Objectives

1. Using GPU Rendering- Achieving Animation Production in Hours王銓彰Media Lab, Next Media AnimationOctober 22, 2010

2. Objectives • What We Do and Why • Classic Animation Production Pipeline Concept • Next Media Animation Pipeline • What We Have Learned and Will Do with GPU

3. 新聞動畫 • Animate the “Missing Image” inside the News • Our Objectives • Within Two Hours Finishing One Animation • From Story Board to Broadcasting • At least 20 sets of News Animation per Day • Famous People Must Look Like Themselves • No Quality Sacrificed • Mission Impossible • Regular Animation Pipeline Not Working Now • Some Technical Creativity Needed

4. 新聞動畫 • We Integrate the Game Development with the Computer Animation • Utilizing GPU Computing Power to Solve the Problems Mission Completed !

5. 新聞動畫 • You Can See the 蘋果動新聞 at • http://tw.nextmedia.com • http://hk.nextmedia.com • YouTube • 壹電視 Next TV • http://www.nexttv.com.tw/

6. Next Media Animation 壹傳媒動畫 • From August, 1st, 2007 • 250 Animation Production Staff • Production Capacity • 30 Animations / Day, 30-second Animation Each • 100 min. Animation / Week • Major Customers • 蘋果日報、壹電視、路透社、BBC 、Turner • Medial Lab • R&D Team in Next Media Animation

7. 3D Animation Production Pipeline Visual Development Pre- production Shot Production Delivery Modeling Camera track Match Movie Animation Layout Animation Animation Cleanup Tech Animation Lighting Effects Rendering Composite Sketches Texture Paint Storyboarding Pre-lighting Rigging

8. ?? days ?? Days/hours ?? hours 3D Animation Production Pipeline Visual Development Pre- production Shot Production Delivery Modeling Camera track Match Movie Animation Layout Animation Animation Cleanup Tech Animation Lighting Effects Rendering Composite Sketches Texture Paint Storyboarding Pre-lighting Rigging For 30-sec Animation :

9. Our Solution • 1st Step • No More CPU Rendering • No Rendering Farm • GPU Rendering • Shaders • Next Gen Game Production Spec. • Keeping in “OK” Quality • Graphics Workstation = Rendering Machine • Final Rendering Quality When Editing • WYSWYG

10. Next Gen. Game Rendering

11. Our Solution • 2nd Step • Building Up a high Efficient Motion Capture Pipeline • 50 Vicon Cameras • In-house Motion Retargeting Technique • We Capture 300 Motion Clips Every Day. • 10 min. Data Processing Time for Each Motion Clip before Delivering to Animators • Facial Motion Capture for Facial Expression Synthesis Facial Mocap Demo

12. Our Solution • 3rd Step • In-house Animation Software • 70% Animation Done by Our Own Tools • 95% Rendering Work Done by GPU • A 3dsMax Real-time Renderer Plugin • Procedural Animation • Game AI Technologies • Physics Simulation • Integrate PhysX with Our Game Engine • Real-time Renderer + Post-processing AT Demo

13. Our Solution • 4th Step • Graphics Asset Database and Search Engine • 3D Models • Characters • Textures • Motion Clips • Animation Templates • Recycling Mechanism • Workflow Management System

14. 20 min. 30 min. 5 min + 0.5 hour Our Pipeline Visual Development Pre- production Shot Production Delivery Models/Characters in Database Camera track Game AI Motion from MoCap Physics Enigne Lighting Effects (Game Engine) Real-time 3D Rendering By Game Engine Composite Sketches Storyboarding 20 min. For 30-sec Animation :

15. What We Have Learned • GPU Rendering Is the Most Important Successful Key for News Animation • GPU Is Not Only for Graphics • Real-time Rendering • Facial Expression Synthesis in Real-time (20fps) • Computer Vision • Physics Simulation • Computational Geometry • GPU Provides Us Super-computing Power • R&D Is Very Important

16. What We Will Do NVIDIA CUDA

17. What We Will Do • Setup a Hybrid Programming Environment • GPU + Multi-Core • New Projects • GPU-based Global Illumination Renderer • GPU Rendering Farm • New Hair and Fur Solution • New Skin Deformation with Muscle and Fascia

18. Thanks Light Stage X @ Next Media Animation, Media Lab