With more and more viewers tuning in to international television shows and movies on streaming,Israeli based company Adapt Entertainment has found a way for the programming to speak to everyone — literally.
The company’s founder, Darryl Marks, says fans often complain about how poorly a show or film is dubbed. Adapt’s technology combines AI and visual effects to seamlessly convert movie dialogue into English and other languages.
Most recently, the tech was used for the English transfer of Maciej Barczewski’s film “The Champion” — about a prizefighter who must win his matches to survive in Auschwitz — set for a U.S. release later this
year. Barczewski calls the technology a “game changer.” The original movie is in Polish and German; the director wanted to film in English but didn’t have the budget to do so.
Mike Seymour, the film’s VFX supervisor and Adapt’s technical adviser,...
The company’s founder, Darryl Marks, says fans often complain about how poorly a show or film is dubbed. Adapt’s technology combines AI and visual effects to seamlessly convert movie dialogue into English and other languages.
Most recently, the tech was used for the English transfer of Maciej Barczewski’s film “The Champion” — about a prizefighter who must win his matches to survive in Auschwitz — set for a U.S. release later this
year. Barczewski calls the technology a “game changer.” The original movie is in Polish and German; the director wanted to film in English but didn’t have the budget to do so.
Mike Seymour, the film’s VFX supervisor and Adapt’s technical adviser,...
- 8/26/2022
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In a new video for Wired, host Mike Seymour breaks down how the team at Industrial Light & Magic created the breathtaking visual effects in Jordan Vogt-Roberts' Kong: Skull Island. I wasn't a fan of this film's script, but the VFX are undeniably impressive, so this is a cool look behind the scenes even for people who didn't love the movie. I especially liked the segment in which the video talks about how actor Toby Kebbell was acting opposite himself (he played a human character and also provided the motion and facial capture for Kong in the film). Take a look: ...
- 3/27/2017
- by Ben Pearson
- GeekTyrant
Kong: Skull Island was a visual marvel, its aesthetic magnificence helping to distract from its uneven tone, lack of clear protagonist, and complete trivialization of ostensible stars Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson. There might be no greater, more iconic shot this year than the first glimpses we get of King Kong cast in the glare of a hazy sun.
A new video from Wired works to provide some insight into the process behind the film’s visual effects, with host Mike Seymour pinpointing a few specific scenes that provided unique challenges.
What’s especially interesting is that the noted scenes, which include Kong’s consumption of a giant squid and the appearance of a massive, seaweed-soaked water buffalo, were essentially a means of world-building rather than any kind of centerpiece action sequence.
The squid scene, for example, encompassed everything from flesh and water sims to facial animation and “complex fur...
A new video from Wired works to provide some insight into the process behind the film’s visual effects, with host Mike Seymour pinpointing a few specific scenes that provided unique challenges.
What’s especially interesting is that the noted scenes, which include Kong’s consumption of a giant squid and the appearance of a massive, seaweed-soaked water buffalo, were essentially a means of world-building rather than any kind of centerpiece action sequence.
The squid scene, for example, encompassed everything from flesh and water sims to facial animation and “complex fur...
- 3/27/2017
- by Randall Colburn
- avclub.com
A few months ago Hot Topic released an exclusive Funko Pop Vinyl line that suggested a grey Hulk would be showing up in Avengers: Age of Ultron. The exclusive toy line called it the "Savage Hulk" and when the photo was released, we speculated on the Hulk.s skin pigmentation and why it would happen. Turns out that we guessed correctly, except that ultimately, Avengers 2 decided to keep him green to appease fans. But, in actuality the Grey Hulk was supposed to appear during the Hulkbuster sequence. Exploring the visual effects that went into Age of Ultron, Wired discovered that The Hulk was supposed to turn grey. In chatting with the Industrial Light & Magic (Ilm) team that worked on the film, particularly the visual effects of the Hulk, Mike Seymour discovered the film.s original intentions of changing colors (some minor spoilers ahead for those who have not seen Avengers:...
- 5/2/2015
- cinemablend.com
Mike Seymour of Wired, narrates this new The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies video showcasing the digital effects that Weta's artists constructed for the Lonely Mountain battle sequences, and the Laketown attack by Smaug. Weta Workshop's video reveals the behind-the-scenes work that went into designing the costumes for The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies as well as the concept art they used as blueprints for the costume designs. From Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson comes “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” the third in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien. “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” brings to an epic conclusion the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield and the Company of Dwarves. Having reclaimed their homeland from the Dragon Smaug, the Company has unwittingly unleashed a deadly force into the world. Enraged,...
- 1/19/2015
- ComicBookMovie.com
"Industrial Light & Magic was tasked with updating the helicarriers in the new film Captain America: The Winter Soldier. FXguide's Mike Seymour talks to the visual effects company to find out what new details were added to the S.H.I.E.L.D. aircrafts, and how the effects team created a digital modeling environment for the epic helicarrier crash scene." - Wired After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel's "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn.
- 4/5/2014
- ComicBookMovie.com
As mentioned days ago, at least ten visual effects companies are credited for their work on the anticipated assembly of Marvel's The Avengers. And now Mike Seymour of fxguide has assembled a rundown on all the vfx studios - Ilm, Weta Digital, Hydraulx, Fuel VFX, Evil Eye Pictures, Luma Pictures, Trixter, Whiskytree, Digital Domain, The Third Floor and more - and their specific contributions to the movie. Highlighting key sequences, check out excerpts from the full-length rundown (link below) in addition to new still photos. The Hulk Labeling the "puny god" scene between Loki and Hulk a hybrid shot, where the Goliath slams the mischief-maker around Tony Stark's pad, Ilm’s vfx supervisor Jeff White says it blended captured face & body animation with key frame animation. Dotting particularly on the dialogue lip sync for the Hulk's "puny god" line, White says, "He has some interesting mouth shapes there,...
- 5/7/2012
- ComicBookMovie.com
Red is back with the Epic. Due to the ambitious nature of the camera, compounded by the Japanese tsunami, delays were had, but that’s only added to the anticipation. Daniel Graetz gives the Epic a 360 degree analysis.
Back in late 2009, the Red Digital Cinema Company unveiled plans for Epic, the successor to its revolutionary Red One Digital Cinema Camera. In the last few months a small number of handmade Epic bodies have been released to early adopters as well as feature film productions such as Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, and a rumoured 50+ units to James Cameron for a possible Avatar follow-up.
We were fortunate enough to receive one of the first units in Queensland and I can honestly say the wait has been more than worth it. Red has managed to reduce the camera size by more than 50 per cent, while delivering increased resolution and higher frame rates.
Back in late 2009, the Red Digital Cinema Company unveiled plans for Epic, the successor to its revolutionary Red One Digital Cinema Camera. In the last few months a small number of handmade Epic bodies have been released to early adopters as well as feature film productions such as Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, and a rumoured 50+ units to James Cameron for a possible Avatar follow-up.
We were fortunate enough to receive one of the first units in Queensland and I can honestly say the wait has been more than worth it. Red has managed to reduce the camera size by more than 50 per cent, while delivering increased resolution and higher frame rates.
- 9/12/2011
- by Colin Delaney
- Encore Magazine
NPR: Terry Gross spends 37 minutes of “Fresh Air” discussing “Toy Story 3” (which will be released on DVD on November 2), much of it with the film’s director Lee Unkrich, who has worked at Pixar since 1994, and screenwriter Michael Arndt, who won the best original screenplay Oscar for “Little Miss Sunshine” (2006). “We wanted to treat this third film like the completion of a saga, as if we had been telling one grand story of the course of the three films,” Unkrich tells her, so “it was vital to have Andy grown up and be at that transition where the toys were no longer being needed or wanted or loved.”
Deadline Hollywood: Pete Hammond writes up what many of us have been hearing off-the-record for weeks and what Scott indicated on his most recent projections chart — namely, that the ailing Michael Douglas, who won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal...
Deadline Hollywood: Pete Hammond writes up what many of us have been hearing off-the-record for weeks and what Scott indicated on his most recent projections chart — namely, that the ailing Michael Douglas, who won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal...
- 10/20/2010
- by Scott Feinberg
- Scott Feinberg
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