Virtual production
Virtual production
Combine the real world with the digital world to accelerate your post pipeline.
Combine the real world with the digital world to accelerate your post pipeline.
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Image courtesy of WestworldWhat is virtual production?
What is virtual production?
Blending game technology with traditional filmmaking methods, virtual production techniques allow directors to see live actors within the context of digital assets and environments. By mixing live footage and computer graphics, filmmaking is more agile and creative decisions are made in the moment, live and simultaneous with filming – hugely speeding up and streamlining the production process.
Blending game technology with traditional filmmaking methods, virtual production techniques allow directors to see live actors within the context of digital assets and environments. By mixing live footage and computer graphics, filmmaking is more agile and creative decisions are made in the moment, live and simultaneous with filming – hugely speeding up and streamlining the production process.
Virtual production techniques
Early in the production process, filmmakers may combine digital assets and captured footage to communicate their creative and technical vision for a project.
Performance or motion capture involves recording an actor’s movement and facial expressions to animate digital models. This technique is often used when virtual characters need to interact in live-action environments.
Increasingly, filmmakers are opting to project lighting and imagery onto LED screens behind physical sets. Using real-time technology, VFX can then be adjusted on the spot, allowing for quick creative decisions to be made. Due to the photorealism achieved with LED screens, expensive on-location shoots also become less of a requirement.
Maya for virtual production
Maya for virtual production
Unreal Live Link for Maya makes it easy to stream animation data from Maya to Unreal Engine in real-time. Using the plugin, artists can work on character assets in Maya and see previews of their work reflected immediately in Unreal, as they iterate. In a virtual production setting, Unreal Live Link tightens the feedback loop, allowing filmmakers to make real-time decisions on set and quickly see changes in context.
Unreal Live Link for Maya makes it easy to stream animation data from Maya to Unreal Engine in real-time. Using the plugin, artists can work on character assets in Maya and see previews of their work reflected immediately in Unreal, as they iterate. In a virtual production setting, Unreal Live Link tightens the feedback loop, allowing filmmakers to make real-time decisions on set and quickly see changes in context.
Image courtesy of Epic GamesAccelerating creative workflows with Epic Games
Accelerating creative workflows with Epic Games
Autodesk experts join forces with Epic Games in this joint session from GDC 2022 covering the latest updates to Unreal Live Link for Maya and how the updated Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) and Unreal Engine integration drives seamless collaboration for artists across teams.
Autodesk experts join forces with Epic Games in this joint session from GDC 2022 covering the latest updates to Unreal Live Link for Maya and how the updated Flow Production Tracking (formerly ShotGrid) and Unreal Engine integration drives seamless collaboration for artists across teams.
Relevant software for virtual production
Maya
Flow Production Tracking
MotionBuilder
Virtual production resources
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Silverdraft is pushing the boundaries of film production with 3D photorealistic imagery and cinematic twins. See how their visualization tools, along with Autodesk software, have been part of the virtual production revolution.