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Firebolt: A System for Automated Low-Level Cinematic Narrative Realization

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Interactive Storytelling (ICIDS 2019)

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Creation of machine generated cinematics currently requires a significant amount of human author time or manually coding domain operators such that they may be realized by a rendering system. We present FireBolt, an automated cinematic realization system based on a declarative knowledge representation that supports both human and machine authoring of cinematics with reduced authorship and engineering task loads.

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  1. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Brandon R. Thorne

  2. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    David R. Winer & R. Michael Young

  3. Raleigh, NC, USA

    Camille Barot

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  1. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Rogelio E. Cardona-Rivera

  2. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Anne Sullivan

  3. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    R. Michael Young

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Thorne, B.R., Winer, D.R., Barot, C., Young, R.M. (2019). Firebolt: A System for Automated Low-Level Cinematic Narrative Realization. In: Cardona-Rivera, R., Sullivan, A., Young, R. (eds) Interactive Storytelling. ICIDS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11869. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33894-7_34

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