Eliot Mack is an out-of-the-box thinker. After all, he designed the original iRobot Roomba, not to mention walking dinosaurs at Disney Imagineering. When trying his hand at filmmaking, he grew frustrated with the traditional VFX process, and started Lightcraft in an attempt to solve the visual effects problems he himself had encountered. He wanted something akin to an Industrial Light & Magic in a box that did all the groundwork.
Mack eventually came up with Previzion, a real-time visual effects system that provided high-precision camera tracking, rendering, and VFX keying for use in on-set compositing of virtual backgrounds and CGI characters. The virtual production system was well-received and was responsible for many groundbreaking productions. The company even received an Engineering Emmy for the Previzion system.
Rather than rest on that accomplishment and success, Mack envisioned a smaller, more portable and inexpensive system. This was the beginning of Jetset, a mobile app that enables users to access a full range of virtual production tools for any stage in the production process—from early story development to the last days of post, all using an iPhone or iPad.
Recent improvements and updates to Jetset puts Gaussian Splats, compositing, keying, tracking, scanning, etc. all in one place.
