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VFX and animated movie production creation processes are exposed to constant improvement, optimization and innovation, and film schools have to reflect these developments in their education. At the current point in time, almost any visual demand can be ...

European Media and Immersion Lab, or EMIL, is a pan-European network of extended reality (XR) labs consisting of 4 European academic institutions, with a mission to accelerate development of virtual, augmented and mixed reality technologies, content, ...

Sustainability and green producing are in high demand in all sectors of creative industries. Fortunately, this topic is received very well among film students providing an excellent opportunity for upcoming talent willing to apply new methods in ...

Climate change, environmental protection and sustainability dominate media and political affairs. The demand for increased use of public transport instead of cars is obvious. Beeing – the nature inspired VR journey is intended to raise awareness of ...

Storage and retrieval of production assets is vital for every modern VFX and animation facility. From the volume of assets being stored to the constantly changing variety and richness of the asset data, efficiently storing, indexing, finding and ...

The work on intuitive Virtual Production tools at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has focused on an open platform tied to existing film creation pipelines. The Virtual Production Editing Tools (VPET) started in a former project on Virtual Production ...

We introduce an intuitive workflow where Augmented Reality can be applied on the fly to extend a real set with virtual extensions. The work on intuitive Virtual Production technology at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg has focused on an open platform tied ...

We present the production process for a series of short films featuring a digital actor with the likeness of Albert Einstein. The results are an artistic interpretation of Albert Einstein reappearing in contemporary context citing some of his famous ...

The project Stylized Animations for Research on Autism (SARA) aims to develop a better understanding of the cognitive processes behind emotional categorization in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), in ...

Over the last decades the process of filmmaking has been subject to constant virtualization. Empty green screen stages leave the entire on-set crew clueless as real props are often replaced with virtual elements in later stages of production. With the ...

Longing for Wilderness is a 360° VR-experience that takes you from the noisy city through the slowly transforming forest towards a calm and airy landscape. It seeks to express our innate longing to experience nature in its rawest forms. To achieve this, ...

We investigate the effect that stylized facial expressions have on the perception and categorization of emotions by participants with high-functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in contrast to two control samples: one with Attention-Deficit/...

This contribution describes a set of newly developed tools for virtual production. Virtual production aims to bring together the creative production aspects into one real-time environment, to overcome the bottlenecks of offline processing in digital ...

SARA is an ongoing research project that investigates in a novel and artistic way the causes for social communication and emotion recognition deficits in children and adolescents with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The novelty of our ...

The Muses of Poetry is an interactive installation that combines dynamically generated character animation, semantic analysis, natural voice interaction and affect in poetry. Motivated by the subjectivity and imaginative character of this form of art, ...

This paper presents the motivation, background and implementation of The Muses of Poetry, an interactive installation that combines dynamically generated character animation, semantic analysis, natural voice interaction and affect in poetry. Inspired by ...

Pixel accurate depth estimation of a dynamic scene, in addition to conventional recording on a film set, opens up new opportunities in modern filmmaking. Depth maps can be used for Keying, Set Reconstruction as well as for subsequent Depth Grading in ...

In this talk we present a combination of well-known and proven HCI techniques to create a markerless performance capturing system based on low-cost consumer hardware for live performances with virtual characters. The use case for our approach was a ...

The demand for realistic human characters is driven by interactive application developers worldwide. The look of 3D models in real time graphics is efficiently improved by powerful shader techniques. Today a common technique consists of a simple ...