February 7, 2024 -- Virtual Only
Wild Capture is excited to announce that CEO Will Driscoll will be a featured speaker at the inaugural HAND (Human & Digital) webinar, “Challenges and Opportunities in AI Talent Utilization.” The virtual-only event, set for February 7, 2024, will bring together industry experts from media, entertainment, performing arts, and sports to discuss the ethical and legal dimensions of AI's impact on talent. The event is moderated by Will Kreth, HAND CEO, and Muki Kulhan, Innovation Co-Lead at IBC Accelerators.
Driscoll will be speaking on the first of three panels titled “The State of AI Talent Utilization.” The session aims to explore the current landscape and future outlook of actual and virtual talent in film, TV, sports, gaming, and beyond.
During the session, Driscoll will highlight Wild Capture's digital human technologies and services and its commitment to talent identification and digital rights management, including:
- A breakdown of the different types of AI used in production and their respective purposes.
- Dispelling misconceptions between performance capture of humans for use in virtual spaces versus AI-generated digital humans.
- Wild Capture’s efforts in developing best practices for assigning performer/talent with an interoperable, persistent ID at the time of capture — similar in nature to a global barcode — based on standards and protocols managed by the registration authority of the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Foundation.
The event follows Wild Capture’s strategic partnership with HAND, announced in November 2023, the first global B2B Talent ID registry. The collaboration aims to enhance efficient discoverability, royalty collection, and revenue tracking of notable real and virtual humans, with Wild Capture implementing a digital rights solution for volumetric video performance capture within its powerful Digital Human Platform.
Driscoll has a rich background in volumetric video production and is a leading figure in digital human technology. Throughout his career, he has worked in both technical and creative roles and has made significant contributions to the industry, including as a technical director at Intel Studios | Sports, for which he was awarded the Lumiere Award for his work on ‘Enter the Tomb: Tutankhamun.’
HAND Webinar: “Challenges and Opportunities in AI Talent Utilization”
- Date: February 7, 2024 – 9:00 am – 10:30 am (Pacific)
- Session: “The State of AI Talent Utilization.”
- Register: The HAND webinar is free-of-charge. Additional event and registration info is available here.
About HAND (Human & Digital)
HAND (Human & Digital) is an interoperable Talent ID registry (in beta) working with Sony Pictures Entertainment, AFI (the American Film Institute), Wild Capture, and more to provide essential provenance automation by uniquely identifying notable legal-entity Humans, connected Virtual Humans, and Fictional Characters across entertainment and sports.
About Wild Capture
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Wild Capture is a developer of digital human technologies leading the way for volumetric capture stages and creatives to produce high-quality digital humans. In early 2022, Wild Capture introduced its next-generation Digital Human Platform, a cloud-based, volumetric video suite of products to enable the capture and use of human performances that seamlessly integrate into 3D production pipelines for unmatched accuracy and realism.
MUAHS Awards Unveils New Award Category For Theatrical Productions
The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists Guild (MUAHS) IATSE Local 706 will debut the highly anticipated new award category, Broadway International, to their awards ceremony on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, presented by Giovanni Eco Chic Beauty. The new category will expand the recognition of outstanding Make-Up and Hair Styling Artists to encompass all live theater productions, including Broadway International live productions. With the addition of Broadway International, the ceremony will now shine a spotlight on beloved theatrical productions from around the world, recognizing the hard work and creativity of Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists in this genre. The MUAHS Guild Awards also honor Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists in motion pictures, television, commercials, and music videos in 23 categories. “We are so pleased to announce the addition of the Broadway and International Live Theater Production category. The MUAHS Guild Awards are now all-inclusive and participation is worldwide for film, television, and theater. We are very proud to be one of the very few awards shows that recognize the extraordinary work of Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists in theater productions,” said Julie Socash, President, MUAHS, IATSE Local 706. “I couldn’t be more excited to learn of the addition of the Broadway and International Live Theater Production category to the Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild Awards. I look forward to these amazingly talented artisans from the theatrical world receiving recognition for their hard work, expertise, and dedication to their crafts,” said Angela L. Johnson, President, Make-Up and Hair Stylists, IATSE Local 798. The qualifications for Outstanding Make-Up... Read More