The Human Race
The Human Race was the culmination of years of efforts across continents from the Mill teams and partnerships with Epic and Arraiy. It featured a bespoke onsite previsualization system we named “Cyclops.” Cyclops uses cameras mounted onto the physical location of a virtual object to create image-based lighting and environment/reflection maps. My involvement included consulting on computer vision tracking, building the system on the car that would stitch 4 RED cameras together, writing a custom streaming TOP for NDI before Derivative released one for touchdesigner, as well as testing protocols to ensure that the stitched video could stream to the capture/render car. On the administrative side, I contributed to planning and spec’ing the hardware, and working with patent attorneys to codify the innovation within the Cyclops system.