From depicting dinosaurs and the Ice Age to a massive tidal wave and idyllic neighborhood, the leading VFX and animation company helped create and then seamlessly move between scenes, shot from a stationary camera, spanning millions of years, in Robert Zemeckis’ latest film.
Combined company expected to be ‘well-positioned to meet the evolving needs of creative, media, and advertising industries through combined investment in content creation, event coverage, and product and technology innovation.’
With a voter turnout even greater than the last cycle’s turnout, a supermajority of IATSE Local 839 members voted to ratify the 2024-2027 Animation Guild Master Agreement.
For Rob Hoffman, Lenovo’s Senior Worldwide Manager for Media & Entertainment Vertical, insatiable consumer appetite for new experiences across film, TV, games and interactive experiences, in greater quantity with increasing fidelity, means, the future of entertainment content development continues to look strong.
The guild’s executive board reacts to what it notes are ‘a small minority’ getting ‘an outsized voice’ regarding the tentative AMPTP agreement, saying it has voted unanimously to recommend ratification.
Several members of the negotiating committee have expressed discontent on social media over the guild’s new AMPTP tentative agreement, citing a lack of protections for artists against generative AI and staffing minimums.
Members have expressed discontent over the agreement negotiated by the guild (TAG 839), citing a lack of protections for artists against generative AI and staffing minimums.
The gen AI-powered video platform allows fans of film and TV to create highly personalized and interactive movies based on a single selfie with their gen AI software.
Releasing today on Digital and January 21 on Blu-ray and DVD, the film reunites the ‘Forrest Gump’ director, writer, and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, who through AI-enabled VFX tools from Metaphysic, travel through several generations of family love, laughter and loss.
After 3 months of bargaining, the guild (TAG 839) has negotiated a new deal centered on fair wages, job security, and guardrails around Generative AI use.
The AI-powered visual effects studio built neural network models to portray actors Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany and Kelly Riley through time at different ages.
The Animation Guild, TAG 839, continued ramping up negotiations with a third ‘March on the Boss’ to remind animation industry execs that members will stand together to achieve fair wages, job security, and guardrails around Generative AI use.
The Animation Guild, TAG 839, ramped up negotiations with a second ‘March on the Boss’ to remind animation industry execs that members will stand together to achieve fair wages, job security, and guardrails around Generative AI use.
Powered by Video to 3D Scene technology, the Wonder Animation tool turns any video sequence into a 3D-animated scene via AI reconstruction; the beta is available now to Wonder Studio users.
A newly-created Office of Technological Enablement will be headed by previous Walt Disney Studios CTO Jamie Voris, and will explore opportunities and risks associated with AI, mixed reality, and other current and emerging tech.
The two groups will reconvene the week of November 18 for a series of negotiation sessions; TAG also voted to extend the current contract through December 2.
From post-production VFX to rendering and retouching, key content creation applications are employing AI and machine learning features, coupled with the latest AMD GPUs, to greatly increase artist productivity by speeding up routine tasks without the need to upload commercially sensitive data to the cloud.
The Animation Guild, TAG 839, ramped up negotiations with a ‘March on the Boss’ to remind execs at the streamer that members will stand together to achieve fair wages, job security, and guardrails around Generative AI use.
This collaboration, leveraging AWS's advanced cloud infrastructure and generative AI and machine learning services, aims to propel the evolution and global reach of Digital Domain's AVH technology and expand its use for multiple industries, including entertainment, gaming, healthcare, hospitality, and commercial applications.
Eminem’s 1999 alter ego returns, via AI, live onstage at the ceremony and on the music icon’s ‘Houdini’ video, which scored the first VFX VMA honor for a digital character recreated in an AI-powered pipeline – watch it here!
Releasing to the public in early fall, the asset platform company’s new gen AI-based service, drawing from its library of over 500,000 ethically-source 3D models and 650 million images, will provide creators the ability to generate elaborate new models in seconds, helping them simplify their early design process, bypass busywork, and focus on customizing and animating their characters.
Tech giant showcased new features that boost cloud-enabled workflows focusing on empowering teams and artists to work more efficiently; also teased, new AI capabilities coming to Maya and Flame following company’s acquisition of Wonder Dynamics.
New platform and service allows enterprises and sovereign nations to build custom generative AI models with domain-specific knowledge.
New functionality empowers IT and DevOps teams to automate preparation and deployment of customized ‘build candidate’ virtual machine images to any network connected machine from a single unified and user-friendly interface.
The animation production technology company jumps into the fray with promises of ethically supported and trained AI to protect the work of artists and programmers.
