A huge thank to Carl Weathers for narrating and Cris Blyth for editing last night's amazing Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award video -- thirty years of computer graphics and virtual production fun compressed into two minutes at the link!
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Director of Production Innovation Research @ Netflix
Adjunct Research Professor @ USC ICT
Governor, Visual Effects Branch @ Academy of Motion Pictures
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Academy Award nominations for Best Visual Effects announced! @ The Academy instagram.com/p/CnzWq-JryugK
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Light Field Video clips from Google's "Brutus" immersive light field video array are now available at github.com/nathan-fairchi edited and color-corrected by USC's Nathan Fairchild. We hope these will be of useful for research and to see these clips in 6DOF Virtual Reality soon!
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Before was being honored with a lifetime achievement award for groundbreaking imaging work, he was a undergrad using CGI to make his Chevette fly.
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6.15pm EST today! (3.15pm PST) I'm hosting this 'Groundbreaking On Set Lighting Technologies' session at with DOP Bill Pope . It's free! Still time to sign up. #RTC
realtime.community/program-novemb
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Did you hear the news? #SIGGRAPH2023 Technical Papers program submissions are opening soon! It's time to get your scholarly work prepped and ready to go before submissions close around the end of January 2023. Bookmark this page to be the first to submit:
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Another light stage technique from makes it into film production: I'll be speaking online about Time-Multiplexed Lighting (vgl.ict.usc.edu/Research/LS5/) at the RealTime Conference next week. Free registration to this and many more virtual production sessions below!
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This is going to be a very fun session next week at the @Realtime_Conf. Check out the program and sign up for free: realtime.community/program-novemb @debfx @jakegoat @TheSatelliteLab
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illustrating The Full Spectrum of #Virtual #Production for his 20th year here at at , #Turin!
Soo intresting to learn the whole process💡
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Looking forward to joining luminaries such as at the with in Turin next week! We'll be speaking about visual effects, virtual production, volumetric capture, and the whatever that metaverse thing is!
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Honored and excited to be speaking at the VIEW conference in Turin, Italy next week alongside pioneers like @rbredow and @debfx Check it out online at @viewconference #viewconference2022
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Acceptance remarks at the Engineering Emmys - many people to thank! @ The Maybourne Beverly Hills instagram.com/p/CjHvY4duUYWb
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Engineering Emmys: “This Award Is Motivation for Us to Continue” to Innovate hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/eng via
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Tomorrow night 7pm PDT: Five pioneering digital artists from the 1990's speak at the Los Angeles SIGGRAPH Chapter -- free registration link below: #siggraph #digitalart
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Tomorrow night 7pm PDT: Five pioneering digital artists from the 1990's speak at the Los Angeles SIGGRAPH Chapter! Register for the free webinar here: #siggraph #lasiggraph #digitalart lnkd.in/gxwJpsnZ
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We are honored & proud to be hosting
Computer Graphics Innovator Paul Debevec
2022.
Join us:⬇️⬇️⬇️
viewconference.it/pages/registra
Turin, Italy
16-21 Oct
#viewconference #virtualproduction #realtime #vfx #animation #film #games #art #ar #xr #ai #mr #jobs #vr
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#throwback to @debfx (@netflix) and his talk “Virtual Production: Getting the Lighting Right” at #FMX2022 
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Heading to SIGGRAPH 2022 in Vancouver and to excited to attend the DigiPro conference tomorrow, where Chloe LeGendre from our Netflix Production Innovation group will present our latest virtual production research "Jointly Optimizing Color Rendition and I…
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Congratulations to Dr. Paul E. Debevec, Director of Creative Algorithms & Technologies at Netflix, for winning the 2022 Charles F. Jenkins Lifetime Achievement Award from the Engineering, Science & Technology #Emmys emmys.com/news/awards-ne
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Excited for this recognition from the Television Academy!
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2022 Edition is looking promising!
#ramseynaito
#royconli
#AlexSchwartz
#krispearn
And many, many others! Check the full list here:
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Congratulations Paul Debevec for being elected as the Governor (Visual Effects Branch) 🎉🎉
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Thrilled at the content for our Machine Learning for Content Creation workshops last week … I hope to work with M. Hossein Taghavi and Vi (Pallavika) Iyengar on future editions! lnkd.in/gE6geiaK
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Light Stage 3, 's 2002 system that surrounded actors with LED's to light them with images of virtual sets, is now on 's Befores & Afters VFX Artifacts podcast series. I'll talk about Light Stage 3 and tons that's come after at tomorrow!
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It's a brand new episode of the VFX Artifacts podcast! @ianfailes chats with @debfx about Light Stage 3, and how it was used for R&D and work on several films, incl Benjamin Button, The Social Network and Spider-Man 3.
beforesandafters.com/2022/05/02/vfx
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Join at this panel featuring Kim Libreri, Deepa Patel and , as they look at how the lines are blurring between realities and what role real-time technologies will play in the creation of the Metaverse. Get your tickets➡️ ow.ly/EElJ50IMoj6
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News! 
Several conference talks will discuss the latest approaches to real-time technology, among them a panel that will explore the impact of real-time graphics on the industry and a new project by @dneg!
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Several conference talks will discuss the latest approaches to real-time technology, among them a panel that will explore the impact of real-time graphics on the industry and a new project by @dneg!
subscribe to our newsletter here: fmx.de/en/home
#FMX2022
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A standing ovation for our dearly departed Bill Taylor and Douglas Trumbull at the 20th Visual Effects Society Awards #vesawards
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20 years ago, we submitted a paper to about surrounding actors with LEDs to light them with images of virtual environments, now a key component of virtual production stages being built and used around the world. #TBT pauldebevec.com/Research/LS3/
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Some nice new work in natural image matting by using a Light Stage and ratio matting to create training data of people in consistent lighting and backgrounds with ground truth alpha channels ai.googleblog.com/2022/01/accura
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Congratulations to the 10 films to make the Academy's short list for 2021. So much brilliant work this year:
Black Widow
Dune
Eternals
Free Guy
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Godzilla vs. Kong
The Matrix Resurrections
No Time to Die
Shang-Chi and the Ten Rings
Spider-Man: No Way Home
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I'll talk about "Virtual Production: Getting the Lighting Right" at 6:35pm PT at today's alongside many other presenters working on the forefront of LED panel light stage techniques. Free to tune in at realtimeconference.com !
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High Dynamic Range Image-Based Lighting -- the technology that helps CGI actors and creatures look like they're really there in the scene -- as practiced by covered by in "The Definitive Weta Digital Guide to IBL"
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At tomorrow's (8AM Pacific Time) I'll present "Virtual Production: Getting the Lighting Right" including preliminary results from a new lighting reproduction study at . Free online registration to everything amazing at VIEW at viewconference.it
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Happy to see our "Relightables" Volumetric Capture work at featured by , with a hint of a follow-up to come on how we've improved the relighting results with ML since 2019. twitter.com/twominutepaper
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Today's the 30-year anniversary of The Chevette Project debevec.org/Chevette/ , when I shot the photos to make a textured 3D model of my car with photogrammetry. This set the stage for my UC Berkeley PhD, "Modeling and Rendering Architecture from Photographs."
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An excellent new video on the visual effects for 1986's "Flight of the Navigator" directed by with groundbreaking metal morphing spaceship CGI by and colleagues youtube.com/watch?v=tyixMp
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A new NFT art sale from our favorite Artist-in-Residence
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The auction for the Alexa // Sheila video art #NFT is now live on @OpenSea!
The #OpenSeaNFT bidding will be open for 48 hours. Auction closes Thursday 3pm PST 
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An exciting 3D telepresence project I've been excited to be a part of at Google, just announced at Google I/O: Live 3D Scanning + Light Field Displays = the next best thing to being there
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