Skywriters

Project ‘Skywriters’ is a Filmakademie documentary film about a family business for sky advertisement. In addition to the real filmed footage the team approached the Institute of Animation at Filmakademie for additional computer generated shots. This collaboration allowed the evaluation of the current status of the Dreamspace Live View system integration in combination with ncam real-time camera tracking and the VPET tools. The ncam system was mounted to a virtual camera displaying its views on a 9’’ screen and simultaneously on a large beamer. The director had no previous experience with virtual production technology. After a short introduction, he was able to direct digital assets and animation using a VPET tablet in agreement with the director of photography to design the shots. Time consuming scene preparations and manual animation data alignment were existing limitations at this point of system integration in December 2015. The setup was evaluated as very intuitive and with a high potential to increase creativity.