As a country, India is famous for the early adoption of technology and is home to revolutions in programming and green tech. India has a history of working toward greener
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The past decade has been a challenging—and transformative—period for the visual effects (VFX) industry, working behind the scenes to bring movies and TV to audiences while weathering multiple economic storms.
Continue readingKorean VFX company Dexter Studios is becoming a total content powerhouse
3D printing captured the world’s attention in the 2000s as the first consumer models arrived on desktops, but its history goes back much further. Born as a concept at the
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Twenty years ago, when Stephen Spielberg began adapting Philip K. Dick’s Minority Report for the big screen, he assembled the biggest thinkers in science and technology to help him envision the cities of
There’s a whole new way to make media and entertainment (M&E) content using game engines, sound stages, LED screens, and digital data. Welcome to the age of virtual production. Avatar
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In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, the character Gollum is an entirely digital creation based on the performance of actor Andy Serkis. Serkis was initially cast to
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3D reality capture has roots in the simpler process of surveying, which involves recording a construction site’s measurements and data. As other modern spatial plotting techniques such as LIDAR/point clouds,
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The most important thing to consider when designing a parking lot is what it will be used for—a lot for a large corporate office park will have very different characteristics
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Society has spent much of the late 20th century and early 21st century making hard-won legal and cultural gains around inclusivity. As a result, discrimination based on gender, race, sexuality,
Motion blur is a naturally occurring visual phenomenon when objects move through space too fast for the human eye to capture full visual fidelity. On film, motion blur occurs when
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