Learn the basic techniques and most commonly used technologies of professional video production in virtual environments.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to virtual production foundations
- Who this course is for and how to best use it
- LED volumes and virtual production
- Live demonstration of an LED volume
- Examples of recent virtual productions
- Virtual production in an LED volume vs. green screen
- What is driving the massive increases in LED volume usage?
- Create and use a camera frustum
- Survey of camera tracking technologies
- Cinema lighting in an LED volume
- Applying pixel mapping to sample and match backdrops to lighting
- When to use previs and techvis
- Storyboarding using virtual cameras in game engines
- Exploring the marketplaces for environments and models
- How a virtual art department differs from a traditional one
- Optimizing for real-time performance
- Creating highly realistic assets with photogrammetry
- Visual effects in virtual cinematography
- Using virtual scouting to explore an environment
- Evaluating the best remote collaboration tools
- Key crew positions in the brain bar
- Identifying optical challenges in an LED volume
- Color grading in a volume
- Optimizing image quality with color science
- Live compositing in an LED volume
- Opportunities for veterans and newcomers in virtual production
- What’s next in virtual production?
Taught by
Noah Kadner