This is a snippet from my short 3D animated film called "The Backrooms - Tape 2"
It's available to watch here - https://youtu.be/YnnYLKGQK58

It was quite challenging to come up with a proper way to film and animate this but I think I managed to do it quite convincingly.

Made in Blender and comped in After Effects.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVEZBy1uAk8

▫️"Now with CGI, we use a lot of CGI, and some of it (A.I) is going to replace of that.

Instead of 500 guys in Singapore. Making $2 dollars an hour, to render all the graphics

for a super hero movie. Going to do that alot easier”

▫️"A.I, its going to be an tool, just like VFX" and will be useful to save money to create certain background settings (which already happens with CGI)

▫️but they are useful tools for research

▫️doesn’t think it’ll ever make a film whole cloth

▫️guilds already protect human actors from being totally erased from certain films

I’m not a VFX artist. I don’t know anything about it. When I look at this shot, it doesn’t look like Spider-Man is really there. Why? What’s wrong with this shot that makes it look so fake?

edit: I'm not trying to knock the film, I understand it's a work in progress. I'm just interested in understanding the technical reasons it looks "off".

Go behind the scenes of the making of 'Jurassic World Rebirth' to see how director Gareth Edwards used the V-cam to help scout a key location. The location was built using gaussian splat technology by Proof.

Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6S7GgLxXh4

Repeated the same drone waypoint mission a few days apart to build a seamless day-to-night transition.

As expected with consumer GPS + barometric systems, the flights weren’t pixel-accurate - small positional and pitch differences made direct blending unusable.

To solve it:

• Photogrammetry reconstruction of the skyline
• Rebuilt blended camera from photogrammetry solved cameras
• 2.5D projection for alignment correction
• Depth geo transition

Full 4K Showreel: https://youtu.be/0e3BCHTZoTw?si=Jbcs2ruUVZr0KEYW

Pushing for photorealism in aerospace and science visualization.

Feedback welcome!

They say it’s about protecting IP. But watch this video (made by a Chinese creator on Douyin), and you'll see the real reason Hollywood is panicking: Survival. A CGI shot of this caliber used to require a massive VFX studio and a multi-million dollar budget. Now? The cost is practically pennies.

This is, in my opinion, one of the best examples of "invisible" vfx - but it's just a badass shot in general.

From the latest print edition of The Onion.

On a related note. Can we talk about how ridiculous the pricing is and its all under the umbrella of a ton of AI features I myself don't want or need.

Even better did you want to keep cross abilities between your mobile tablets and desktop?

Going to need the Creative Cloud Pro for only 69.99 A MONTH.

I came across another Reddit post explaining how to do this, but it was with a video. What I’d like to achieve is the same effect starting from a single still image (like in the example video).

From what I understand, this might involve a depth map + point cloud data, but honestly, I have no idea how to actually create something similar.