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Ripple Effect White Paper

The White Paper detailing all the technology, vendors, and techniques involved with the making of “Ripple Effect”

Available now.

ETC DTS 1/20/21 Ripple Effect P2 Virtual Production

The talks and panels from the January 20, 2021 ETC Digital Town Square - “Breaking Down Ripple Effect Pt 2: Virtual Production”.

Available now.

Breaking Down "Ripple Effect: A new way forward for Media & Entertainment production

Access Passcode: *9vj!1K7

Featured Talks:

Safteyviz: A Good Plan Comes Together with the Aid of Technology

Defining a Safety Plan: Practical Checklist and Considerations

Software, API’s and Metadata: Pipelines of the Virtual World

Onset: Here Today, Remote Tomorrow

Into the Cloud We Go…

Post: Editing and post in the Cloud

Event Recorded: 11/19/2020 - 1PM PST

The VR/AR Global Summit Online is an online conference, brought to you by the VR/AR Association, connecting the best virtual reality and augmented reality solution providers with enterprise and media entertainment companies

Event Date: 01 Oct
Session Time: 2:30pm EST / 11:30am PST
Title: AMPD Panel A New Paradigm of Creativity: A panel of industry experts will help the audience to understand the key advantages and challenges of virtual production, impacts to workflow, how to get started with virtual production, and even as an indie, understand how to access the benefits of virtual production without breaking the bank.

Panelists:

Anthony Brown, CEO, AMPD Technologies (Moderator)
Kathryn Brillhart, Executive Producer & Director of Virtual Production, ETC

Steven Read, CEO, Versatile Media
James Knight, M&E / Visual Effects Director at AMD
James Hursthouse, CSO@AMPD Technologies

Schedule (Full Hopin Schedule)

Speakers

SoCal Women’s Leadership Summit on Oct. 7

The Ripple Effect: Choosing Technology as a Career Path

This session gathers the prinicpal technoloigists and creatives behind ETC's (Entertainment Technology Center at USC) latest innovation project - called "The Ripple Effect". What challeneges did these amazing women overcome on their career path as technologists. What biases do they see in the technologies that they utilize.

October 7th

GLIMPSE INTO THE FUTURE: VIRTUAL PRODUCTION & COVID, UNDERSTAND THE EVOLUTION OF HOLLYWOOD

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2020

Ever wondered how “The Mandalorian” was made? Or what’s needed to bring film crews back to work in the safest environment possible? Join Shop Member Erik Weaver of the USC School of Cinematic Arts for a behind-the-scenes look at how production teams are adapting and leveraging technology to allow film work to resume safely during COVID-19. Erik will share clips from the short film “Ripple Effect” as a real-world example of how virtual reality software and game engine technologies are impacting Hollywood.

Erik is a specialist focused on the intersection of cloud and the M&E industry and is currently running special projects for the Entertainment Technology Center at USC. He has also served as chairman of NAB's Next Generation Media Technologies / Tomorrow's Tech Conference 2014-2020!

Please RSVP for this event in advance - for virtual participation join via Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83809809534

M&E Day @NAB New York on Oct. 20

The Ripple Effect: From theory to production - an exploration of Covid-era Physical Production.

In this session we’ll do a deep dive with the team who tested critical steps to restart and continue film productions in a new world due to the COVID through a unique project called the Ripple Effect. Through the work of the The Entertainment Technology Center at the University of Southern California (ETC) and the USC School of Cinematic Arts grad students and alum, they’ll share results of the project and answer such questions as 'How do we get back to work with the majority of work now being conducted remotely?’ and 'What are the best solutions for studios to continue productions during these times?

Moderator: Erik Weaver

Smart Content Summit (London) on Nov. 5

This session gathers the prinicpal technologists and creatives behind The ETC's (Entertainment Technology Center at USC), a premiere professional graduate program for interactive entertainment, and it's latest innovation project - called "The Ripple Effect”, an exploration to answer critical questions around restarting and continuing film production during a global pandemic. We’ll learn about how production metadata played a critical role in VFX management and studio cataloging as well as managing a variety of other aspects of pre, during and post production.

Moderator: Erik Weaver