Archives for VFX

11 Sep

Machine Learning Is Getting Better At Video Editing: Makes People To Disappear

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The researchers at Virginia Tech and Facebook AI have come with an improved technique that allows machine learning to edit videos like never before. With their paper titled, “Flow-edge Guided Video Completion”, they have presented a new flow-based video completion algorithm. Video completion in this context refers to filling up a pre-recorded video with newly…

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05 Sep

Avatar Makers Venture Into Cloud Based VFX Workflows

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Ang Lee’s 2012, Oscar-nominated movie, Life Of Pi needed 30 hours to render a single image. Imagine the number of frames that will be generated if we freeze a 2-hour long movie. That’s a lot of hours. Visual effects artists use a wide range of animation software to integrate computer-generated imagery with live-action footage. Rendering…

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15 Oct

How Cloud Platforms Are Accelerating VFX Filmmaking Process 

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The evolution of a computer can be tracked by the way it has improved its ability to process graphics or perform simulations. This is a computation-heavy task which took years for the hardware to catch up with the imagination of an artist.  Since visual effects in movies used the same computational resources to render their…

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