Unity just bought Weta Digital - yeah, the Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson one - CDM Create Digital Music. The democratization of visual effects continues at a stunning pace, with or without acquisitions.
But it’s hard to beat this example – an Academy Award-winning visual effects studio is now in the hands of a game engine. So the Unreal versus Unity rivalry is definitely real. Unreal continues apace, and in particular, can appeal to musicians thanks to its unprecedented modular sound engine. But Unity has been no slouch, either. (Major disclaimer: you would not want to make a choice based on these generalizations, as these tools feature really different workflows and development styles.
I covered some of those visual developments quickly a few days ago – the image is either a demonstration of some new sky rendering features, or God speaking to Moses on the mountaintop about what He felt about C# as a code language: And here’s the “look what we just bought” brag video from the folks at Unity, featuring, yes, Peter Jackson.
The Modern Dance. Björk holds weirdly magical live motion capture press conference to tease new virtual reality album. When it comes to the fantastical and strange, everyone is always going to have a hard time topping Icelandic singer Björk.
But today Björk took another step into the realm beyond where the rest of us live by conducting a press conference in which she appeared as a live motion capture avatar. While Björk was 1,200 miles away wearing a “mocap” (motion capture) suit in a studio at the Icelandic Media College in Reykjavik, her image was appearing in a London gallery rendered in a swirling rainbow of colors and objects. On her Facebook page, Björk said the motion capture stream was intended to emphasize her embrace of new technology and the role virtual reality played in the creative process that led to her new album, Vulnicura.
“Technology is enabling women to work outside the already formed hierarchical systems,” she wrote. The rendering of her motion capture badself today was aided by #D technology from Autodesk and Unity. Here’s a bit more detail on the album from a press release: Animation.
Film & Video. Motion Graphics. Research. Stripes. Spectacle, Speculation, Spam. 2017 Motion Design Industry Survey. Media Pioneer – Dioniso Punk. Like a Georges Méliès of the information age, Zbigniew Rybczyński employed specially constructed rigs and cutting-edge — for its time — technology to create a kind of visual sorcery leaving you asking “how on earth did he do that?”.
The film he’s most noted for, Tango, was the first ever Oscar awarded to a Polish artist — 1983. Thirty-six characters from different stages of life — representations of different times — interact in one room, moving in loops, observed by a static camera. In Tango, Zbigniew exploits this concept of the single offscreen space by filling it with a plethora of actions. It soon becomes obvious that such a small space, that of a small room, could not possibly contain all the actions taking place.
Zbigniew also makes critical use of off-screen space, exposing it for the artifice it is. “I had to draw and paint about 16.000 cell-mattes, and make several hundred thousand exposures on an optical printer. Mi piace: Mi piace Caricamento... Moving Image. Best Tutorials For Cinematic Visual Effects. Advertisement Today, too many websites are still inaccessible.
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