Intel Open Image Denoise helped in creating high-fidelity, photorealistic visuals for the movie. Cinesite wanted the movie The Addams Family 2 to be bigger and better than its first part. The digital entertainment studio thus partnered with Intel to create amazing and creative visuals to justify the backdrops and depict the adventures of Addams family in the movie. … [Read more...] about Intel and Cinesite collaborate to enhance visual storytelling: The Addams Family 2
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Nvidia’s Q3 FY22 results
Revenue $7.1 billion, up 50% from a year earlier, profit up 84% to $2.46 billion. Nvidia's Q3’21 earnings report continues the company’s revenue gains and sets another record. For the third quarter ended October 31, 2021, the company reported sales of $7.1 billion, up 50% from a year earlier and up 9.2% from the previous quarter, with record revenue from the company’s … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s Q3 FY22 results
Prime Focus Technologies enhances its AI/ML offering for M&E enterprises
Its CLEAR Vision Cloud platform offers five M&E use cases for ready deployment. Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), creator of ERP software CLEAR for the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry, has announced five AI/ML use cases for M&E enterprises: conformance, segmentation, localization, marketing, and content QC. These use cases are ready for … [Read more...] about Prime Focus Technologies enhances its AI/ML offering for M&E enterprises
Colour.ai introduces Look Designer 2 with support for realtime game engines
Triple-A games use Look Designer 2.0 for cinematic look and feel for engaging gameplay experiences. Color Intelligence is the brainchild of Dado Valentic, a veteran color scientist who has worked in the movie industry across the transition from film to digital. He established the Mytherapy studio as an imaging resource for the industry. He founded Color Intelligence in … [Read more...] about Colour.ai introduces Look Designer 2 with support for realtime game engines
The Genie that makes entertainment great
Every time you watch a video or listen to music on your phone, computer, or TV, you use a data compressor–decompressor called a CODEC. By compressing the data representing the content you’re interested in, more people can use the already crowded networks we rely on every day, all day. The primary CODEC in use today is MPEG—the Moving Picture Experts Group. It has served us … [Read more...] about The Genie that makes entertainment great
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the Year
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has been honored with the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award at the 19th Asian American Engineer of the Year Award and Conference ceremony that took place virtually on July 18, 2021. The AAEOY Award is a prestigious program that pays particular tribute to the STEM professionals of Asian heritage for their technical achievements, leadership, and … [Read more...] about Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang gets Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award by Asian American Engineer of the Year
Nvidia’s new supercomputer Cambridge-1 aims to accelerate U.K. healthcare research with AI and simulation
By Neil Leavitt Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia Corporation recently launched Cambridge-1—the United Kingdom’s most powerful supercomputer—to fully harness the capabilities of AI and simulation. The move is expected to accelerate the digital biology revolution, targeting diseases and propelling the life sciences industry in exciting new directions. Cambridge-1 will … [Read more...] about Nvidia’s new supercomputer Cambridge-1 aims to accelerate U.K. healthcare research with AI and simulation
Dell’s upgrades for workstations promise more connection and collaboration
Machines are getting smaller, lighter, faster, and quieter. Reflecting a trend in attitudes and awareness, Dell’s latest PC and workstation updates are directed at creative artists with the same enthusiasm that it traditionally had for designers, engineers, and scientists. This is not exactly new. Dell and HP always battled for the high end of creativity—movie makers, VFX, … [Read more...] about Dell’s upgrades for workstations promise more connection and collaboration
What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
Tackling the next 300 billion devices from the IoT up to supercomputers. Arm showed its first new architecture in a decade at its recent one-day virtual conference. Arm introduces their v9 design and provided their macro view of future semiconductor development. As it turns out, from Arm’s perspective, Arm devices will control the world. All data will either be generated, … [Read more...] about What’s Arm up to? Anything you want to throw at it
Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021
New brushes, AI features, performance improvement, and Sidecar support. Painter Essentials 8, the latest addition to Corel’s Painter family, has arrived. Painter Essentials is essentially a slimmed-down version of Corel’s high-end painting tool Painter for digital artists which sells for $429 on the Corel site. The Painter Essentials tool is $49.99. Slimming down … [Read more...] about Painter Essentials 8 gets updated features from parent product Painter 2021