A Notation Based Approach to Film Pre-vis

Author

Chakravarthy, Ajay ; Beales, Richard ; Jung, Yvonne ; Wagner, Sebastian ; Jung, Christoph ; Yannopoulous, Angelos ; Koutsoutos, Stefanos ; Schiffmann, Rolf ; Hedtke, Rolf ; Saenen, Ignace

Author_Institution

IT Innovation Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2010

fDate

17-18 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

63

Abstract

This paper describes ANSWER which is a new approach to the creative process of film production. It is based on a symbolic notation system called Director Notation (DN) through which film directors are free to express their creative intent much like a music composer uses musical notation. The notation populates a semantic model which is machine processable and this input is automatically converted into a lightweight 3D pre-vis. ANSWER is integrated with DFT BONES Dailies, so that in post-production editors can quickly synchronise and compare pre-vised and actual footage. In this paper we will describe the various software tools which have been developed as part of the ANSWER project to achieve this goal.

Keywords

art; computer animation; entertainment; graphical user interfaces; solid modelling; virtual reality; ANSWER; DFT BONES Dailies; creative process; director notation; film production; lightweight 3D pre-vis; machine processable; post production editors; semantic model; symbolic notation system; Animation; Engines; Films; Games; Graphical user interfaces; Production; Three dimensional displays; Animation; Director Notation; Film Production; Ontology; Pre-Vis; Real-time Rendering; Story Boarding;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Media Production (CVMP), 2010 Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8872-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4268-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CVMP.2010.15

Filename

5693095