I am a R&I Engineer on the "CineViz" ANR LabCom project, featuring a common research group between Inria Rennesand the innovative SME SolidAnim, around the creation of a novel generation of movie previsualization tools. I received the PhD in Computer Science in 2013 from University of Rennes (France). I have worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Inria Grenoble in the Imagine team headed by Prof. Marie-Paule Cani and Dr. Rémi Ronfard,and I have worked on the technology tranfer of a movie previsualization tool (now licensed as SolidFrame). I have also been an Assistant Professor (ATER) at University of Rennes from Sep. 2015 to Aug. 2016.
Since 2009, I have built an expertise in building smart creativity support tools for the cinema and game design industries. My research is targetting to provide assistance to artists (e.g., cinematographers, animators, game designers) in their technical or creative tasks. In this context, I have worked on tools for supporting tasks related to controlling virtual cameras and lights, with a particular focus on creating and relying on models that integrate domain knowledge inspired by common practices used in the cinema industry, then providing enough (interactive) control to the user(s). The outcome of my research can also benefit to a wide range of applications and, as a whole, I am interested in research challenges that lie at the intersection of Arts, Computer Graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and Human-Computer Interaction.
Highlights
June 2017
Inria's teams Mimetic and Hybrid participated to a 3-day "Virtual Reality Hackathon" organized at Inria Rennes. Its goal was to create an "interactive VR experience as a tribute to a film", and with the challenge to "bring innovation and sharing". In our group, we have made an hommage to the french movie "Asterix et Obelix : Mission Cléopâtre", through a VR application using an HTC Vive and a tangible interface. See the Video of the Hackathon.
Our CineViz LabCom project has been accepted by ANR. It will start from october 2016 and run for the next 3 years. Its goal is to co-develop the next generation of previsualisation technologies for the movie industry together with SolidAnim (SME based in Paris and Los Angeles).
May 2016
We presented a Tutorial on Algorithms and Techniques for Virtual Camera Controlat Eurographics 2016. See the tutorial materials.
Sep. 2015
Our paper "Camera-on-rail: Automated Computation of Constrained Camera Paths" has been accepted to the ACM SIGGRAPH Conference on Motion in Games 2015.
Aug. 2015
The first release of the ToricCamlibrary is available, with examples of use. ToricCam enables computing simple cases of one-shots and two-shots, relying on the 2D Manifold surface [Lino & Christie, 2012], as well as it provides the core code required to start using the Toric Space viewpoint representation [Lino & Christie, 2015].
Apr. 2015
Two papers accepted to the Eurographics Workshop on Intelligent Cinematography and Editing (WICED). See the program of the workshop.
Mar. 2015
Our paper "Intuitive and Efficient Camera Control with the Toric Space" has been accepted to ACM SIGGRAPH 2015. Get more details here. You can also access the full paper and the videos from the Publications page.
SIGGRAPH 2015: Toric Space
(editing: H.-Y. Wu; voice over: H.-Y. Wu)
Showcase of our SolidFrame tool using SolidAnim's "Mr Melies" marker-less tracking device Inria @Siggraph 2015
Methods, System and Software Program for Shooting and Editing a Film
Comprising at least One Image of a 3D Computer-generated Animation W. Bares, C. Lino, M. Christie, R. Ranon, US Patent n° 20130135315, May 30th 2013.
