We're excited about the significant technical and creative innovations that ANSWER will deliver. We've listed some of them below - underlined innovations link to detailed description pages. More of the innovations will be detailed as the project progresses, but don't hesitate to contact us directly for more information:

• Construction of a semantic model of the director's art : a film production ontology;
• An artistic notation system that will allow artists to describe film direction;
• An extension of the notation system for game development;
• Application of the machine-processable representation to automatically generate animated 3D 'pre-vis' storyboards;
• Application of the machine-processable representation to automatically extract metadata that will allow content-based retrieval of raw footage during post production;
• Synchronisation of the user's notation input to what is actually filmed;
• Application of the machine processable representation to automatically generate 3D animation directives that can be integrated in a game engine, allowing artistic definition of cinematic presentation of content in computer games.