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Epic is changing Unreal Engine’s pricing for non-game developers
The change will happen sometime next year and will charge some users on a per-seat model, similar to Photoshop pricing.
Game developers using Unreal Engine won’t be affected and will continue to pay for a license based on a royalty model. However, users in industries like film or automotive will be moved to per-seat pricing, meaning they’ll be charged for the subscription the same way someone might pay for Photoshop.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/5/23905082/epic-unreal-engine-pricing-change-film-automotive
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Luma Interactive Scenes announced: Gaussian Splatting
https://neuralradiancefields.io/luma-interactive-scenes-announced/
“…these are in fact Gaussian Splats that are being run and it’s a proprietary iteration of the original Inria paper. They hybridize the performance gain of realtime rendering with Gaussian Splatting with robust cloud based rendering that’s already widely being used in commercial applications. This has been in the works for a while over at Luma and I had the opportunity to try out some of my datasets on their new method.”
MICHAEL RUBLOFF
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Meta Quest 3 is here
https://www.roadtovr.com/meta-quest-3-oculus-preview-connect-2023/
- Better lenses
- Better resolution
- Better processor
- Better audio
- Better passthrough
- Better controllers
- Better form-factor
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HuggingFace ai-comic-factory – a FREE AI Comic Book Creator
https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory
this is the epic story of a group of talented digital artists trying to overcame daily technical challenges to achieve incredibly photorealistic projects of monsters and aliens
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Blackmagic Camera Introducing Digital Film for iPhone!
https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/ca/products/blackmagiccamera
You can adjust settings such as frame rate, shutter angle, white balance and ISO all in a single tap. Or, record directly to Blackmagic Cloud in industry standard 10-bit Apple ProRes files up to 4K! Recording to Blackmagic Cloud Storage lets you collaborate on DaVinci Resolve projects with editors anywhere in the world, all at the same time!
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Getting Started With 3D Gaussian Splatting for Windows (Beginner Tutorial)
https://www.reshot.ai/3d-gaussian-splatting
what are 3D Gaussians? They are a generalization of 1D Gaussians (the bell curve) to 3D. Essentially they are ellipsoids in 3D space, with a center, a scale, a rotation, and “softened edges”.
Each 3D Gaussian is optimized along with a (viewdependant) color and opacity. When blended together, here’s the visualization of the full model, rendered from ANY angle. As you can see, 3D Gaussian Splatting captures extremely well the fuzzy and soft nature of the plush toy, something that photogrammetry-based methods struggle to do.
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Composition – 5 tips for creating perfect cinematic lighting and making your work look stunning
http://www.diyphotography.net/5-tips-creating-perfect-cinematic-lighting-making-work-look-stunning/
1. Learn the rules of lighting
2. Learn when to break the rules
3. Make your key light larger
4. Reverse keying
5. Always be backlighting
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Macro photography stacking
The main question being: Is it better to use a macro rail or is it better to vary the focus of the lens?
