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Peter Jackson Selling Weta Digital’s VFX Tech Division to Unity for $1.625 Billion
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/unity-weta-deal/
variety.com/2021/digital/news/unity-acquires-weta-digital-1235107544/
Under the deal, Unity is obtaining the Weta Digital suite of VFX tools and technology and its team of 275 engineers, who will join Unity’s Create Solutions division.
Joe Marks, Weta’s chief technology officer, will join Unity as CTO of Weta Digital.
Weta Digital’s VFX and animation teams will continue to exist as a standalone entity, known as WetaFX, which is expected to become Unity’s largest customer in the media and entertainment space. WetaFX, with about 1,700 employees, will remain majority-owned by Jackson and led by CEO Prem Akkaraju. The proposed deal is expected to close before the end of 2021, subject to regulatory approvals.
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K-Lens One – A Light Field Lens that captures RGB + Depth
www.newsshooter.com/2021/10/31/klens-one-a-light-field-lens-that-captures-rgb-depth/
A mirror system (Image Multiplier) in the K|Lens splits the light rays into 9 separate images that are mapped on the camera sensor. All 9 of these images have slightly different perspectives. The best way to picture it is if you imagine using 9 separate cameras in a narrow array at the same time.
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Floating point precision and errors in 3D production
https://blog.demofox.org/2017/11/21/floating-point-precision
https://www.h-schmidt.net/FloatConverter/IEEE754.html
The challenge with precision limits in production is tightly connected to the context of the assets, camera and procedural requirements the render scene needs to support.
For example a far away camera chasing a plane may not reveal issues that the same scene may show with a far away camera’s closeup of a displaced water drop on the plane’s windshield.
This is a rough example, but it helps putting things in perspective.Always best testing for specific patterns or targets within a given setup.
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Plex – an open source Visual Effects, Animation and Games pipeline
www.alexanderrichtertd.com/post/plex-open-source-pipeline
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