DREAMSPACE
The EU funded project DREAMSPACE will research, develop and demonstrate tools that enable creative professionals to combine live performances, video and computer-generated imagery in real time and collaborate to create imaginative entertainment and experiences.
The film and TV industry is seeking ways of producing audiovisual media that combine the real world, CGI and 3D animation in real time at a quality sufficient for major movies, but at a cost that is accessible to European film and TV companies. Meeting the demand will need advances on the state of the art in a wide range of areas, including the combination of 2D and 3D methods, depth and lighting capture, omni-directional video, real-time depth-based processing and compositing, real-time high quality rendering and new approaches to manipulating CG objects and video in a virtual environment. The ability to assemble, try out, play with and even improvise virtual productions will have profound creative consequences for the media industry, performance groups and individual artists
The Digital Production article gives an in-depth overview of the DREAMSPACE project in German language.
VPET - Virtual Production Editing Tools
We are developing a holistic approach for collaborative tools that allow real-time on-set light, asset and animation editing via an intuitive interface. VPET is a tablet based onset editing application to work within a virtual production environment. It is designed to run on mobile and head mounted devices allowing easy access to operators without dedicated training. It provides functionality to edit assets during a virtual shooting and synchronize changes with the film pipeline. VPET communicates through a network interface to main applications and other clients, allowing live editing of object, light and animation parameters. The development is open-source and particularly considers established (offline) film pipelines.
Client available at App Store, project files and code at Github:
VPET Publications and Presentations
- Jonas Trottnow, Simon Spielmann, David Moreno, Javi Agenjo
Approaching real-time Character Animation in Virtual Productions
CVMP 2019, Short Paper. December 17-18, 2019. BFI Southbank, London, UK. - Simon Spielmann, Volker Helzle
Augmented Reality for Virtual Set Extension
SIGGRAPH 2018, Talks. In Session: Augmenting Your Reality. August 12, 2018. 2:00-3:30pm, Room 301-305, West Building, Vancouver Convention Centre. - Simon Spielmann, Volker Helzle, Andreas Schuster, Jonas Trottnow, Kai Götz, Patricia Rohr
VPET - Virtual Production Editing Tools
SIGGRAPH 2018 Emerging Technologies. August 12-16, 2018. West Building, Exhibit Hall A, Vancouver Convention Centre. - Volker Helzle, Simon Spielmann
Next Level Consumer Devices for Virtual Production
CVMP 2017, Demo VPET, supporting Apple ARKit & Poster Presentation. December 11-12, 2017. BFI Southbank, London, UK. - O. Grau, V. Helzle, E. Joris, T. Knop, B. Michoud, P. Slusallek, P. Bekaert, J. Starck
Dreamspace: A platform and tools for collaborative virtual production
SMPTE Mot. Imag. J., August 2017. - Simon Spielmann, Andreas Schuster, Kai Götz, Volker Helzle
VPET – A Toolset for Collaborative Virtual Filmmaking
SA '16 Technical Briefs. December 5-8, 2016. Macao. - Oliver Grau, Volker Helzle, Eric Joris, Thomas Knop, Brice Michoud, Philipp Slusallek, Philippe Bekaert, Jonathan Starck
Dreamspace: A platform and tools for collaborative virtual production
IBC 2016 Conference, page 31. - Volker Helzle
Dreamspace am Animationsinstitut
In Digital Production 3/16 - Magazin für Digitale Medienproduktion. April 2016. pp. 108-113. - Jonas Trottnow, Kai Götz, Stefan Seibert, Simon Spielmann, Volker Helzle, Farshad Einabadi, Clemens K. H. Sielaff, Oliver Grau
Intuitive Virtual Production Tools for Set and Light Editing
CVMP 2015.
