Breaking Things to Learn: Inside RIT's VP Research & Education

In this episode of VP Land, Aaron Gordon from Synapse VP and David Long from RIT dive into the current state and future of virtual production. Learn about the challenges of LED stage design, how they're teaching virtual production, and how emerging tech like AI will impact filmmaking.

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Connect with David @ RIT:
Website - https://www.rit.edu/magic
Twitter - https://twitter.com/RITMAGIC
YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ritmagiccenter
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/ritmagic
David @ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidllong

Connect with Aaron @ Synapse VP:
Website - https://www.synapsevp.com
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/synapse-vp
David @ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-gordon-os


David Long is Director of the RIT Center for Media, Arts, Games, Interaction & Creativity (MAGIC) and MAGIC Spell Studios. David joined the faculty of the School of Film and Animation at Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007, where he also serves as an Associate Professor for the motion picture science program.  His research interests at RIT include engineering multispectral video capture and display systems, studying variability in human color vision for artistic applications, and modeling sensory perception of motion media.

Aaron Gordon is the founder and CEO of the forward-looking technology innovation firm, Optic Sky Productions. Aaron built a global team of award-winning directors, digital artists, storytellers, producers, and creative technologists that has reaped double & triple-digit growth each year. He has also dedicated much of his focus into education and helped nurture the next generation of filmmakers by positioning them in the bleeding edge technologies our industry is undoubtedly moving toward. 

Toward that end, Optic Sky partnered with Rochester Institute of Technology to create one of the first Virtual Production curriculums in the country.

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📝 SHOW NOTES & SOURCES

RIT MAGIC Center
https://www.rit.edu/magic/

Synapse VP
https://www.synapsevp.com/

RIT MAGIC Spell Studios
https://vimeo.com/user172407267

College of Art and Design at RIT
https://www.youtube.com/@CollegeofArtandDesignatRIT

Visit vp-land.com for the complete show notes.

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00:00 Intro 
01:48 David Long's backstory and RIT
06:25 Aaron Gordon's backstory
09:07 Designing RIT's VP curriculum
12:35 The Synapse VP stage
17:59 Transferable skills in VP
19:07 RIT's immersion course and curriculum
24:46 Technical skills for cinematographers
28:38 Scanning and photogrammetry
31:25 Color challenges in VP
36:12 AR/VR in virtual production 
41:20 Photogrammetry, NeRF, and 3D scanning
58:35 AI in virtual production
01:05:25 Outro