March 4, 2015, Game Developer Conference, San Francisco—Viktor Lidholt from Spritebuilder talked about techniques for advanced visual effects in 2-D games. Visual effects come from things like sprites, color, blur and bloom, and distorted polygons. In addition, the use of particles and shader effects add much to a game. All of these effects have to…
April 5, 2014, NAB, Las Vegas—Michael Karagosian from MKPE moderated a panel on the future of cinema. Panelists included Matt Cowan from the Entertainment Technology Center at USC, Rob Hummel from Group 47, David Keighley from Imax, Howard Lukk from Walt Disney Studios, and Steve Weinstein from Pixar. There are over 100k digital cinema systems…
September 22, 2011, user experience technical Summit, Hollywood—Sin Lin Wu from Arizona State University and Jorge Caviedes from Intel described the effects of post processing on stereo quality. All of the techniques that have been used and researched for years for 2-D are not all applicable to 3-D post production. Usually, post production just works…