Epic Games announced a $2 billion round of funding to advance the company’s vision to build the metaverse and support its continued growth. This round includes investments from existing investor Sony Group Corporation as well as KIRKBI, the family-owned holding and investment company behind The LEGO Group, with each party investing $1 billion respectively. All[…..] […]
Gaming isn’t just for fun, it can also fill your wallet! Too good to be true? Not with ZEBEDEE. BIG Festival 2022, the largest festival and market for games in Latin America, is host to some of the most innovative games and new gaming technologies out there… and ZEBEDEE wouldn’t miss it! Whether you’re a[…..] […]
ZEISS is launching a new digital service that delivers frame-accurate lens distortion and shading data for the VFX industry. This data is essential for digital compositing and matchmoving in order to achieve a cinematic result that is as realistic and precise as possible. “Normally, lens grids must be recorded and processed in order to obtain[…..] […]
German mobile games market grows by 22 per cent Sales revenue from mobile games in Germany increased to approximately 2.8 billion euros in 2021 In-app purchases continue to be the biggest driver of growth Market share of game apps available for purchase continues to decline The huge variety of mobile games and their easy availability[…..] […]
Major updates to Riva, an SDK for building speech AI applications, and a paid Riva Enterprise offering were announced at NVIDIA GTC 2022 last week. Several key updates to NeMo Megatron, a framework for training Large Language Models, were also announced. Riva 2.0 general availability Riva offers world-class accuracy for real-time automatic speech recognition (ASR)[…..] […]
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The National Association of Broadcasters announced preliminary registered attendance of 52,468 for the 2022 NAB Show, the world’s largest annual convention for broadcasters and the broader media, entertainment and technology industries “We are thrilled that our exhibitors, attendees and partners from all corners of the world turned out in force this week in Las Vegas.[…..] […]
At SIGGRAPH 2021, Sony Pictures Imageworks presented a Talk on its stand-alone grooming software solution, Fyber, which is currently being used on all upcoming Sony films. While you may not have a software like Fyber to use for your project, hair grooming is a great skill to learn and we’ve got the information you need[…..] […]
Blackmagic Design announced DaVinci Resolve 18, a major new cloud collaboration update which allows multiple editors, colorists, VFX artists and audio engineers to work simultaneously on the same project, on the same timeline, anywhere in the world. DaVinci Resolve 18 supports the Blackmagic Cloud for hosting and sharing projects, as well as a new DaVinci[…..] […]
DreamWorks’ new film The Bad Guys embraces a more stylized look, especially when it comes to the spaces the characters exist in and the way they move. Pierre Perifel, director of Dreamwork Animation’s The Bad Guys notes, we’ve “seen the same type of rendering” occur with a “push toward realism.” He points out that Dreamworks[…..] […]
