A$AP Rocky's 'Helicopter' Music Video Features Gaussian Splatting and Radiance Fields Technology
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Summary
A$AP Rocky's new music video 'Helicopter' features innovative volumetric capture technology using Gaussian splatting and radiance fields. The video uses dynamic splats to render human performances, with technical contributions from Evercoast, Grin Machine, and WildCapture. This represents a significant advancement in music video production technology, blending artistic expression with cutting-edge 3D capture techniques.
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· 4 pulledBelieve it or not, A$AP Rocky is a huge fan of radiance fields.
What's easier to miss, unless you know what you're looking at, is that nearly every human performance in the video was captured volumetrically and rendered as dynamic splats.
I spoke with Evercoast, the team responsible for capturing the performances, as well as Chris Rutledge, the project's CG Supervisor at Grin Machine, and Wilfred Driscoll of WildCapture and Fitsū.
This is actually not the first time A$AP has used Radiance Fields in a music video.
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