Directors Lens is a new tool designed for animators and film directors to interactively explore a large collection of shots over their 3D animation, and rapidly create and compare multiple edits of the same animation. Designed in mind for virtual production and rapid prototyping of synthetic movies, the tool assists the filmmaker in exploring the cinematographic possibilities of his 3D scene.
Software
The Directors Lens engine generates shots encoding classical framing rules related to shot size (such as long/medium/close-up/extreme close-up shots), shot type (internal, external, apex, parallel, subjective) and shot composition (gaze room, rule of the thirds).
The engine also selects shots according to continuity editing rules (jump-cut, 180 rule, change in size, and motion continuity). The tool is now developed as a plugin in Motion Builder. The tool connects with Vicon Streaming plugin in order to let the user reframe selected shots, and shoot free camera motions using a Virtual Camera System.
Features
- Automatic generation of stereotypical shots including: internal, external, apex, subjective, with ranges from Extreme Long Shots to Extreme Close-ups, and with medium, high and low angles
- Possibility of navigating through the set of shots depending on the targets to frame, the size of the shot, the type of shot, the visibility of targets (and more)
- Ability to store a frame composition, and re-apply it on different targets
- Ability to record free camera motions, and reapply them on different targets.
- Ability to connect with a Virtual Camera System