​Girish Balakrishnan is a Virtual Production Technical Director working at Digital Domain, currently exploring brand new real-time workflows for preproduction pipelines that leverage cutting-edge game and film technologies. As part of his earlier work developing the SmartVCS, a new mobile virtual camera capture platform, Girish is researching possibilities for reshaping virtual production techniques. His patented cinematography research work has recently been awarded the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Randy Pausch Award and the Unity Awards at Unite 2013, and was presented at SIGGRAPH 2013′s Studio Exhibition