CoSTAR Screen Lab

CoSTAR屏幕实验室

• 批准号: AH/Y001044/1
• 负责人: Declan Keeney
• 金额: $ 318.48万
• 依托单位: University of Ulster
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FY001044%2F1
• 关键词: CoSTAR; Screen; Lab

The CoSTAR Screen Lab in will be a Northern Ireland based creative technology research, development and innovation facility located in Studio Ulster, a large scale virtual production studio complex at Belfast Harbour Studios. Driving the CoSTAR Screen Lab are three overarching principles: Place and Potential; EDI & Environmental Sustainability and Open Innovation. These principles will drive four converged themes addressing: Worldbuilding and Asset Creation; Performance, Performers, Interactivity and Virtual Space; Automation, Real Time Processes & Workflows; and Democratisation and Capability.The CoSTAR Screen Lab, led by Ulster University will work with five core partners in Belfast Harbour Studios, Studio Ulster Ltd, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC Northern Ireland, Humain Ltd and a range of collaborative partners including, Dell, BT, Retinize, Clear Angle Studios and DfC/ACNI to deliver world-leading programmes of R&D&I, Talent Capacity Building, Sustainability & EDI.The CoSTAR Screen Lab will operate in partnership with the CoSTAR National Lab and the other networked labs to ensure that expertise is both shared and consolidated through a process of distributed best practice while advancing the understanding of virtual production and real time processes through collaborative learning and training. The CoSTAR Screen Lab will articulate to the CoSTAR National Lab through co-designed Demonstrator challenge calls, national training initiatives and co-funded technology research projects.The CoSTAR Screen Lab will offer local companies the opportunity to apply for developmental support through challenge calls aimed at building future understandings of the virtual production and real time spaces. These calls will be co-funded by Ulster University and partners Studio Ulster Ltd., NI Screen, BBC NI and DfC, CoSTAR Screen Lab will work with all partners to deliver the over-arching and related objectives identified for the CoSTAR project, 'providing a highly capable R&D infrastructure that enables researchers, companies and institutions across the UK to access to the facilities, capabilities and insight necessary to ensure that they can conduct world class R&D in the application of current and future waves of advanced computing technologies to transform the means of production across the screen, performance and allied sectors of the Creative Industries'.While the core business of CoSTAR Screen Lab will be to undertake R&D&I leading to products which advance SME and audience engagement with virtual production, the relationship between the commercial work of Studio Ulster and the more R&D&I focused work of the CoSTAR Screen Lab facilitates the opportunity for more experimental work, delivered in an environment of informed and supported risk. Crucially, the CoSTAR Screen Lab will create opportunities to increase the visibility of virtual production and its potential but also to build the skills pipeline, policy and environmental infrastructure necessary to the long-term sustainability of the project after the funded period.Hence, the CoSTAR Screen Lab will also create targeted training programmes, accredited through the Ulster Screen Academy (USAc) at Ulster University. These training initiatives will be designed to advance the skills base in the region but also to build capacity across the CoSTAR network. Training will be developed and delivered on a partnership basis, ensuring distributed access and high standards of practice to challenge current knowledge and expectation of what is possible in the convergence of technologies in the virtual production and real time spaces.A key aspect of the work of CoSTAR Screen Lab's mission will be to drive innovation in sustainability and EDI approaches and formal Work Packages have been designed to work with key community groups to advance access for disenfranchised groups while adhering to the sustainability benchmarks created by the Albert project and BREEAM accreditation frameworks.

CoSTAR屏幕实验室将是一个北方爱尔兰的创意技术研究，开发和创新设施位于工作室阿尔斯特，一个大型虚拟生产工作室复杂的贝尔法斯特海港工作室。推动CoSTAR Screen Lab的三个首要原则是：位置和潜力; EDI和环境可持续性以及开放式创新。这些原则将推动四个融合的主题解决：世界建筑和资产创造;性能，表演者，互动和虚拟空间;自动化，真实的时间流程和工作流;以及民主化和能力。由阿尔斯特大学领导的CoSTAR屏幕实验室将与贝尔法斯特港工作室、阿尔斯特工作室有限公司、北方爱尔兰屏幕、BBC北方爱尔兰、Humain Ltd和一系列合作伙伴，包括戴尔、英国电信、Retinize、Clear Angle Studios和DfC/ACNI，提供世界领先的研发与创新、人才能力建设、可持续性& EDI。CoSTAR屏幕实验室将与CoSTAR国家实验室和其他网络实验室合作，以确保专业知识通过分布式最佳实践过程共享和整合，同时通过协作学习和培训促进对虚拟生产和真实的时间流程的理解。CoSTAR Screen Lab将通过共同设计的Demonstrator挑战电话，国家培训计划和共同资助的技术研究项目与CoSTAR国家实验室进行沟通。CoSTAR Screen Lab将为当地公司提供机会，通过挑战电话申请发展支持，旨在建立对虚拟生产和真实的时间空间的未来理解。这些电话将由阿尔斯特大学和合作伙伴工作室阿尔斯特有限公司共同资助，NI Screen、BBC NI和DfC、CoSTAR Screen Lab将与所有合作伙伴合作，实现CoSTAR项目的总体目标和相关目标，“提供一个高性能的研发基础设施，使英国各地的研究人员、公司和机构能够使用这些设施，能力和洞察力，以确保他们能够进行世界级的R&在应用当前和未来的先进计算技术浪潮来改变屏幕上的生产方式时，CoSTAR屏幕实验室的核心业务将是进行研发和生产，I导致的产品，推进中小企业和观众参与虚拟生产，工作室阿尔斯特的商业工作和更多的R&D之间的关系&I重点工作的CoSTAR屏幕实验室促进更多的实验工作的机会，在知情和支持的风险环境中交付。最重要的是，CoSTAR屏幕实验室将创造机会，提高虚拟制作的知名度及其潜力，同时建立必要的技能管道，政策和环境基础设施，以确保项目在资助期后的长期可持续性。因此，CoSTAR屏幕实验室还将创建有针对性的培训课程，通过阿尔斯特大学的阿尔斯特屏幕学院（USAc）认证。这些培训举措将旨在提高该地区的技能基础，并在整个CoSTAR网络中建立能力。将在伙伴关系的基础上制定和提供培训，确保分布式访问和高标准的实践，以挑战当前的知识和期望，在虚拟生产和真实的时间空间的技术融合是可能的。CoSTAR屏幕实验室的使命的工作的一个关键方面将是推动可持续性和EDI方法的创新，正式的工作包已经设计成与关键的社区团体推动被剥夺权利的群体获得服务，同时遵守阿尔伯特项目和BREEAM认证框架制定的可持续性基准。