Volumetric Capture

Here is how the work lines up. Canadian volumetric capture sits at the research frontier rather than the catalog one — the Microsoft Mixed Reality Capture Studios partnership track runs through Sheridan College Oakville, York University Toronto, UBC Centre for Digital Media and the Microsoft Vancouver office's volumetric R&D programme, with the NFB / ONF Montreal hands-on division anchoring the documentary and bilingual EN / FR side of immersive volumetric work.

Here is the breakdown. Pixomondo Toronto's in-house Unreal team integrates volumetric assets directly into The Vol LED stage workflows that Star Trek: Discovery and Strange New Worlds validated from 2020, DNEG Vancouver's virtual production division carries similar volumetric-plus-LED integration for feature scale, and Rodeo FX Montreal plus Hybride Saint-Hyacinthe handle francophone-side volumetric R&D under Telefilm Canada and CMF Experimental stream funding.

Here is what that looks like on the ground. Our coordinators schedule capture sessions at Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal volumetric stages, run wardrobe and pattern review at pre-production so reconstruction quality holds across multi-person performance scenes, and route point-cloud, mesh-sequence and compressed volumetric video deliverables into Unreal, Unity, AR Foundation and WebXR pipelines.

Here is how the picture comes together. Heritage and cultural-preservation volumetric work has a uniquely Canadian chance space — Inuit cinema's Atanarjuat era. The Indigenous performance traditions logged through Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami and the Indigenous Screen Office sit alongside Quebec City UNESCO walled-city volumetric reconstruction, Lunenburg UNESCO heritage and the Group of Seven landscape painting tradition as candidate volumetric-preservation commissions.

Here is what we have to work with. Performance volumetric capture for music, dance and theatre runs through the same DNEG Vancouver and Pixomondo Toronto pipelines that handle episodic LED stage integration, with on-stage TDs synchronising multi-camera arrays, depth sensors and Mo-Sys StarTracker camera tracking across capture sessions. Our coordinators carry CBSA ATA carnet forms for any imported volumetric arrays that supplement resident inventory.

Here is the layout. Tax-credit forms stacks CPTC 25% federal labour or PSTC 16% foreign-labour with Ontario OPSTC 21.5% plus 18% computer animation, BC PSTC 28% plus DAVE 16% plus 6% regional, or Quebec QPSTC tiered — with CAVCO certification, Telefilm Canada, CMF Experimental / Indigenous / Performance / Production streams and Indigenous Screen Office filings carried through delivery.