Talks
Capture and Display
Sunday, 10 August 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM | Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Rooms 211-214 Session Chair: Evan Hirsch, Engine Company 4
Capturing the Infinite Universe in "Lucy" - Fractal Rendering in Film Production
"Lucy", starring Scarlett Johannson, directed by Luc Besson, required a shot of many fractals interacting with various interactions and simulations. Although existing fractal renderers are powerful, they have limitations for use in production. This talk proposes a novel approach to rendering fractals using existing production-proven renderers.
Alex Kim
Industrial Light & Magic
Daniel Ferreira
Industrial Light & Magic
Creating a Life-Sized Automultiscopic Morgan Spurlock for CNN’s “Inside Man”
This new system for capturing and rendering life-size 3D human subjects on an automultiscopic projector array was used to create a 3D digital Morgan Spurlock featured on the CNN documentary "Inside Man".
Andrew Jones
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Jonas Unger
Linköpings universitet
Koki Nagano
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Jay Busch
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Xueming Yu
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Hsuan-Yueh Peng
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Oleg Alexander
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Paul Debevec
USC Institute for Creative Technologies
Premo: A Natural-Interaction Animation Platform
[40 minute talk]
Overview of the Premo animation platform used on "How to Train Your Dragon 2". This platform is comprised of an animation tool, character technologies, and a high-performance multithreaded dependency graph (Libee). Premo offers a state-of-the-art animator experience that features a natural interface for 3D animation.
Matthew Gong
DreamWorks Animation
Fredrik Nilsson
DreamWorks Animation
Alex Powell
DreamWorks Animation
Jason Reisig
DreamWorks Animation
Alex Wells
Intel Corporation
Stuart Bryson
DreamWorks Animation
Esteban Papp
Globant
Paul DiLorenzo
DreamWorks Animation