Monday 13 August 2018

The Meg’s giant shark is an AI-powered marvel


The worldwide box office was dominated by a 75-foot-long shark over the weekend. The Meg, a Warner Bros. film, managed to rake in over $140 million amid the global feeding frenzy. And everyone wants to know how the filmmakers managed to make the monster look so real. The answer, of course, is artificial intelligence. The eponymous meg (short for megalodon) in the movie is actually a computer-generated great white shark that’s been scaled up from about 17-feet to 75-feet-long. Bringing the monster to life was no small feat. Scanline VFX created the effects using Ziva Dynamics software and AI. It…

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https://ift.tt/2P6xj35 Tristan Greene August 13, 2018 at 12:01PM

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