...
When Rogue One was released late last year, it ignited a new discussion about the digital resurrection of deceased actors, in that case, Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin, and it sparked debate about ...
Jar Jar was a landmark CG character in "Phantom Menace," but was the animation test at ILM rigged in favor of all-CG? The second season of “Light & Magic,” about the history of VFX giant Industrial ...