New production tools for the planning and the on-set visualization of virtual and real scenes
O. Grau, R. Koch, F. Lavagetto, M. Milne, E. Murphy, M. Price, O. Razzoli, A. Sarti, L. Spallarossa, S. Tubaro, J. Woetzel,
Research and Development British Broadcasting Corporation, RD White Paper WHP 073,
Originally published in Conference Publication of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2003), Amsterdam, Sept. 2003
Abstract
ORIGAMI is an EU-funded project with the goal of developing advanced tools and new production techniques for high-quality mixing of real and virtual content for film and TV productions.
In particular, the project focuses on pre-production tools for set creation through image-based 3D modelling of environments and objects.
One key goal of the project is to achieve real-time in-studio previsualization of the virtual elements (objects and actors) of the extended set.
In this paper we illustrate the studio pre-visualization system that has been developed for the project,
and we describe its usage within a high-end film and TV production environment.
We also give an overview of the developed solutions for the automatic generation of 3D models of environment and objects.
This document was originally published in the Conference Publication of the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC 2003) Amsterdam 11th-15th September 2003.
Jan Woetzel
(jw@mip.informatik.uni-kiel.de)