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Year: 2021
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Amazon Buys MGM for $8.45 Billion
variety.com/2021/biz/news/amazon-buys-mgm-studio-behind-james-bond-for-8-45-billion-1234980526/
For Amazon, snapping up MGM — which has more than 4,000 movies and 17,000 TV shows in its catalog — is a way to supercharge its Prime Video service with a slew of well-known entertainment titles.
In addition, Amazon is anticipating being able to mine Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer properties like the Pink Panther, Rocky and, the 007 franchises for new originals.
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Your Career in Animation: How to Survive and Thrive – book by Veteran animation director and author David B. Levy
www.awn.com/animationworld/your-career-animation-how-survive-and-thrive-now-available
“The new edition of his book is filled with insight and advice from over 150 animation industry professionals, a wide-ranging tome of suggestions, reality checks, and inspiration on how to set your sights and blaze your own career trail. He shares practical tips on building a reel, portfolio, and resume; pitching and selling shows; and taking to heart and learning from on-the-job criticism.”
“Everyone seems to agree, and I certainly do, and it’s my POV in the book, that self-development is everything. You shouldn’t wait for anyone to make you anything, to give you opportunities you haven’t earned yet.”
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Amazon Nimble Studio – cloud based virtual production studios
Using Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can create a new content production studio in just a few hours. Artists then have immediate access to high-performance workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances with NVIDIA GPUs, shared file storage from Amazon FSx, and low-latency streaming via the AWS global network. Content production studios can onboard remote teams from around the world and provide them access to just the right amount of high-performance infrastructure for only as long as needed – all without having to procure, set up, and manage local workstations, file systems, and low-latency networking.
https://aws.amazon.com/nimble-studio
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Official Pytorch implementation of Detailed Expression Capture and Animation
DECA reconstructs a 3D head model with detailed facial geometry from a single input image. The resulting 3D head model can be easily animated.
The code is based on Learning an Animatable Detailed 3D Face Model from In-The-Wild Images
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