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Netflix Sweet Home – VFX features
Netflix爆紅的漫畫改編影集《Sweet Home》, 除了靚女多 , 特效也超多 , 當中不少實體化妝特效加上VFX處理 , 由Legacy Effects , Spectral Motion ,Madness FX等外國團隊參與製作 , VFX亦有大量單位參與處理包括南韓的Westworld , Moo Media , Realade Vfx . 越南的Cyclo VFX . 等超過十多個單位參與 . 早前有關製作影片發放 ~
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 LIVE Day 4
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 來到星期日最後一天的 LIVE (部份)會議了 !! 由於今年部份會議都提供錄影觀看 , 購票後仍可慢慢重溫細看!!
今日重點講座~ 先來有 Games環節的 :
ZooBuilder: 3D Animation Generation from Videos for Quadrupeds
(Mr. Abassin Sourou Fangbemi – Ubisoft China, Mr Alexis ROLLAND – Ubisoft China)
— Accelerating 3D Deep Learning with PyTorch3D (Ms Georgia Gkioxari – Facebook AI Research)
Featured Sessions 的 Clinical Virtual Reality: Seven Ways that Virtual Reality Will Change the World of Mental Healthcare
(Dr. Skip Rizzo – Institute for Creative Technologies Medical VR Lab, University of Southern California)
Emerging Technologies 的Alt Displays有香港代表 : Interactive Minimal Latency Laser Graphics Pipeline
(Mr Jayson Haebich – City University of Hong Kong, Dr. Christian Sandor – Associate Professor – School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, Dr. Alvaro CASSINELLI – School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong)
電腦動畫節主題 : Harnessing Technology to Tell Your Story: A Talk with Jorge Gutierrez (Jorge Gutierrez)
Designing Trolls World Tour (Walt Dohrn & Kendal Cronkhite, DreamWorks Animation)
技術論文討論 香港代表有 : Mononizing Binocular Videos
(Menghan XIA – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chi-Wing FU – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Tien-Tsin Wong – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Mr. Wenbo HU – The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
今年最後一節會議 有重量級的 From VFX to Virtual Production—DNEG’s Paul Franklin on Lessons Learned in This New Filmmaking Paradigm (Mr Paul Franklin – VFX Supervisor and Creative Director – DNEG)
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 LIVE Day 3
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 第三天的 LIVE(部份)會議 !! 今日內容超豐富 , 包括幾套動畫電影製作 -廸士尼動畫製作室的 Making Disney Animation’s Raya and the Last Dragon
– Tomm Moore ( Cartoon Saloon) 的 The Making of Wolfwalkers
– Netflix 動畫電影 Producing Over the Moon (Gennie Rim – Glen Keane Productions, Peilin Chou – Netflix)
其他的, 繼續有 Epic Games 講VP- Retraining Creative Industries: Unreal Fellowship For Virtual Production
– How to Train Your Cloud – Domin Lee (DreamWorks)
技術論文討論的有 :FaceMagic: Real-time Facial Detail Effects on Mobile
（Dr Llogari Casas – Disney Research, 3FINERY LTD）
來自香港學府參與的研究－Unsupervised Detection of Distinctive Regions on 3D Shapes （Chi-Wing FU – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Daniel Cohen-Or – Tel Aviv University, Lequan Yu – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Pheng-Ann Heng – Chinese University of Hong Kong, Miss. Xianzhi LI）
－ Manga Filling Style Conversion with Screentone Variational Autoencoder
（Miss Minshan XIE – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Chengze Li – The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xueting Liu – Caritas Institute of Higher Education, Tien-Tsin Wong – The Chinese University of Hong Kong）
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 LIVE Day 2
SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 今日踏入第二日LIVE(部份)會議 !! 今日一大清早已有Epic Games的 Creating In-Camera VFX with Real-Time Workflows , 其他重點還有 :
– Advances in Real-time Cinematics in “The Last of Us Part II”
– Visualization for the Digital Transformation Era “VR Digital Platform”
– Digital humans are back! Creating and using believable avatars in the age of Covid – Part 2
– An Introduction to Physics-based Animation
The 57th Golden Horse Awards winnners
第57屆金馬獎頒獎典禮上週未已舉行 , 當中我們較注意的獎項得獎者如下 :
最佳視覺效果 – 《消失的情人節》(My Missing Valentine )
視覺特效總監 – 郭憲聰
製作 : 再現影像 Renovatio FX
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最佳動畫長片 -《廢棄之城》( City of Lost Things )
導演 – 易智言 / 西基動畫製作
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最佳動畫短片 -《夜車》( Night Bus )
導演 – 謝文明
Unreal Build: Virtual Production sessions on-demand
由EPIC Games 舉辦的 「Unreal Build: Virtual Production」教學直播前晚已舉行完畢 ,無崖眼訓的現在可看錄播分享 , 分拆十小段落方便重溫!!
VIEW Conference 2020 On-Demand Sessions
歐洲最大CG/VFX活動 – VIEW Conference 2020 點播觀看部份上線 , 包括 113 場會議內容 , 當中有Keynote ED CATMULL with Ed Catmull (PIXAR創辦
人之一) , Talks on the latest AI techniques in entertainment production (Google’s Paul Debevec and Alonso Martinez) , Director and Disney animator Tony Bancroft on animating comedy characters and the mis-adventures of Animal Crackers , Workshops on 2D Concept Art, Animated Cinematography, the Art of Storytelling, and Texturing with Substance Painter . Panels on the Future of Cinema, Future of Storytelling, and Future of Virtual Production 等等
Framestore Buys Company 3 and Method
據外媒報導 , 總部位於英國的著名VFX製作單位 Framestore 聯同投資公司Aleph Capital 及 Crestview Partners 公布收購著名後期處理單位 Company 3, 及著名VFX單位 Method Studios !!
Company 3 及 Method Studios 原先是Deluxe 其下子公司 , 直到去年其中的Deluxe Entertainment被財金公司Platinum Equity收購 , Company 3 及 Method Studios 等多間公司則繼續獨立運作
