“Designing Oscar: Bespoke Tablet Workflows in ILM StageCraft” by Hirschfield and Jutan
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- Designing Oscar: Bespoke Tablet Workflows in ILM StageCraft
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- Enlightening and Moving Workflows
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StageCraft, the end-to-end virtual production platform created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), is the culmination of decades of experience in the field. Advancements in real-time rendering, combined with motion tracking, have provided an opportunity for a new paradigm: on-set, in-camera visual effects (ICVFX), with a level of spontaneity and flexibility not previously possible in visual effects creation. Filmmakers can now expect near-instanteous responses to their creative direction on set. In order to support StageCraft Operators as they work to achieve a filmmaker’s on-demand vision, we developed Oscar: a suite of tablet-based user interfaces which provide intuitive access to the complexities of the underlying StageCraft technology.
References:
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[2] Stephen Hill and Jeroen (J.) Schulte. 2023. Lights, Camera, Interaction! The Real-Time Technology of ILM StageCraft. In The Digital Production Symposium (DIGIPRO ’23), August 5, 2023, Los Angeles, CA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages.
[3] Mike Jutan and Steve Ellis. 2017. Director-Centric Virtual Camera Production Tools for Rogue One. In Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2017 Talks, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2017, 2 pages.
