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Industry TrendsIBC2023 Accelerator Project: 5G Mocap for Performance Arts and Live 3D Animation
Two previous Accelerator Award powerhouse winning teams have combined forces to harness the powers of 5G indoors, this time focusing on two unique, creative workstreams that will both power live, cutting-edge motion capture and low-latency connectivity into creative output, focusing on the performing arts, and 3D animation into children’s hospitals.
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IBC2023 Accelerator Project: 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation
The 5G Motion Capture for Performance Art and Animation project is one of the eight Challenges in the cohort for the IBC2023 Accelerator Media Innovation Programme. The project is championed by Vodafone Group, Curing Kids Cancer, Outernet Global, Production Park, University of Strathclyde, Goldsmiths University, and the participants are Singular.live, ...
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Natalya Tatarchuk: Making real-time more accessible
The VP of Unity Wētā Tools gets under the skin of 3D content creation, and emphasises the value of real time in conversation with Michael Burns.
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Pixar’s Elemental Lays Foundation for AI Powered Workflow
New Pixar animation Elemental is the Walt Disney Company’s most technically complex feature film to date and required a new data storage pipe that lays the foundation for use of AI, reports Adrian Pennington.
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Behind the Scenes: Prehistoric Planet II
BBC Studios and MPC worked with biologists and palaeontologists to translate scientific research into photoreal VFX and the visual grammar of a blue-chip wildlife doc, reports Adrian Pennington.
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AI transforming movie production at Disney – with more to come
Artificial intelligence is already transforming the way movies are produced and will do so even more in the future, Markus Gross, Chief Scientist at The Walt Disney Studios, told the IBC Conference yesterday.
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IBC2022 Accelerators: Previous success stories
With the IBC2022 Accelerator Programme underway, we look back at some of the previous projects and how they’ve impacted media workflows.
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DNEG and Sports Ventures call off SPAC deal
Visual effects and animation firm DNEG has called off plans to go public through a merger with special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Sports Ventures Acquisition Corp.
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IBC Digital: IBC Awards 2021
IBC’s glittering awards ceremony went virtual in 2021, yet generated the same excitement in finding out who has won the three prizes for innovative, co-operative developments. Games, remote production, 4k anime, dynamic content management - all and more made the shortlist.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: RT 3D Interactive Content Creation for Multi Platform Distribution
The 2021 IBC Co-Champions from one of the previous year’s most popular IBC Accelerator Projects in Animation Production: New Immersive Real-Time Workflows retained their coalition to create a new, unique and exciting Challenge for 2021.
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Hackman, Square Mile and MBS team for €300 million Irish studio
Hackman Capital Partners and Square Mile Capital, along with The MBS Group, are to develop and operate a new film and television studio in Ireland, Greystones Media Campus.
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IBC Accelerators 2021: Smart Remote Production and Real Time Animation
Accelerating the Animation Pipeline with minimal equipment, this IBC Challenge leverages the latest technological developments of Markerless Motion Capture and Speech-Driven Facial Animation to drive CG Performances in the Unreal real-time render engine.
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Untold Studios launches in the US
Untold Studios has launched its first studio in the United States.
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Netflix, Aardman team for Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run movies
UK animation studio Aardman is to make new Wallace & Gromit and Chicken Run movies for Netflix.
