4Dviews, the provider of volumetric video solutions, has announced that Crescent Inc., its partner studio in Tokyo, Japan, is the first to use the new 4Dviews Gaussian Splatting pipeline, HOLOSYS Splatting. Crescent used the new pipeline on a music video for famed Japanese girl band Perfume, which has announced its hiatus after a remarkable 25-year run. The video, ‘Perfume『Fumetsu no anata』Concept Movie’, is the last project before Perfume’s indefinite sabbatical. The J-Pop band has used 4Dviews on previous projects, but this use of 4Dviews Gaussian Splatting provides richer hair, skin, and facial capture.
The 4Dviews Gaussian Splatting advancement highlights 4Dviews’ ongoing R&D investment in modular pipeline design, scalable visual fidelity, and rendering technologies suited for immersive media production, while providing total freedom for high-quality productions.
“This is a stable pipeline for our long-standing and experienced partners at Crescent, and showcases our Gaussian Splatting techniques to the fullest,” said Richard Broadbridge, CEO of 4Dviews. “We are thrilled that Perfume has chosen this conceptual approach for their current project. Seeing the three members of Perfume – Nocchi, Kashiyuka, and A-chan – captured in this format creates a different, more human, and more ‘alive’ presentation that matches the engaging brightness of their music.”
Crescent has delivered astonishing output using 4Dviews’ technology in recent years, including the ‘KAGAMI’ experiential piece with Tin Drum, which captured renowned Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto playing a solo piano concert that viewers could literally move around with the help of Magic Leap mixed-reality glasses.
The 4Dviews HOLOSYS Splatting pipeline expands the creative and technical possibilities of volumetric production. This development enables a dual-export pipeline where creators can choose between traditional mesh-and-texture workflows or Gaussian Splatting, depending on their production needs. With this capability, production teams can now support complex visual elements — including hair, fur, reflective and translucent surfaces, and intricate props — while maintaining full compatibility with existing capture workflows. The result is richer, more realistic storytelling and expanded shooting freedom.
“We see our HOLOSYS Splatting pipeline as another tool in our technical arsenal that meets the ever-evolving needs of creators, expanding what is possible for virtual content creators,” said Broadbridge. “We can provide more flexibility and control to support the narrative instead of constraining it, whether you need pipeline flexibility or cinematic fidelity.”
Unlike traditional implementations of this technology, 4Dviews has engineered its integration for greater stability and higher fidelity in challenging scenarios. The company is focused on adapting the method to support a wider range of performances and use cases — from low-bandwidth streaming to high-fidelity offline rendering — while maintaining backwards compatibility with all HOLOSYS-captured volumetric assets. This innovative approach provides greater dimension to all aspects of the performance, from higher detail on the hair to the more realistic representation of complicated props like a guitar.
You can watch the concept movie at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e35POMk10do
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