THANK YOU EVERYONE!

To everybody who backed this project — thank you. Your incredible support and constructive feedback transformed the Capture Camera Clip System from an idea to reality. In turn, it has transformed my life.  On May 2, 2011, I launched Capture as a guy with a dream, out on a limb.  75 incredible days later, I am a father with a business.  There are a lot of stories written in the course of each of our lives.  This Kickstarter campaign will be forever remembered for me as one that changed my life.  I will continue to do everything that I can to ensure that the direction of that change is positive for Capture users, and for my family.

Whether you’re an artist, documentarian, musician or designer, crowdsource funding is changing the game. You no longer need deep pockets or equity grabbing venture capital firms to bring a vision to fruition. You just need a good idea and a bunch of other folks out there who share your passion. Thank you, Kickstarter for doing what you’ve done, and thank you backers, for sharing my vision.

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Juan Zambrano teamed up with CG artist Stephen Wheeler to create these stunning images that appeared on Season 10 of Project Runway.

Born from a media team that comprised CG artist Stephen Wheeler and international advertising photographer Juan Zambrano, the IIMUAHII COUTURE lookbook took Elena’s futuristic fashion designs and set them against the all-white rooms and angular lines of a modern home. Using modo’s modeling tools, Stephen was able to build walkways, bend walls and refine the architecture of four full rooms from scratch, giving his collaborators something they could critique and comment on well before the project’s accelerated timeline was up. The approved environments were then rendered photorealistically, resulting in image assets that were magazine-ready before the models started posing for their pictures.

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Academy award nominated movie for best documentary. The LightGrid and Obscura Digital collaborated to create a time-lapse sequence in order to bring awareness to climate change. #projectingchange #climate2014

Here are a few behind the scene shots of the production team in action.

Further, we intend to analyze, structure and deliver that visual content in ways that transform it from being a long-form view-only medium to a fine-grained, interactive, and conversational one. This makes a video more compelling and effective for individuals to learn from and supports communities who can develop and refine complex ideas in video discourse.

What problem are we solving and for whom? Who will benefit?
The media landscape is rapidly changing and transforming how we transfer knowledge. AI and specifically NI (Narrative Intelligence) plays an integral role in this transformation as it grapples with what Stanford philosophy professor Ken Taylor calls “the other” — that is, how cultures experience and sort out their differences. Doing this well, aided by advanced technologies that our company is developing, helps evoke empathy and better communication and learning. Communication and connection are at the center of how we begin to solve humanity’s problems over the next century. It is a big problem and everyone should benefit.

Who is our first target customer? How is their problem being currently addressed or solved?
We envision the company’s system as an integrated ‘intelligent” rich media capture appliance that will allow our customers to quickly and efficiently record and distribute advertising, educational and training videos and more effectively engages in knowledge transfer. Our media capture and management system, enhanced with robotics and machine learning, plays an integral part of their vision. Our R&D efforts in automatic content indexing and narrative intelligence to create richer exchanges of media content is a key differentiator in their messaging and streaming strategy.

What is your current business model?
We are testing three different revenue streams, including direct sales and franchising our successful prototype deployment. Once a LightGrid is in a customer’s or operator’s hands, there will be opportunities for various sorts of usage-based licensing and expanded services for ongoing revenue. In our deployed prototype, we have been successful by billing hourly with menus of value-added services. As our content structuring matures, our software infrastructure indexing and threaded playback will become an important value for our customers.

What future trend, technology or market conditions make it the right time to build this company and how does our product tap into this trend?
The current trends towards 4K video content and high-quality streaming over IP (and emerging 5G) networks, coupled with AI, IoT, Industry 4.0, and the burgeoning knowledge transfer and educational technology marketplaces. Our smart platform for content capture, automated indexing and editing, flexible and right-sized distribution, and analytics sits squarely in the center of opportunities across these markets. Use cases for us at this early stage with Singularity University and YouTube will lay the groundwork for the company as we evolve with these emerging growth markets and more.

What are the top 3 milestones the company has achieved in product and customer development and how long did it take to reach them?
1. Acquisition of extensive library (from 10,000 customer engagements and hundreds of thousands of media assets gathered with our prototype system) of meta-data from image capture provides us with a solid foundation for our software, fodder for big-data analysis, and an understanding of customer needs.

2. Working, robust, field-tested and financially viable lighting system for photography (and, later, videography) with zero failures over approximately 20000+ hours and counting.

3. Implementation of virtual director “eye-gaze vector” system to allow for remote interviewing of subjects in the system. First live-tested with a survivor of the Gilroy Garlic Festival mass shooting on July 28, 2019.

How many paying customers does the company have to date?
Over 10,000 as of July, 2019.

Clarifications on the values of active users or paying customers above
There are two levels of “customer” for LightGrid, purchasers/operators and end-users. We have had thousands of end-users (image-makers paying for time in the LightGrid), for the prototype grid, but there are still only two LightGrids in existence.

LightGrid, a patented technology came from that experience. It digitally captures images and videos from pre-formulated lighting settings. Clients can capture the perfect image every time with the touch of a button. The LightGrid is an interactive, creative space where virtually anyone can produce professional-quality images and video in just minutes for the internet, social networks, or simply for the fun of it.

Crew credit for the Camelia Skikos shoot:

Stylist: Konrad Janus

H/M Mil Ramon

Assistant: Ramona Popa

Model: Anna Makovchick

Here are some more beautiful shots from one of Claudia Goetzelmann‘s personal shoots starring lips!