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- RIOT GAMES AND FORTICHE GET REVOLUTIONARY WITH ARCANE SEASON 2 April 15, 2025By TREVOR HOGG Images courtesy of Riot Games and Netflix. Animating video games or music videos is one thing, but independently producing an animated television series that streams on Netflix is an entirely different animal. This is something Riot Games learned after spending $250 million to create two nine-episode seasons of Arcane, a spin-off of […]
- HOW VIRTUAL EFFECTS BRING THE SPARK TO LIVE SHOWS AND BROADCASTS April 8, 2025By TREVOR HOGG There was a time when the audience was left to fill in the visual gaps with their imagination when attending live events, but this is no longer the case as stage productions have become technologically sophisticated and proficient in incorporating visual effects as part of the performance. This also applies to broadcast […]
- THE RISE OF REAL-TIME VFX AND WHERE IT’S GOING April 1, 2025By TREVOR HOGG Real-time software programs are being developed by Chaos, such as the ray tracing renderer Vantage and Arena, which does ray tracing for in-camera effects. (Images courtesy of Chaos) Virtual production could not exist without real-time rendering, customarily associated with game engines such as Unreal Engine and Unity. Still, real-time technology is also […]
- VIRTUAL PRODUCTION NOW AND GOING FORWARD April 1, 2025By TREVOR HOGG Preparing for a virtual production shoot of a Vertibird featured in Fallout. (Image courtesy of All of it Now) Has virtual production revolutionized filmmaking, beginning with The Mandalorian in 2019, and accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic a year later? The answer is ‘no,’ but the methodology has become an accepted alternative to […]