Skywriters Virtual Production @ FMX 2016

Project ‘Skywriters’ is a 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 Baden-Württemberg for additional computer generated shots. This collaboration allowed the evaluation of the current status of the Dreamspace LiveView 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 as seen in figure 5. 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 consumptive 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. Many thanks to Julian Weiß, Vincent Ullmann, Fabian Fricke, Conrad Lobst, Nils Otte Jonas Trottnow and Stefan Seibert for supporting this work. This research has received funding from the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement no 610005 DREAMSPACE. http://research.animationsinstitut.de http://vpet.research.animationsinstit... http://dreamspaceproject.eu