Animate In Virtual Reality with Disney's PoseVR

Saw this article on Cartoon Brew; worth passing along. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disneys-posevr-is-a-mind-blowing-tool-that-lets-you-animate-in-vr-166721.html

Slamdance DIG - A Showcase of Interactive Art

https://showcase.slamdance.com/DIG

Hello Blog, health and finance issues kept me away for awhile. But I was able to make it downtown Friday for the Slamdance Digital Interactive Game seminar at the L.A. Artist collective in St. Vincent Court. The subject of the discussion was about how information and storytelling are coming together into a new art form. Guest speakers included Chadwick Turner from Tailspin, Bryan Davis, founder of Lost Spirits distillery, Ray Mosco "VR Evangelist and Artist/Animator Sasha Samochina from NASA's "The Studio" at JPL. The host was Dekker Dreyer.

Forgot to mention how Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality will become more and more commonplace. Will update this article asap.

E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018 - Digital Village 90.7 KPFK

 Ric and Doran discuss high tech topics on their radio show, Digital Village. They also have Britney from Game Talk Live give a review of the E3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018.

Topics include:

The end of Net Neutrality

Tesla

AT&T/TimeWarner Merger

Uber pedestrian fatality
More female players, animators and game characters

With apologies, you have to search for Digital Village's latest show on KPFK's audio archive page.

https://archive.kpfk.org/index.php

https://www.e3expo.com/

Fortnite is reported to be the big game right now from Epic Games.

https://www.epicgames.com/fortnite/en-US/buy-now/standard

L.A. ACM SIGGRAPH - An Evening at the Technicolor Experience Center

 As an animation artist originally from the traditional pencil and paper world, I felt like I was in a classic James Bond movie when I visited the Technicolor Experience Center in Los Angeles. This was back on Tuesday May 8th, 2018


I must admit, VR headsets I've tried a few years ago gave me headaches and eyestrain, not to mention motion sickness. But the headsets at Technicolor seemed to agree with me, and the motion simulation chair worked in a very smooth, but dynamic way. The sensation of flying was pretty convincing. I was placed in the Alien: Covenant in Utero, a virtual reality experience. Not for the squeamish.

http://tec.technicolor.com/projects/alien-covenant-utero

It looks like VR games can be downloaded same as  downloading a movie, or any other video game. For Oculus, Vive and Stlan? Playstation? I'll try to clarify and update this ASAP.

Digitally insert an actor into a scene when their schedule prevents them from being filmed during a production.

VR stage for filming and tracking at Tecnincolor. The camera rig transmits its angle and position to Technicolor's tracking system. This can be matched up with the original camera's motion data.

Augmented Reality: objects from a video can appear to be in the room with you, if you have the AR app on your phone or tablet.

The reason is jobs, jobs, jobs! This is where the future is. Will update, correct and try to flesh out more details on this post soon.

Many thanks to L.A. ACM SIGGRAPH, and the staff at the Technicolor Experience Center!

http://tec.technicolor.com/about

 http://la.siggraph.org/events/title/evening-technicolor-experience-center

http://la.siggraph.org/

Technicolor Experience Center
3237 South La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016

(323) 648-3619

VR: Game Changer. Virtual Reality on NPR

Can VR be used for more than just blasting bad guys? Joshua Johnson hosts the show "1A" where he interviews Stamford professor Jeremy Bailenson, and discusses his new book "Experience on Demand". Tune in and find out!

https://www.scpr.org/programs/1A/2018/05/07/59796/

ASIFA-Hollywood’s General Membership Meeting - Animation Educators Forum 2018

Here's video that was live-streamed concerning the future of animation jobs in games, VR and new media. http://www.asifa-hollywood.org/animation-educators-forum-general-membership-meeting-will-take-place-may-5-2018/