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The article presents the discussion on increasing use of AI in Indian cinema's VFX and animation sectors, noting its impact on tasks like concept design and background plate recreation. Topics include underscores ongoing debates and preparations within the industry for integrating AI, emphasizing its potential benefits in efficiency and creative enhancement alongside the need for human-centric artistic contributions and collaborative teamwork.

The article describes the crafting of visual effects of the animated adventure film "Puss in Boots: The Last Wish" from DreamWorks Animation. It presents details of the redesign of the feline protagonist, three-dimensional (3D) art model of the character Puss, a doctor's office scene painting that served as benchmark for environmental detail, redesign of animation workflow using tools for stylized visuals, and anime-style movement techniques employed to enhance action sequences.

The article presents the discussion on Distortion Studios' new Bristol-based facility specializing in virtual production. Topics include equipped with cutting-edge technology and aiming to foster local industry talent through training initiatives; and focus on training and community engagement, and the role of Stage Precision software in facilitating versatile virtual production workflows.

The article discuses about the significance of the metaverse in the live music industry. Topics discussed include embracing social media to self-promote, experimenting with performing online, combining digital elements with their live performances and new metaverse performance category at the 2022 Video Music Awards (VMAs) by MTV.

An introduction is presented in which the author discusses articles within the issue on topics including the animated visuals in the movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse," visual effects of the mystery television series "A Murder at the End of the World, and the future of artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.

The article discusses trends. Mark Zuckerberg's ringing endorsement of the metaverse, coupled with Facebook changing its name to Meta, meant that the term and all it entails came barreling into the common zeitgeist earlier this year. Advances in virtual and augmented reality, blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and 5G networks combine to promise a metaverse that is immersive and decentralized.

The article informs that "Y: The Last Man" is a new FX on Hulu drama based on the DC Comics series by Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra, where Muse VFX has contributed visual effects to the series. Muse VFX had a remote pipeline set up before the pandemic, but COVID-19 pandemic really pushed the studio to take advantage of it.

The article looks at the innovative filmmaking techniques used in the television space western series "The Mandalorian," created by actor-director Jon Favreau. Highlights include Favreau's vision of how he wanted to film the series and the technology that would be required, the use of StageCraft audio software to manage and live edit all the environments, and concept art and initial designs created by design director Doug Chiang and his team.

The article explores the history of Walt Disney feature animation which created by third dimension computer graphic tools. It discusses the views of Ed Catmull, Pixar president on praising about his first film. It mentions celebrating of third dimension computer graphic including modeling, shading, and animation.

The article offers a review of the software control system Flair from Mark Roberts Motion Control (MRMC).

The article offers information related to the Motion capture, predominantly technology-led process that enables storytellers. It informs that the successful implementation of mocap in films requires an understanding of the craft that goes beyond pure technical expertise. It also emphasizes the importance of motion capture and related technologies for filmmakers.

The article focuses on how animators use computer graphics to help in complex medical concepts. Topics include the microscopic monster has impacted the lives of people around the globe never have imagined, the use illustrations and animations to help the medical community as well as scholars, and the public accurately communicate complex information in the case of COVID-19, put a face to this invisible infectious agent.

The article presents information on the importance of the visual effects used in the recent superhero movies including Solo: A Star Wars story and Antman, and the use of computer graphics in the development of characters. Topics include the use of puppets, innovation of the surface texture and photo-modeling of the sets.

The article presents information on the development of the theme for the movie 'Jurassic Park', highlighting the use of visual effects by the Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) team and computer graphics in film-making. Topics include the importance of visual effects in the film, the creation of the Raptors, and the requirement of skilled stuntmen. INSETS: On Location;Real-time Previs;Miniature Choreography;Petting Zoo

The article presents information on the creation of the virtual dinosaurs for the movie 'Jurassic Park' with the help of computer graphics (CG), and the creation of the photorealistic scenes. Topics include the development of pteranodons, creation of foggy illusions, and the use of simulators for the T-rex.

The article focuses on the computer graphics used in the animated feature film "Ferdinand," from Blue Sky Studios and 20th Century Fox Animation. It states that the crew raised the bar in terms of character development, lighting and rendering, and construction of the environments, and mentions that the team used full radiosity, achieved through the latest upgrade of the studio's longtime proprietary renderer, CGI Studio.

The article focuses on the use of different computer graphics software for creating visual effects in films by filmmaker and producer Neill Blomkamp. It states effects used in the "Adam: The Mirror" and "Adam: Episode 3," directed by Neill Blomkamp and created by Oats Studios, and presents comments from Chris Harvey, VFX supervisor at Oats, on use of game engines. It notes that lighting was done in engine, and the rendering was handled in real time.

The article offers information on visual effects in Marvel's latest superhero film "Black Panther," created by different studios. It states that Geoffrey Baumann, a visual effects supervisor at Marvel Studios who previously led second unit teams on films like "Doctor Strange," was overall visual effects supervisor, and mentions that the film used studios like ILM, Scanline, and Trixter. It notes the process of creating effects to show a futuristic city.

Despite the capabilities of state-of-the-art animation software and talented computer artists, starring roles in weekly live-action television shows have been virtually nonexistent for digital characters. This is because of the […]

The article reports that Movement in the Metaverse is what will differentiate this virtual world from game-play environments or other virtual environments already in existence. The use of motion-tracking technology to embody and drive avatars in the Metaverse is fundamental to self-expression, community-building, and even the preservation of our unique identities — or ‘motion-print'.

The article reports that after a three-year hiatus, the NAB (National Association of Broadcasters) Show returned to Las Vegas in April 2022 for a full in-person exhibition and conference program. With over 52,000 registered attendees representing 155 countries across the globe, this year's event continued its reign as the world's largest annual convention for the broadcast, entertainment, and technology industries.

In computer graphics, as in life, nature can be an unwieldy force to be reckoned with. The complexity and unpredictability that define it can bring even the most adept CG […]

The article discusses the launching of open standard and codebase called MaterialX, the third open-source project. It discusses MaterialX was authored as a collaboration between Doug Smythe and Jonathan Stone. It mentions Lucasfilm which began leveraging MaterialX as a vehicle for transferring material content.

For almost a decade, Space Station Freedom was a prominent feature of the US space program. The focus of constant project frequently bogged down by budget battles and subject to […]

Pinned to the wall as casually as last year's snapshot of the kids is the last matte painting created at Industrial Light & Magic (San Rafael, CA) by an artist […]

CGW looks at some of the silver-screen successes of the past 12 months--from a digital point of view Doesn't it seem as if every year, you hear people in the […]

Extra-long pipe cleaners. Multicolored gum drops. Bird wire. These were the components of my seventh-grade science fair project, a replica of a DNA molecule. On a certain level--with the pipe […]

In the best of all possible worlds, an animator could point imperiously at a computer graphics character and command, "You. Run down those stairs, quickly." And it would. An industrial […]

The article discusses that audiences have an insatiable appetite for new and higher-fidelity y content, and they don't want to settle for anything less than incredible. The quality of the last amazing thing they experienced is now their baseline expectation, and studios have no intention of letting viewers down.

Calibration tools and device-independent management systems should spark an explosion in color publishing About seven years ago, key developments including Postscript and Apple's LaserWriter printer launched the desktop publishing revolution […]

Competition in the Olympics begins years before the athletes are even on the field Shooting bands of light burst forth from a global cylinder, forming the universally recognized, five-ring hallmark […]

Documents used to be fairly passive. Perhaps, if they were reasonably well-written, they may have been called lively. Some might have even been said to have words that 'jumped off […]

As the worldwide economy skids and skitters through recession, deals with war in the Middle East and the restoration of an Eastern Europe market calcified from 50 years of communism, […]

A New Palette For a long time, there was a gap in the electronic prepress industry. Lots of companies manufactured prepress systems that were useful only in the production/assembly stage […]

Water, Water, Everywhere The way the sun shimmers off the dancing ocean waves and plays surrealistic games of light and dark down on the bottom of a pool is as […]

Making Waves I spent the afternoon and evening at the shore yesterday, seeking some last, ultimate kiss of inspiration before beginning this exploration of water and wave simulation--and I wasn't […]

Hollywood Style What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think of sophisticated computer animation? The highly stylized, flashing logos major TV networks use to introduce everything from […]

Atlanta Gets the Gold The first competition of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games has already been played. And the city of Atlanta has been declared the winner. With the help […]

From the Computer Screen to the Silver Screen Once upon a time, in 1974, Dr. Ivan Sutherland, the computer graphics pioneer who wrote the first interactive digital graphics program, "Sketchpad," […]

Wild and Woolly Theme Park Rides Quick! Elroy's just been abducted from Bedrock by Dick Dastardly and the foul Muttley, who are jealous of Elroy's popular TV program, "The Jetsons." […]

Cosmic Art In retrospect, the theme for this year's Truevision videographics art competition -- 'The Cosmic Thing' --couldn't have been more appropriate. Indeed, while the term was intentionally left undefined […]

Squeezes to the Fore Image compression, the fine art of shoving a gallon of picture in to a pint of memoryM is currently coming into its own. Spurred by the […]

Holy pixels, it's Batman, The Caped Crusader not only returned last year to the movie screen in Batman but has also recently taken his struggle for truth and justice back […]

Visualizing Math Mathematics used to be the last, great, Darwinian battleground. Students slogged through endless exercises in graphing -- creating little anthills of eraser crumbs, wearing holes in their graph […]

The AEC/CAD Market While it's usually classified as a single market segment in CAD market forecasts, the ACEC/CAD (architecture, engineering, construction/computer-aided design) subsegment is actually a mosaic of fragmented submarkets, […]

Optimizing Halftones Producing line art on a laser printer or typesetter is a fairly simple matter. Unless you've converted your scanned image to a draw format, its resolution will be […]