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LinkedIn Learning

Virtual Production Foundations

via LinkedIn Learning

Overview

Learn the basic techniques and most commonly used technologies of professional video production in virtual environments.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to virtual production foundations
  • Who this course is for and how to best use it
1. Virtual Production
  • LED volumes and virtual production
  • Live demonstration of an LED volume
  • Examples of recent virtual productions
2. Key Virtual Production Technologies
  • 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
3. Pre-Production Workflow
  • 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
4. On-Set Techniques and Roles
  • 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
Conclusion
  • Opportunities for veterans and newcomers in virtual production
  • What’s next in virtual production?

Taught by

Noah Kadner

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