Monthly Archives: January 2012

In a previous post, we had talked about motion-tracked camera controllers for shooting CG movies. The Director’s Lens system, recently presented at ACM Multimedia 2011 and at ParisFX conferences, combines such camera controllers with state-of-the-art automatic virtual camera control algorithms to provide smart assistance while shooting. More specifically, the system is able to compute, cluster and display (step 1 in the figure)  a large set of viewpoint suggestions for starting a shot. Viewpoints follow classical cinematic conventions in screen composition and … Continue reading →