Emerging Tools: Looking Ahead and the Effect on the Technical-Artistic Approach
This conference presents a prospective look on different tools, practices and organisational methods that may be able to renew the artistic and technical approach of professionals to extend their possibilities of representation and/or improve productivity.
Guerilla Render
Developed for productions, Guerilla Render is a next generation renderer used for CGI and visual effects in TV series and feature films which focuses on the industry requirements: robust, efficient, simple to set up and operate, and flexible when interoperating.
Cyber Marionette
Cyber Marionette is a individualised software which creates high-quality animated characters for TV series. This tool enables users to customise the appearance and accessories of a character, as well as its gestures and facial expressions, ready for animation.
Outline of presentation:
- Demo of creating a custom character (process similar to the creation of a video game avatar)
- Steps to create a generic model and database
- Native cross platform software development workflow and issues
- Native stand alone software, plugin software, script development and trade-off issues
- Tool integration and pipeline considerations
Gleam Session
SolidAnim and Game Audio Factory work in collaboration to develop new facial motion capture techniques. Together they have created a new competitive and efficient solution, Gleam Session, dedicated to facial and audio motion capture in studio.
