THE VERY REAL ENGINE POWERING REMOTE PRODUCTION

摘要

It’s important to make a distinction between incamera visual effects, and other forms of virtual production. Unreal Engine has been set up to do all sorts of forms of virtual production for about eight years, but it just keeps getting better and better at accommodating film, TV, and animation workflows. The culmination of these improvements can be seen in the rise of interest in in-camera visual effects. In-camera VFX for this kind of production uses massive LED screens and a tracked camera to create a stage volume, while rendering the perspective of that camera through Unreal Engine scenes playing out across multiple LED panels. Epic Games was part of an active R&D effort in developing the workflow for season one of Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian along with ILM and Magnopus to help realise Jon Favreau’s ambitious vision for the show. Many new features evolved from that R&D effort that are now available to all users in the main branch of Unreal Engine.