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The Pro Formula - have a repeatable method
December 25, 2025The Big Red Stripe channel on YouTube has come great videos for filmmakers. I was watching The EXACT System Pros Use to Revise Their Screenplays ...
AI Movie Pipeline Updates
August 15, 2025I want to create a short series on YouTube, using AI generated video. I posted previously about my planned pipeline. As I have learnt more ...
NVIDIA and OpenUSD at CES 2025
January 16, 2025NVIDIA had a number of announcements at the recent CES 2025 and the OpenUSD team at NVIDIA had a great round up of announcements relevant ...
From Beats to Shooting Scripts
September 15, 2024Film and TV production has a rich history and culture. Personally I am trying to use AI to speed up the creation of a simple ...
OpenUSD Floor Design using Adobe Illustrator and NVIDIA Omniverse
May 10, 2024SyncTwin.ai has a cool feature where you can take a PowerPoint visual and an Excel spreadsheet to assemble a factory scene in OpenUSD. Very nice! ...
An Omniverse Digital Clock
May 8, 2024How to do a Digital Clock (or other counter) inside an NVIDIA Omniverse scene? There are UI widgets, but they are painted on the viewport ...
Designing Enterprise Applications leveraging OpenUSD
April 17, 2024Omniverse have announced Omniverse Cloud, "a fully managed platform as a service offering for developing generative AI enabled OpenUSD applications." While full details are yet ...
AI Agents, Animation, and Minecraft
April 12, 2024I have been exploring using Generative AI (LLMs specifically) to assist with going from a screenplay to an animated video, learning about relevant technologies along ...
Accessing the Omniverse Message Bus from Python
April 11, 2024In this blog post I explore sending and receiving message bus events using the NVIDIA Omniverse framework in Python. I create two extensions: one to ...
3D Product Rendering in Web Pages with Omniverse Cloud
April 3, 2024Interested in high quality 3D product configurators for your ecommerce site? The Omniverse team livestream today recapped the recent GTC conference, and over half the ...
Text to Camera Shots with LLM AI
February 21, 2024A personal side project is converting textual descriptions of camera positioning (for filmmaking) to a machine readable form. Screenplays normally do not include camera directions ...
3D Video vs 3D Animated Scenes
February 16, 2024I have been exploring OpenUSD (formerly USD from Pixar) for creating computer generated animated videos. I create the characters, backgrounds, and animations as 3D models, ...
Audio2Face + Audio2Gesture - Merging the Streams with OpenUSD
February 15, 2024NVIDIA Omniverse includes a number of AI based tools, including Audio2Face and Audio2Gesture. Audio2Face takes an audio file and generates facial blend shape animations. Audio2Gesture ...
OpenUSD UsdPreviewSurface Material Portability
February 6, 2024I am interested in OpenUSD for portability of content. Instead of being tied to one rendering engine, my content can be rendered in multiple tools. ...
Animated Voiceovers
February 3, 2024Want to add a bit more "life" to your video voiceovers, but don't want to show your own face? How about using a 3D avatar, ...
CloudZeta - GitHub for 3D Assets
January 19, 2024I sometimes listen in on the Academy Software Foundation (https://www.aswf.io/) sessions. The latest Web OpenUSD online meeting had a presentation by CloudZeta, OpenUSD for 3D ...
TensorFlow.js in the browser for expression prediction
January 11, 2024In my last post I introduced the approach of using Google MediaPipe to control VRM character facial expressions. Hasn't this been done before? Yes! There ...
Getting Google MediaPipe to control VRM Characters
January 7, 2024I am working on a web based 3D animation project where you can create an animated video using 3D character models, like a cut scene ...
Generative AI for 3D Scene Backgrounds
December 14, 2023Generative AI can be great for background images in animated videos. Want a single shot walking along a path? Creating a background image can take ...
Retargeting Skeletal Animation to USD
November 13, 2023I am working on a project where I want to manipulate Skeletal Animation clips (for 3D computer animation) in JavaScript, then export to USD. Depressingly ...
OpenUSD on the Web - October '23 Musings
October 12, 2023TL;DR: In this post I explore the pros and cons of using OpenUSD directly in web applications. What is OpenUSD? "Developed by Pixar, Universal Scene ...
Options for representing Animation in OpenUSD
September 27, 2023I have been exploring NVIDIA Omniverse and the standard it is built on, OpenUSD (aka USD). It provides a number of ways to animate objects ...
Sunbeams via Fog in Omniverse
September 14, 2023I am trying to work out how to do various cinematic effects in Omniverse. This post is one step on that journey, particularly for "God ...
Making the Omniverse Hub Vision Reality
August 9, 2023At SIGGRAPH 2023, Jensen Huang (founder and CEO of NVIDIA) described Omniverse as more of a connector of tools, rather than the only tool you ...