Starting A Drone Photography and Video Business In The UK
14th June 2025
Simcoemedia offers aerial video and photography (see examples and an overview of the service on the Simcoemedia drone page). Whilst drones are becoming widely available and increasingly sophisticated, there are rules and regulations restricting how these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)…
AI Tutorials For Photographers, Designers And Video Producers
Simcoemedia shop has been selling 360 images, tutorials, books and t-shirts since summer 2024 proving an outlet for the graphic design, AI video experimentation, generative AI 360 image generation. Simcoemedia remains committed to the exploration, experimentation and analysis of AI…
Paloma Film Development – Storyboard Pre-Production Overview
12th April 2025
Paloma Film Development – Storyboard Pre-Production Overview
https://youtu.be/nCcFqAV80io What Is Paloma? Paloma is the 60-75 minute film of a story written by Peter Simcoe. It takes place 300 years in the future where a man living a solitary life in a post apocalyptic land finds a note…
AI And The Future Of Media Production
2nd March 2025
AI And The Future Of Media Production
The US Government has recently announced an investment of 500 billion dollars toward the development of AI technologies. Flanked by some of techs top shakers and movers including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump announced it…
Immersive Digital Media Part 2 – Examples
20th November 2024
Immersive Digital Media Part 2 – Examples
My previous post, Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions, defined the terminology associated with Extended Reality (XR) including VR, AR, MR and other technologies such as ambisonic audio. The second article in the series focuses on projects I have…
Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions
28th October 2024
Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions
I recently had a conversation with a client regarding the use of immersive digital media in engineering and design. We discussed how it can enhance research, product development and training and increase the overall impact. Over the last 8 years…
Simcoemedia Shop Featuring Books, 360 Images and T-Shirts
20th September 2024
Simcoemedia Shop Featuring Books, 360 Images and T-Shirts
Simcoemedia has recently launched a new shop at www.simcoe.co.uk/shop. This store sells downloadable digital products created by Peter Simcoe and includes books, t-shirts, tutorials, as well as a large library of 360 images. The store is an extention of Peter's…
Recording And Editing A Podcast With Adobe Podcast Studio
15th August 2024
Recording And Editing A Podcast With Adobe Podcast Studio
Adobe Podcast was originally released in January 2023 as an online application designed to enhance audio by removing background noise, balancing EQ and improving the overall sound quality of audio recordings using AI. At the time of release the system…
Introduction To Creating AI Generated Music Videos
29th July 2024
Introduction To Creating AI Generated Music Videos
Introducing AI To The Music Industry Artists and musicians are increasingly exploring AI technologies as a solution to creating promotional videos. These tools allow the user to enter a text prompt, image or video to direct the AI towards a…
Toyota Motor Manufacturing Environment Month PC Lock Screen
Designing A Lock Screen Toyota Motor Manufacturing challenged Simcoemedia to create a computer lock screen that would appear on all PCs on startup / login at their Deeside and Burnaston plants during July's 'Environment Month'. Several designs were submitted. The…
Creating AI Generated Immersive 360 Images – AI School
25th April 2024
Creating AI Generated Immersive 360 Images – AI School
AI School I've recently been exploring the use of Midjourney and Magnific.ai to create highly detailed 12K 360 images such as the example shown above (note this example has been enhanced with audio and lens flare using Pano2VR). After working…
Spatial Computing and the Apple Vision Pro
1st February 2024
Spatial Computing and the Apple Vision Pro
Apple is about to launch the Apple Vision Pro, a mixed reality headset. The most advanced consumer headset on the market. This new addition will thrust Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality back into the limelight. As consumers and…
Generative AI Video And Film Production
1st January 2024
Generative AI Video And Film Production
Introducing Generative AI Technologies During 2022 and 2023 a variety of photo and video Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies were released to a wildy enthusiastic audience of digital content creators. Examples include Midjourney and Adobe Firefly - both designed to…
Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2
10th December 2023
Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2
Google kindly gave me access to their Google Earth Studio platform a few months back. I recently used it to create a variety of videos including a 2D 360 interactive video tour of my home city of Chester in England…
What Is Gaussian Splatting?
22nd November 2023
What Is Gaussian Splatting?
What Is Gaussian Splatting? In really simple terms (and I mean really simple terms...as it's a complex computational technique), 3D Gaussian Splatting describes the processing of images taken from multiple viewpoints to create a point cloud using a technique called…
Guide To Freelancing Created With Character Animator
28th October 2023
Guide To Freelancing Created With Character Animator
Animated Freelancers Guide Adobe's Character Animator software was used to create this 14 minute animated guide to becoming a freelance practitioner in the creative industries. The video is based upon Chapter 2 of the Freelancers Handbook: A Survive and Thrive…