All Outputs (6)

Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects (2024)
Book

Today’s visual culture is full of hybrid images where live-action cinematography and computer-animation combine to create a single coherent image. Tackling digital effects such as colourisation and time ramping, compositing and photo-realistic render... Read More about Hybrid Images and the Vanishing Point of Digital Visual Effects.

Game engines: Optimising VFX, reshaping visual media (2024)
Journal Article

Game engines have emerged as a significant site of convergence for several visual media pipelines, from XR to animation and In-Camera VFX (ICVFX). However, they are a computational medium – the images they produce are the derivative by-products of th... Read More about Game engines: Optimising VFX, reshaping visual media.

The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis (2024)
Book Chapter

The chapter analyses the emergent practice of virtual production and the generation of in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), a process currently dominated by Unreal Engine. It argues that the software functionality of Unreal Engine and the logistics of v... Read More about The spatial languages of virtual production: Critiquing softwarization with aesthetic analysis.

Beyond the gift shop: Onscreen merchandise and modelling the consumer-spectator (2023)
Book Chapter

Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files (2023)
Book Chapter

This chapter highlights the way in which The X-Files use of digital visual effects contributes to its reflection of its cultural, social and political contexts, intersecting with the social commentary present in the aesthetics of Monsters of the Week... Read More about Believe the lie: Digital visual effects in the X-Files.

VR and Biography (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

eXtending Reality: Immersive Design, Production and Technology
University of Portsmouth – Monday 11th September 2023

Abstract – Tom Livingstone and Mandy Rose – 24/05/23

VR and Biography:

This paper will explore the adaptability of new tech... Read More about VR and Biography.