Via a thread on CGTalk comes word of “The Virtual Director” (Link). You can read the full press release on CGTalk (I didn’t see it on the target site), but this is basically part realtime pre-visualization and part regular digital filmmaking. This is one of what must be dozens of efforts to merge actors with virtual spaces.

If you’re into this stuff, the video on the site might be interesting. But note that the above image is a clean render from an earlier session; the realtime stuff still looks much more primitive.

And btw, if you watch the video, correct me if I’m wrong but I think that’s Maya software they’re running. Guess we’ll have to wait for an explanation.

{Image source: Origami Digital}