- 11/01/21 Making of Sunflower
Find out more about the Experimental Production Sunflower - 18:00 14/12/20 - 19:30 14/12/20 FMX Spotlight 2020
SAUCE will be showcased at FMX 2020 - 02/06/20 VPET: Supporting Virtualisation in Covid-19 Pandemic Era
Filmkadamie´s Animationsinstitut releases extended Toolset for Virtual Production - 19/03/20 DNEG Transform crowd assets
An update from DNEG on how they are transforming their crowd assets - 25/02/20 Creative Commons Assets Released
VES nominated Filmakadamie Production "Love & 50 Megatons" assets released under creative commons - 24/01/20 Semantic Crowd Re-purposing at TCD
Find out more about Semantic Animations at TCD - 19/08/19 Ikinema Semantic Animation Workshop
Event: IKinema organise Semantic Animation Workshop with UPF, TCD and FA - 25/06/19 Tech Talks Presentation
Video: Watch the Tech talks presentation given by Filmakademie covering our work on Light Fields and Semantic Animations - 16/05/19 STC Research Seminars
TCD Present two seminars on AR and VR - 25/04/19 UPF's Behaviour Tree Graph
Video: UPF web tool showcasing how virtual character skeletons are behaving around a virtual scene - 19/03/19 IKinema: Next Generation Technology
Video: IKINEMA Style Shapes and In-game Retargeting - 25/02/19 Human Motion Classification
Publication: Using LSTM for Automatic Classification of Human Motion Capture Data - 17/01/19 IKINEMA Styleshapes
Video: StyleShapes – the new “blend-shapes” for body animation - 02/07/18 SAUCE on Foundry Website
In the news: The article gives a project overview to Foundry followers - 10/03/18 Filmakademie Press Release
In the news: SAUCE Project on the Filmakademie website
Technology: Semantic Animation and Crowds
Semantic Animation describes using high level descriptors (such as verbal commands) to direct the performances of special character assets which are capable of determining their own detailed low-level behaviours and scene interactions. The required semantic information can be created in a manual authoring process or by machine learning. It includes our work in both virtual production and physically based animation.
Objectives
- To develop and demonstrate real-time control systems for authoring animated content using smart assets, automatically synthesising new scenes from existing ones and integrating smart assets into virtual production scenarios with editable cameras and lights
- To research and develop a framework and tools for the automatic transformation and adaptation of smart assets to new contexts, purposes, users and environments, and for the synthesis of new smart assets from existing one.
- To test the prototype technologies and tool-kits in a series of experimental productions and evaluate their performance in realistic contexts of professional use.
Want more information?
Head to the Semantic Animation and Crowd Docs page for our internal documentation
More information can also be found in our list of Papers
Head to the Downloads page for the mocap shoot developed by UPF and Filmakademie and VPET toolset, developed by Filmakademie
Experimental Production
Sunflower
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