GDCOMM 2009 ShowBlog

Various research at the The University of Southern California Institute for Creative Technologies

3d displays: heres the science bit.. (link)



At the Graphics lab..
Our award-winning innovations in rendering skin, creating photorealistic faces and lighting digital scenes enable virtual worlds and characters to look more real and convincing. Our technology helped create realistic lighting for computer graphics characters in films including Superman Returns and Spiderman 2 and 3. Relighting Human Locomotion presents the first results of a virtual cinematography system to film an actor's performance and then change their lighting and camera viewpoint in postproduction for photoreal compositing. The central device is Light Stage 6, a 26-foot sphere with over six thousand time-multiplexed LED lights.

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