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SAUCE: Asset Libraries of the Future

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Storage and retrieval of production assets is vital for every modern VFX and animation facility. From the volume of assets being stored to the constantly changing variety and richness of the asset data, efficiently storing, indexing, finding and retrieving the assets you want is a growing challenge. This paper discusses some of the requirements of modern asset storage systems for VFX and animation, introducing two systems that were built to address these challenges as part of the collaborative EU funded “SAUCE” project; DNEG’s search and retrieval framework, and Foundry’s back-end asset storage. It also presents example use cases of the asset library from Filmakademie’s experiments in virtual production, demonstrating more artist focused and task centered systems that enable greater asset re-use.

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DigiPro '20: Proceedings of the 2020 Digital Production Symposium
August 2020
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  1. asset library
  2. asset management
  3. asset retrieval
  4. asset search
  5. asset storage
  6. information retrieval

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  • (2021)Comprehensive Review and Future Research Directions on Dynamic Faceted SearchApplied Sciences10.3390/app1117811311:17(8113)Online publication date: 31-Aug-2021
  • (2021)Semantic Crowd Re-targeting: Implementation for Real-time Applications and User Evaluations2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00029(117-122)Online publication date: Mar-2021

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