{"id":983,"date":"2020-02-26T16:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=983"},"modified":"2020-02-26T16:25:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T00:25:47","slug":"making-movies-surrounded-by-real-virtual-environments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/making-movies-surrounded-by-real-virtual-environments\/","title":{"rendered":"making movies surrounded by real virtual environments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/software\/mandolorian_the_volume.png\" alt=\"The Volume\u201d for The Mandalorian at Manhattan Beach Studios\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve never seen it, but <a href=\"https:\/\/ascmag.com\/articles\/the-mandalorian\">this in-depth article<\/a> on filming &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; is fascinating. Instead of filming actors in front of an enormous green screen and later replacing it with CGI background and special effects, as you see in Game of Thrones &#8220;making of&#8221; featurettes, the actors act in &#8220;the Volume,&#8221; encircled by 270 degrees of video wall and a video ceiling that display the surroundings of the scene rendered photorealistically from the point of view of the camera lens as they film! It&#8217;s the old technique of projecting the scenery behind actors in a car while one pretend to steer it, times 10,000; the Holodeck from Star Trek: Next Generation brought to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The consequences of this are far-reaching. They can shoot a desert scene as dawn is breaking for 10 hours. The actors see their surroundings, they don&#8217;t have to imagine them. One you wouldn&#8217;t think of is it removes much of the need for set lighting. The wall of LEDs *is* the ambient light of that desert dawn (although it doesn&#8217;t work as well for direct sunlight). It means metallic things naturally reflect accurate details of the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Star Wars environments tend to be based on real places on Earth, so they have a &#8220;scanning and photogrammetry team that would travel to locations such as Iceland and Utah to shoot elements for the Star Wars planets. &#8230; the scanner straps six cameras to their body which all fire simultaneously as the scanner moves about the location.&#8221; (Nice job!) And then, instead of doing location scouting to imagine what filming will be like, &#8220;the director and cinematographer can go into the virtual location with VR headsets and do a virtual scout. Digital actors, props and sets are added and can be moved about and coverage is chosen during the virtual scout.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never seen it, but this in-depth article on filming &#8220;The Mandalorian&#8221; is fascinating. Instead of filming actors in front of an enormous green screen and later replacing it with CGI background and special effects, as you see in Game &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/making-movies-surrounded-by-real-virtual-environments\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=983"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":985,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983\/revisions\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}