Beginner's Guide to Virtual Production | Things You Need to Know

Where is the acknowledgement to the Unreal Engine? Without it, this level of virtual production would not be possible.

Honestly I've grown to hate virtual production very quickly. It is extremely easy and obvious to spot since the entire background is always super blurry and out of focus by necesity. Virtual production is in fact nothing new it's just a more high tech incarnation of rear screen projection and has the same obvious flaws. If what you're capturing on camera is a 2 dimensional screen that has no inherent depth then that's exactly what you are going to see. Green screen is fastly superior since you are directly editing your cgi render into the captured image rather putting your cgi render on a screen and filming the screen. It may be easier to get more accurately colored lighting in virtual production but it's just never going to look as good.

Very exciting times!

It really a guide. No actual guidance as to how to do it apart from some top level products. But not even an outline of the entire pipeline. It’s like saying a guide to baking a chocolate cake. We used an oven and there was flour involved.

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What's the camera tracking tool called?

Location shooting fast becoming a logistical nightmare of the past. And it won't be much longer until convincing virtual actors are able to replace lead characters also. Probably no more than 8-10 years from now.

Fascinating, but "Beginner's Guide" seems inaccurate. If it were truly a beginner's guide It would briefly show what's possible on a big-budget set such as you're showing here, and then it would tell beginners what they can do at their level, in language that they can understand. Otherwise it just comes off as Aputure flexing a lot fancy tech and gear. I assume it takes months or years to get to a point where we can become familiar enough with the VR tools to be able to manifest our ideas flexibly and without stumbling. IOW, don't talk down to your potential future clients.

Cool project, and initative. But the exemple shown here, looks so fake....
But honnestly I don't know if anyone but Greg Fraiser managed to have a believible image. Even disney's Obi Wan feels plastic / fake / studio...

Wow this was a great breakdown. Awesome

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This is pretty amazing.