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SpLit: interactive light dialing as creative vehicle

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Orde Stevanoski,

Larry GritzAuthors Info & Claims

DigiPro '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Digital Production Symposium

Article No.: 10, Pages 1 - 7

https://doi.org/10.1145/3329715.3338885

Published: 27 July 2019 Publication History

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In this talk we present SpLit, a lighting manipulation tool created at Sony Pictures Imageworks designed to encourage experimentation and creativity when creating and manipulating CG lighting via a novel and artist friendly visual interface. We discovered that artists are often discouraged from experimenting and making sweeping lighting changes due to the complexity of the currently available user interfaces for CG lighting.

Manipulating, rendering and evaluating the decisions is a cyclical process that requires multiple clicks through various UI elements, and the rendering takes time to resolve to a point where the results of the changes can be evaluated.

With SpLit we focused on tightening the manipulation and decision-making loop and bringing it into the realm of realtime to encourage experimentation and creative freedom.

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SpLit: interactive light dialing as creative vehicle
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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DigiPro '19: Proceedings of the 2019 Digital Production Symposium

July 2019

52 pages

ISBN:9781450367998

DOI:10.1145/3329715

Conference Chairs:
Sandy Kao
DreamWorks Animation
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Barbara Balents
BB Consulting
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Program Chairs:
Trina Roy
Pixar Animation Studios
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Rachel Rose
Industrial Light & Magic

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