Epic's Distant Future

[Tom Lowe]

If Jim makes bank off of DSMC, he should set up a Skunkworks/Darpa type secret unit to look into all of this, and place the headquarters building out by Groom Lake and Area 51. :coolgleamA:

Red Ranch is already quite near Nellis Air Force Base and Area 51.

 

[Raul Gonzo]

Right now, there is a camera that is not a camera, but more like a laser that records everything into 3D space.
I think there is an amazing future in this.

 

[Erik Bien]

This sounds like a VFX guy's version of paradise; to do away with old art department/SFX dinosaurs like me ... :001_unsure:

As far as I'm concerned it will be a sad day when we no longer get to travel to far-flung locations, dress people in funny costumes and put them on horseback, burn stuff down and blow stuff up. :crying:

 

[Raul Gonzo]

I think you would still want to do things like go to the right location and costumes and such. But think of the possibilities of this in post.
You would have a very god-like power to:

Put cameras wherever you want.
Add/subtract lights.
Change time of day.
Move cameras in ways that are nearly impossible in reality.
Endless possibilities...

 

[Quentin Brown]

Some pretty wild stuff here. But quite possible I'm sure.
The only question on my mind is whether movies will exist in their current format by the time all this becomes reality. Surely things are likeley to progress to a more interactive 3D experience by then. I guess this would be the technology to enable that.

 

[Quentin Brown]

I'm sure there will always be a place for cinema though;-). Just it's place in the scheme of things will continue to change.

 

[David Rasberry]

Also, no more Mo-Cap. Tag someone as a Werewolf in your cameras touchscreen, and have a Werewolf model overlayed their body realtime in the camera.

Talk about taking the "skins" concept to a whole new level!:001_cool:

 

[Eren Ozkural]

I've always imagined the future of cameras as being a cross between LIDAR and plenoptic sensing instruments placed around a "volume" and then just capturing the pure performances and deciding on the style and point of view of the movie later.

I find this sad when I think about it at first but then it dawns on me that non linear editing and CGI would be seen as scary, unpure or fascinating way of making films over a hundred years ago. Almost akin to magic.

 

[Eren Ozkural]

This talk of the Radiohead video got me thinking about creating the effect at home without expensive scanners.

You just need to replicate their set up and interpret the results through Trapcode Form on After Effects using Luma levels as a displacement map.

I made a quick example video for you guys that's rendering right now but here's some stills to illustrate how a quick and dirty version of this setup looks without polish, error correction etc.

 

[Roberto Lequeux]

Do we have an ETA for my bass with 28k Epics mounted yet?! Dammit Jim!!
How am I supposed to record my world take over without them?!

...could you offer a x4 bundle, please?

 

[Tim Whitcomb]

I'm not sure Red would have much problem with becoming the next Canon (and then some)

I hope they DON'T become the next Canon, as I believe it's counterintuitive to their mission... obsolescence obsolete is the theme here and why most of us jumped on board.

RED is on a sort of Star Trek... "To boldy go where no one has gone before"

But if it all stopped right now... I'd be happy with my RED ONE and Build 21
for the enxt decade because the images (even transcoded to proress 4444) are just breathtaking...

I'm more worried about the decline of the US dollar than I am what EPIC will look like in the future.

cheers!

 

[Wesley Scoggins]

http://vimeo.com/6496886

Here to illustrate a prediction I made earlier in the thread. I definitely think we'll start seeing stuff similar to this embedded in cameras and applicable to video within the next 20 years.