INTiMATE - Intelligent Media Animation for Transmedia Experiences

INTiMATE - 跨媒体体验的智能媒体动画

• 批准号: 720619
• 金额: $ 24.76万
• 依托单位: IKINEMA LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: GRD Development of Prototype
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=720619
• 关键词: INTiMATE; Intelligent; Media; Animation; Transmedia

INTiMATE is a proposal from IKinema to Innovate UK for a two-year Smart Development ofPrototype project to research and develop algorithms and intelligent software technologies forcombining live actors and CGI for films, games, live experiences and transmedia productions.The proposal responds to demands from studios and VFX companies for ways of seamlesslycombining live actors and virtual characters that can interact realistically, in real time.INTiMATE will develop real-time tools for combining animated objects and real actors invirtual environments, transferring behaviour from actors in the capture studio to avatars in thevirtual world automatically, realistically and without artefacts.INTiMATE builds on IKinema’s IP for inverse mapping highly articulated and multiconstraintchains, with robustness to numerical singularities. The project will develop realtimemethods for transferring the motion of actors to quadrupeds or mythical creatures andmake it possible for pre-stored CGI animation clips to be played along with real actors, andadapted to their performances in the virtual world. The outcome will be demonstrated asprototypes of real-time software technologies, for license to studios and software developersin the film, games and transmedia sectors. The results will greatly improve the efficiency ofhigh-end production, with considerably reduced time and cost. The motion enhancement andanimation blending technologies will have spillover applications in training, engineering andsports.

INTiMATE 是 IKinema 向 Innovate UK 提出的一项为期两年的智能原型开发项目的提案，旨在研究和开发算法和智能软件技术，将真人演员与 CGI 结合起来，用于电影、游戏、现场体验和跨媒体制作。该提案响应了工作室和 VFX 公司对无缝结合真人演员和可实时互动的虚拟角色的需求。INTiMATE 将开发 用于在虚拟环境中组合动画对象和真实演员的实时工具，自动、真实且无人工地将捕捉工作室中的演员的行为转移到虚拟世界中的化身。INTiMATE 基于 IKinema 的 IP 构建，用于逆映射高度铰接和多约束链，并对数值奇点具有鲁棒性。该项目将开发实时方法，将演员的动作转移到四足动物或神话生物上，并使预先存储的 CGI 动画片段与真实演员一起播放，并适应他们在虚拟世界中的表演。其成果将作为实时软件技术的原型进行展示，并授权给电影、游戏和跨媒体领域的工作室和软件开发商。结果将大大提高高端生产的效率，同时大大减少时间和成本。运动增强和动画混合技术将在训练、工程和体育领域产生溢出应用。