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    ICG to delve into “The Mandalorian”

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    The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) and ICG Magazine will be taking their fourth “Deep Dive” in a webinar on December 21 at 2 PM (PT). This time they will be visiting with the creative team behind the multiple Emmy®-winning Disney+ series The Mandalorian, the first live action Star Wars TV series.
     
    The team established a revolutionary workflow in Season 1 that included volumetric capture, large-screen LED walls, game engine technology, virtual-camera based previsualization, and the closest integration of on-set capture and visual effects ever attempted. Season 2 of The Mandalorian built upon these innovations, establishing creator Jon Favreau’s ambitious vision as the bellwether for all future visual effects-based productions.
     
    Panelists will include Local 600 DP Baz Idoine, Local 600 DP Matthew Jensen, ASC, Local 600 DP David Klein, ASC, ILM VFX supervisor Richard Bluff and director Bryce Dallas Howard (chapters 4, 11.) ICG Magazine’s executive editor David Geffner will moderate the conversation.
     
    In Season 1 The Mandalorian received 15 Emmy® nominations, winning seven, including Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series, Special Visual Effects and Production Design for a Narrative Program.
     
    Local 600/ICG Magazine “Deep Dive” panels explore the blend of creative collaboration, artistry, and technology that DPs and their camera teams employ to realize the vision behind today’s challenging forms of productions. 

    Upcoming panels will explore the challenge of going from stage to screen with Amazon Studios’ One Night in Miami, creating an ocean-based period action epic–on stage–with Apple TV+’s Greyhound, and a conversation with the 2020 Oscar-nominated DPs.
     
    To register for the “Deep Dive” into The Mandalorian, click here.

     

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    Ex-OpenAI engineer who raised legal concerns about the technology he helped build has died

    Saturday, December 21, 2024
    Suchir Balaji poses for a photo in Hawaii in 2018. Balaji was a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who died in November 2024. (Balaji Ramamurthy via AP)

    Suchir Balaji, a former OpenAI engineer and whistleblower who helped train the artificial intelligence systems behind ChatGPT and later said he believed those practices violated copyright law, has died, according to his parents and San Francisco officials. He was 26.

    Balaji worked at OpenAI for nearly four years before quitting in August. He was well-regarded by colleagues at the San Francisco company, where a co-founder this week called him one of OpenAI's strongest contributors who was essential to developing some of its products.

    "We are devastated to learn of this incredibly sad news and our hearts go out to Suchir's loved ones during this difficult time," said a statement from OpenAI.

    Balaji was found dead in his San Francisco apartment on Nov. 26 in what police said "appeared to be a suicide. No evidence of foul play was found during the initial investigation." The city's chief medical examiner's office confirmed the manner of death to be suicide.

    His parents Poornima Ramarao and Balaji Ramamurthy said they are still seeking answers, describing their son as a "happy, smart and brave young man" who loved to hike and recently returned from a trip with friends.

    Balaji grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and first arrived at the fledgling AI research lab for a 2018 summer internship while studying computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. He returned a few years later to work at OpenAI, where one of his first projects, called WebGPT, helped pave the way for ChatGPT.

    "Suchir's contributions to this project were essential, and it wouldn't have succeeded without him," said OpenAI co-founder John Schulman in a social media post memorializing Balaji. Schulman, who recruited Balaji to his team, said what... Read More

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