Automated 3D Pre-Vis for Modern Production

Beales, Richard, Chakravarthy, Ajay, Hedtke, Rolf, Jung, Christoph, Jung, Yvonne, Koutsoutos, Stefanos and Yannopoulos, Angelos (2009) Automated 3D Pre-Vis for Modern Production. International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) 2009, Amsterdam. 09 - 14 Sep 2009. (Submitted)

Abstract

Hand-drawn storyboards have served the industry for decades and in recent years artist-created digital pre-vis animations have allowed directors, screenwriters and commissioners to ‘see’ their film long before the first scene is shot. However the nature of programme-making is changing. Digital effects, mixed-reality production and now stereoscopic 3D are becoming mainstream. Blurring the distinction between production and post-production, they bring complex planning issues that leave linear pre-vis approaches wanting. This paper describes ANSWER, a new approach to the creative process of film production based on a symbolic notation system akin to a musical score. The notation populates a machine-processable semantic model, or ontology, of the director’s creative intent, which in turn is used to automatically create lightweight 3D pre-vis animations. ANSWER is also integrated with DFT Bones Dailies, so that in post-production editors can quickly synchronise and compare pre-vised and actual footage.

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