I'll be speaking virtually on "The Full Spectrum of Virtual Production" for the San Francisco SIGGRAPH Chapter this Wednesday, 6pm Pacific Time - sign up at the link! ACM SIGGRAPH ACMSIGGRAPHSF eventbrite.com/e/the-full-spe…

Excited about the ACM SIGGRAPH #siggraph2023 Electronic Theater Retrospective Celebration which will feature guests incl Industrial Light & Magic's Dennis Muren, Alvy Ray Smith, Doug Roble, Paul Debevec, Donna Cox and Carolina Cruz-Neira. Congrats, Kalina Borkiewicz. s2023.siggraph.org/presentation/?…

A great time chatting with Corridor about photogrammetry, HDRI Lighting, and the USC ICT Light Stage facial scanning systems as seen in The Campanile Movie, Fiat Lux, The Matrix, X-Men, Spider-Man 2, Benjamin Button, Avatar, and more youtube.com/watch?v=o4H3oB…

At DigiPro 2023, we’ll present Magenta Green Screen, a new compositing technique designed to record accurate alpha channels in an LED volume and to collect ground truth training data for natural image matting algorithms. See you there and @SIGGRAPH! dmsm.github.io/magenta-green-…

A prop from Paul Debevec transformational film The Campanile — which introduces all of us to photogrammetry. He has gone on from that film to champion many forms of 3D capture and rendering, at least. Here is a NeRF render of that prop from #SIGG gallery.

A NeRf scan of the Presidential light stage by Paul Debevec and team — used to scan a 3D portrait of Barack Obama. Quickly scanned on the #SIGG show floor. The scanning pattern was three across while executing a sine wave. One more pass to reveal some occluded areas.

Very honored to receive the Research Impact Award for High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting from the CVMP Conference, and to be in such impressive company! Full list at cvmp-conference.org/2023/awards/

Looking forward to attending (and speaking at!) SIGGRAPH Asia in Sydney next week! Register at: asia.siggraph.org/2023/ ACM SIGGRAPH SIGGRAPH Asia Down Under 🇦🇺🦘

My top 5 highlights from SIGGRAPH Asia ➡️ Tokyo, Japan Sydney: ML with Rising Sun Pictures, and in-depth sessions on VFX from Paul Debevec, Wētā FX, DNEG & Industrial Light & Magic. Check out the rundown at befores & afters magazine beforesandafters.com/2023/12/17/my-… #SIGGRAPHAsia2023

Congratulations to the ten amazing films on the Academy's Visual Effects Oscar shortlist today. I am looking forward to learning more about them at our VFX "Bakeoff" event in January where we choose the five nominees. beforesandafters.com/2023/12/22/her… The Academy #oscars2024

Want to recreate the virtual cinematography from 1997's The Campanile Movie with modern radiance field techniques like NeRF's or 3D Gaussian Splats? New drone imagery and the original camera path are at: github.com/jingweim/campa… #GaussianSplatting #NeRF

Congratulations to these nominees for Visual Effects! #Oscars

Check out this year's The Academy Scientific and Technical Awards, hosted by Natasha Lyonne. Brilliant technology, fun speeches, and awesome honorees. Congratulations to them and all who made this special evening happen youtube.com/watch?v=nn-BGM…

Saturday eve at LA's Academy Museum: The VFX Oscar nominees! Discussion with the sups and BTS reels from The Creator, Godzilla Minus One, Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, and Napoleon. $10 tix at: academymuseum.org/en/programs/se… #Oscars2024 #VFX

Introducing, the Paul Debevec long read, at befores & afters magazine. I'm sure many people know Paul Debevec's incredible influence on VFX. At SIGGRAPH Asia ➡️ Tokyo, Japan I got the chance to sit down with him to discuss a discreet portion of his work at Google & at Netflix. beforesandafters.com/2024/04/04/the…

Great working with Corridor to bring the legendary Sodium Vapor Matting process back to life in their latest video. It really is a better way to pull mattes for visual effects compositing than greenscreen. #visualeffects #virtualproduction youtube.com/watch?v=UQuIVs…

Thx Dr. Paul Debevec Paul Debevec, Chief Research Officer, Eyeline Studios - powered by Netflix; Research Professor, USC Viterbi School; Associate Director of Graphics Research, ICT!  - When We 3D Scanned President Barack Obama at the White House Archived ---- > ict.usc.edu/news/essays/wh… #ICT25

Sad to hear of the passing of Jon Landau, storied producer of True Lies, Titanic, and Avatar, uniquely skilled and accomplished at bringing ambitious and amazing visions to the screen and to audiences worldwide hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-n…

New on the fxguide podcast: Cathedrals, Ruins & Presidents – Places and Faces with Paul Debevec fxguide.com/fxpodcasts/fxp… via the fxguide crew

It's been 25 years since Paul Debevec Paul Debevec dropped this and to this day I haven't seen a better demo.