GENERATING CONTENT BASED ON SHOT AGGREGATION

摘要

This disclosure provides an approach for aggregating elements that are common across shots in the rendering of image frames. In one embodiment, common elements are aggregated via a scene editor which stores the common elements in a scene layer, which is an asset that is a container for elements such as characters, locations, and the like that are common across shots. The scene layer permits new shots to be created that inherit the common elements, rather than from scratch or by manually copying elements from other shots. The scene editor may further receive elements specific to particular shots and store such elements in shot layers that are created on top of the scene layer and store differences from the scene layer. A rendering application then renders image frames on a shot-by-shot basis using the common elements stored in the scene layer and the shot-specific elements stored in the shot layers.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for rendering image frames of three-dimensional (3D) geometry, comprising:
storing a selection of elements common to a plurality of shots in a scene layer, wherein each shot includes multiple image frames from a continuous run of a virtual camera, and wherein a scene includes a collection of shots with at least a character and a locale in common; for at least one of the plurality of shots, storing a selection of elements specific to the shot in a respective shot layer; and rendering image frames in each of the shots based on the stored common elements and the stored elements specific to the shot.