Elemental's 7.3 Petabyte Render Farm, NVIDIA at SIGGRAPH, Meta's AI Music Maker

Welcome to VP Land - your daily update for all the latest news in movie tech.

In this issue:

🎼 AudioCraft, Meta’s 3 new sound creation models
💽 What’s NVIDIA showing at SIGGRAPH
🎞️ High frame rate virtual production

And more! Let’s dive in.

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Meta’s Open Source AI Music Maker

Meta is open-sourcing AudioCraft, generative AI for music. It consists of 3 models:

• MusicGen: Trained on Meta-owned and licensed music. Text-to-music generation.

• AudioGen: Trained on public sound effects

• EnCodec: Improved decoder for higher-quality music generation with fewer artifacts

What’s NVIDIA showing at SIGGRAPH?

Quick preview of what NVIDIA is showing off at SIGGRAPH 2023:

• Perfusion, a new text-to-image personalization method

• Live 3D Portrait for creating realistic models of faces from a single image

• Integrating AI models for neural rendering techniques

Check out their full session and speaker lineup.

Managing Elemental’s 7.3 Petabyte Render Farm

Video and case study on how Pixar used Vast Data to manage their 7.3-petabyte render farm for creating Elemental's volumetric characters (in a previous VP Land, we broke down how Pixar used AI and neural style transfer to animate the character's flaming hair).

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🌐 Around the Web

• A more in-depth breakdown of Rosco’s RDX Lab System, which was used to quickly adjust weather and lighting on the set of Full Circle (which we previously covered)

• Chelsea Football Club & Tempus Ex Machina are testing out a personalized, AI driven broadcast experience, “including graphic overlays, match statistics, automated highlights, augmented reality (AR), real-time player tracking and more.”

• A major film studio from twofour54 in the works in Abu Dhabi, complete with a VP volume

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• Demo of Xtory Creator Studio, which provides a toolset to create 3D experiences powered by gen AI

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