SMPTE RIS Update: Color Management for On-Set Virtual Production

Catherine Meininger is the Director of Color Science at Portrait Displays, a company that provides color display solutions for global device manufacturers, content creators, and content distributors. At Portrait Displays, she is the lead designer and developer of the Aurora Color Engine within the Calman color calibration software. She also leads a growing team of color scientists that investigate display calibration methodologies and other color research initiatives that are relevant to the creative industry as a whole, such as color management for on-set virtual production. She represents Portrait Displays as a part of the OSVP working groups with the ETC and SMPTE RIS. Ms. Meininger earned her bachelor's degree in Motion Picture Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT).

Tim S. Kang, a NY and LA based cinematographer, has worked in the motion picture industry as a cinematographer on narrative, commercial, and documentary projects. He also serves as principal engineer, imaging applications for Aputure, after a 6 year tenure as principal engineer, color and imaging, for Quasar Science, a Videndum Production Solutions lighting solutions company. In this former capacity, he co-founded and chairs the Lighting Committee for the American Society of Cinematographers' Motion Imaging Technology Council.

Rod Bogart is an imaging science technologist in the entertainment industry. He began his career in 1992 at Pacific Data Images, followed by ten years at Industrial Light & Magic. At ILM, Rod was instrumental in the design, implementation, and deployment of the industry standard OpenEXR image format, which is at the core of ACES (Academy Color Encoding System). He then spent nine years as the lead color scientist at Pixar, pioneering file-based workflows with Pixar's Image Mastering team and contributing to the design of the system which became the SMPTE IMF (Interoperable Master Format). Rod then worked at HBO for three years, researching next generation display and distribution techniques for high dynamic range content. Rod is currently the Principal Color Scientist in the Virtual Production Tools team at Epic Games, concentrating on color pipeline. Rod is a member of the Visual Effects branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and has participated in investigations for the Science and Technical Awards Committee for the past ten years. He is ACES vice-chair, and a member of SMPTE and VES. His initials are RGB.

Ritchie Argue is the Director of R&D at Fuse Technical Group. He is also a co-chair for the SMPTE RIS Interop working group and the LED display lead for the Entertainment Technology Center's Virtual Production Working Group. His focus is on simplifying the complexities of cutting-edge display technologies for use in real-time production environments. Prior to joining Fuse, Ritchie spent over 15 years as a product manager and technical contributor to LED display and processing systems, working at Planar, VER, Barco, and Element Labs. He received his BS from the University of BC in Vancouver, BC, and his MS in computer science from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.