SciTech
Digital Imaging Technology
Queue was one of the first systems that allowed for statistical analysis and process introspection, providing a framework for the efficient use of render farms.
Digital Imaging Technology
This system was the first robust, scalable, widely adopted commercial solution for queue management in the motion picture industry. Its user interface and support for multi-machine assignment influenced the design of modern day queue management tools.
Digital Imaging Technology
Mr. Ercolano's work has been influential across the industry, and has enabled scalable render farms at numerous studios.
Photography
Solving a series of problems with one integrated mechanism, this device had an immediate and significant impact on the motion picture industry.
Digital Imaging Technology
Ambient occlusion has enabled a new level of realism in synthesized imagery and has become a standard tool for computer graphics lighting in motion pictures.
Digital Imaging Technology
Developed at Industrial Light & Magic and consisting of custom hardware and software, Imocap is an innovative system that successfully addresses the need for on-set, low-impact performance capture.
Laboratory
The LUTher system was one of the first color look-up table processors to be widely adopted by the pioneering digital intermediate facilities in the industry. This innovation enabled accurate color presentation by facilities that had analyzed projected film output and built 3D look-up tables in order to emulate print film.
Laboratory
Through the use of color management software and hardware, this complete system enables accurate color presentation in the digital intermediate preview process. The Truelight system is widely utilized in digital intermediate production environments around the world.
Lenses and Filters
When attached to a film or digital production camera, this versatile aerial image device can produce a wide variety of optical effects interactively, on set and in real time without post-production image manipulation.
Digital Imaging Technology
Flowline is a flexible system that incorporates highly parallel computation, allowing rapid iteration and resulting in detailed, realistic fluid effects.
Digital Imaging Technology
This system is used to create simulations of gaseous phenomena integrated into the widely available Maya tool suite, using an unconditionally stable semi-Lagrangian solver.
Digital Imaging Technology
This system allows artists to create realistic animation of liquids and gases using novel simulation techniques for accuracy and speed, as well as a unique scripting language for working with volumetric data.
Digital Imaging Technology
RealFlow was the first widely adopted, commercially available, easy-to-use system for the simulation of realistic liquids in motion picture visual effects.
Camera Cranes
This small, portable, camera-only dolly allows low lens positions, movement in restricted places and tight offset circular maneuvers with rapid set-up.
Stage Operations
The operating characteristics of this compact, well-engineered and remote-controllable package make possible a range of safe special effects that would be totally impractical with larger, more conventional fog units.
Systems
These techniques allow quick and precisely repeatable application of 2D makeup such as tattoos, bruises and birthmarks, as well as 3D prosthetic appliances ranging in size from small wounds to entire torsos. They utilize self-adhesive material that features an unprecedented combination of tissue-thin edges, resilience, flexibility and water resistance, while requiring no dangerous solvents.
Digital Imaging Technology
A unique user interface and relatively low cost have made these tools ubiquitous in the visual effects community.
Photography
The graphical user interface of the cmotion System eases the difficult task of following focus, and the unique lens tag system recalls the calibration for each lens.
Photography
This highly modular system permits accurate and reliable wireless control with multiple hand controls of all lens functions.
Digital Imaging Technology
Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images.
Camera
Designed for handheld photography, the features of this small, lightweight MOS camera also allow it to be used as a secondary production camera.
Sound
The Brumagic MPST was designed specifically to measure density in the motion picture soundtrack and has become the densitometer of choice for reading soundtrack negative and positive densities worldwide.
Laboratory
The E-Film process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.
Laboratory
The TDI process is based on the production of digital separation negatives creating archival elements that can be scanned and digitally recombined in the future.
Digital Imaging Technology
Their 1987 paper \"Elastically Deformable Models\" was a milestone in computer graphics, introducing the concept of physically-based techniques to simulate moving, deforming objects.
Photography
This well-integrated remote system enables filmmakers to remotely pan and tilt their camera from virtually any moving vehicle, giving the opportunity for unprecedented dynamic camera angles.
Photography
The Power Pod system enables filmmakers to configure a remote controlled head to meet their own unique requirements.
Photography
This remote head not only serves the needs of the live-action filmmaker, but also provides the functionality of a motion-controlled head, allowing for sophisticated tiling and pre-visualization techniques.
Stage Operations
The Precision Stunt Airbag is designed to envelop the stunt jumper, even on off-center hits. This feature serves to enhance the safety of stunt performers in falls from up to 200 feet.
Camera Cranes
Representing a significant evolutionary improvement in camera car technology, this remotely-controlled, gyro-stabilized and flexible camera crane offers a highly stable platform for high-speed, rough terrain action shots. Its ingenious applications of sophisticated technology solve many of the problems inherent in chase vehicle filming.
Camera Cranes
The evolution of the Spydercam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.
Camera Cranes
The evolution of the Cablecam technology has made it possible to move a camera safely and accurately anywhere through a three-dimensional space.
Projection
The Cinelux Premiere Lenses incorporate an iris and aspheric elements which provide a more uniform modulation transfer function and better light transmission to the sides and corners of the theater projection screen. This reduces the traditional problems of softness in the corners, hot-spotting and varying brightness between film formats.
Digital Imaging Technology
Subdivision surfaces have become a preferred modeling primitive for many types of motion picture computer graphics.
Laboratory
This system provides a method by which filmmakers can preview real-time color corrections using actual film prints, reducing both the turnaround time and the number of reprints required.
Sound
The Cedar DNS 1000 is specifically designed to reduce background noise from recorded motion picture dialog. With its precise filters it allows the frequency ranges to be altered or even cascaded to pinpoint and reduce the offending noise.
Systems
This proprietary modified silicone makeup system allows for the creation of either partial or full-face appliances for motion picture makeup effects that move like real flesh, have translucency similar to skin and will accept standard makeup materials.
Lighting
With its large radiating surface and thin profile, this collapsible, self-contained HMI softlight provides a diffuse light to simulate daylight in location interiors, where space is often limited.
Sound
Designed in the early 1990s when digital signal processing was in its early stages, the real-time digital approach of the DNF 001 provided accurate filter response with minimal interaction, allowing noise attenuation with fewer artifacts.
Photography
As a pioneer in this area of motion picture technology, Tyler's 2-axis, hydraulically-powered camera mount successfully eliminates the pitch and roll associated with camera shots taken from a boat in the water.
Digital Imaging Technology
Motion Analysis Corporation developed special-purpose cameras for motion capture with software systems that maximized their impact on the motion picture industry.
Digital Imaging Technology
The software solution created by Giant Studios applied a unique biometric approach that has influenced the development of motion capture technology for motion pictures.
Digital Imaging Technology
\"Storm\" employs an efficient method for directly manipulating volumetric data to create effects such as clouds, water and avalanches with familiar operators inspired by image compositing and painting operations.
Digital Imaging Technology
Vicon Motion Systems developed special-purpose cameras for motion capture with software systems that maximized their impact on the motion picture industry.
Digital Imaging Technology
These groundbreaking techniques were used to create realistic-looking skin on digitally created characters.
Photography
This versatile, modular and widely accepted cine viewfinder system is capable of properly displaying images in multiple formats ranging from 35mm anamorphic to super 16.
Digital Imaging Technology
This mathematical model contributed substantially to the development and implementation of practical techniques for simulating subsurface scattering of light in translucent materials for computer-generated images in motion pictures.
Digital Imaging Technology
Mental Ray is a highly programmable computer-graphics renderer incorporating ray tracing and global illumination to realistically simulate the behavior of light in computer-generated imagery.
Digital Imaging Technology
The Deep Canvas software program captures the orginal brush strokes of the traditional background artist to render elements in three dimensions for animated films.
Digital Imaging Technology
This effective software simulation system is used to create and control natural, expressive, highly-nuanced facial animation on a wide range of computer-generated characters.