A gallery of images of the historic project to create the first image of a black hole, or more precisely, of the shadow created by the sphere of a black hole’s horizon. The gigantic black hole in galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is the size of our solar system. The M87 black hole is actively creating [...]
This post features a video in which Peter (colorist for Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter films, Faust, Inside Llewyn Davis) compares the highlights and blacks of film print, Xenon DCI and Laser HDR projection, and gives an overview of his HDR workflow…. The video is an edit of Peter’s presentation shot by Pauline Maillet [...]
I have written a post of my impressions of the amazing Virtual Reality istallation by director Alejandro G. Iñarritu with cinematographer Emmanuel (“Chivo”) Lubezki, that I saw at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Alejandro and Chivo have previously collaborated on Birdman and The Revenant. Carne y Arena is presently showing in Los Angeles and Milan. [...]
— Martin Halle’s vimeo channel offers an interesting split-screen of a bridge disaster VFX sequence for Final Destination 5, that shows the live action and green screen elements. Notice how the real truck helps sell the effect. The link to video is below. watch on vimeo +++
This post continues my impressions of some of the current and future cinema technology presented at the IBC trade show in Amsterdam. +++ SUMMARY 1. LED Smart Light Marc Galerne K5600 Lighting, Frieder Hochheim Kinoflo 2. Texture Equaliser Daniele Siragusano – Filmlight 3. VFX in Real Time Adam Myhill from Unity and VFX consultant Habib [...]
A first post about new tools and technologies seen at IBC 2018: SUMMARY 1. HDR Bryce Button and AJA Image analyzer 2. Full Frame 3. Hydrogen Buzz 4. Netflix Effect 5. Direct View 6. HDR and fps Pete Ludé 7. Geoff Boyle 8. Bill Bennett (and Tony Davis) Real D TrueMotion link: http://bit.ly/ibcSensorsScreensThefilmbook
Panavision has announced ULTRA VISTA a new series of large format anamorphic lenses, with a press release, and a striking vimeo demo. They are announced for release in 2019. Some key features: Image Size – The Red Monstro 8K sensor is 8192 x 4320 pixels, and is 40.96 x 21.60 mm – Ultra Vista lenses [...]
dvmobile’s stereo 3D VR camera rig +++ I went to the Screen4All Forum day dedicated to Virtual Reality (or 360 Immersion), at l’Usine in Paris and took these photos of the booths and presentations +++ links Screen4All Mediakwest adastra-films.com/en digitalimmersion.fr dvmobile.fr entapano.com/jp (Entayina) gopro.com/ horamvr.com innerspacevr.com kolor.com okio-studio.com starbreeze.com video-stitch.com +++
Projection onto the dome at the SAT in Montreal My fifth post about Virtual Reality Cinema covers: 1. cameras 2. headsets 3. distribution 4. Stereo, Pano, Ciné + camera & software 5. environments, events & processes 6. loci 7. audio 8. domes 9. interactivity 10. recording depth maps 11. empathy & uncanny valley 12. futures [...]
Chris Milk TED talk +++ My fourth post on my ASC blog about Virtual Reality Cinema covers: 1. simple beginnings 2. being there 3. fixed or moving 360 4. shorts 5. documentary versus fiction 6. theater without a crew 7. editing? 8. intimacy 9. Clouds Over Sidra 10. empathy +++ LINK http://bit.ly/VRCinema4-thefilmbook- +++