Production Session 2: Research & Technique

Saturday, 19 December | 5:30 AM - 7:15 AM | Level 5 - Auditorium

Session Chair

Yoshinori Dobashi

Enhancing Organic Visual Effects While Simplifying Rotoscoping Techniques

This camera setup for simultaneously capturing both visible and thermal data when filming live-action scenes provides data that can be used as an efficient method of rotoscoping.

Hannes Appell 
Sebastian Schmidt 
Nicolas Palme
Institute of Animation, Visual Effects and Digital Postproduction

Identifying Salient Points

By defining important points on a shape as those that are predictive of other points, these algorithms automatically identify such points. Applications include shape representation and simplification.

J.P. Lewis 
Weta Digital

Ken Anjyo 
OLM Digital Inc.

Evaluation of the Radial Basis Function Space

The behavior of a radial basis function depends on its definition. For technical directors, the relationship between definition and behavior is not intuitive. This sketch suggests visualizations that will help TDs understand RBF.

Gene Lee
Walt Disney Animation Studios