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How the VFX industry is recovering from last year’s strikes
Jonathan Bronfman, CEO at MARZ, tells us: “I don’t think the industry will ever be the same. It will recover slowly in 2024. The streaming wars cost studios too much money and now they are all reevaluating their strategies.”
He notes that AI will play a big role in how things shake out. “Technology is pushing out the traditional approach, something which is long overdue. Studios in Hollywood have been operating the same way for decades, and now AI will move them off their pedestal.
“The entire industry is in for a reckoning. I think studios would have come to this realisation eventually, so it was inevitable, but I think the pressure from the strikes accelerated this.”
https://www.vfxwire.com/how-the-vfx-industry-is-recovering-from-last-years-strikes/
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Using Meta’s Llama 3 for your business
Meta is the only Big Tech company committed to developing AI, particularly large language models, with an open-source approach.
There are 3 ways you can use Llama 3 for your business:
1- Llama 3 as a Service
Use Llama 3 from any cloud provider as a service. You pay by use, but the price is typically much cheaper than proprietary models like GPT-4 or Claude.
→ Use Llama 3 on Azure AI catalog:
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-machine-learning-blog/introducing-meta-llama-3-models-on-azure-ai-model-catalog/ba-p/41171442- Self-Hosting
If you have GPU infrastructure (on-premises or cloud), you can run Llama 3 internally at your desired scale.
→ Deploy Llama 3 on Amazon SageMaker:
https://www.philschmid.de/sagemaker-llama33- Desktop (Offline)
Tools like Ollama allow you to run the small model offline on consumer hardware like current MacBooks.
→ Tutorial for Mac:
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VES – How Generative AI Might Affect VFX Now and In the Future
Panelists include Author and Distinguished Research Scientist in DL/ML & CG at Wētā FX Dr. Andrew Glassner, VFX, Post & Technology Recruiter and VES 1st Vice Chair Susan O’Neal, CTO at Cinesite Group and VES Technology Committee member Michele Sciolette and Shareholder & Co-Chair of Buchalter’s Entertainment Industry Group and Adjunct Professor at Southwestern Law School Stephen Strauss, moderated by VES Technology Committee member and Media & Entertainment Executive, CTO & Industry Advisor Barbara Ford Grant.
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Is it possible to get a dark yellow
https://www.patreon.com/posts/102660674
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/stephenwestland_here-is-a-post-about-the-dark-yellow-problem-activity-7187131643764092929-7uCL
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Light-Matter Particle Breakthrough Could Change Displays Forever
https://scitechdaily.com/light-matter-particle-breakthrough-could-change-displays-forever/
This foundational polariton particle breakthrough could lead to significant improvements in displays using an entirely novel approach compared to all previous ones. One significant difference is the ability of each polaritron to emit any wavelength, eliminating the need for separate red, green and blue (RGB) emitters intermixed in a grid. They are also able the achieve significantly greater energy levels, in other words, brightness.
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Position-Based Nonlinear Gauss-Seidel (PBNG), a robust, fast and convergent muscle simulator
Implemented in Chaos Flesh and Chaos Cloth as a part of Unreal Engine.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.09021
https://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/OPM3/unreal-engine-chaos-cloth-tool-overviewhttps://dev.epicgames.com/community/learning/tutorials/BEby/unreal-engine-chaos-flesh
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boldtron – 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗪𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗚𝗨𝗡𝗦
See this Instagram post by @boldtron using ComfyUI + Krea
https://www.instagram.com/p/C5v-H0PNYYg/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
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Are AI startups in trouble?
Stability AI, the maker of the image generator Stable Diffusion, has been very publicly sinking. After securing more than $100 million in fundraising in 2022, the company has spent the better
part of the last year struggling to pay its bills.
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