This workshop will introduce you to the relatively new and fast-growing medium: Free Viewpoint Video (FVV). Focused on breadth, it will cover its pros and cons, technical workflows, trends and current research and products landscape. It also includes a hands-on part about post-processing of FVV assets in SideFX Houdini.
Whether you are interested in computer vision / graphics, holograms, multi-camera setups or just want to see a couple of Houdini tricks, make sure to take part in it!
A basic familiarity with computer vision, graphics and Houdini is recommended, but not required.
For Filmakademie, 2021
Theory
Filmakademie students: sign up with your university email, your request will be processed quickly.
After gaining access to the dataset: aka_workshop_data.zip
, you can use it with the Houdini project files, just unpack it into the folder containing the repository. Check Readme in the repository for more details.
Please let me know if you spot any mistakes, if I missed some important idea or a product, or if you have suggestions for improving this workshop!
Filmakademie Baden Württemberg, Dimension for the opportunity and support.
Mike Pelton, Charles Dupont and Marco Volino for proofreading and feedback.
Toby Hyder for the asset.