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Diez Pérez

Jesús

May

10–14

Year

2021

Working time: 5 days, 6 hours a day on-line × 9 parallel groups of 10–20 participants per group.

Introduction to Virtual Film Production

Workshop overview

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In this workshop, we will introduce Virtual Production and how it is changing the film industry, notoriously with the success of Disney's The Mandalorian. We will show the classic visual effects pipeline (based in postproduction), compared to the new methodology (based in preproduction) and how real-time technologies, like camera tracking and led panels, can help shoot final pixels directly on set. We will also see the advantages and disadvantages of green screen vs led panels and when it's best to use each. We will finish the workshop with some real examples, creating two projects from scratch: a virtual studio and a short scene with camera tracking. The workshop's goal is to introduce the students to this emerging new technology for film and TV, showing the current situation in the industry, the challenges, and some hands-on examples in a tutorial format.

 

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Materials and tools

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  • Unreal Engine

  • Free plugins for Unreal Engine

  • Free downloadable scenes and 3D objects

  • Optional: camera, capture card, greenscreen background

Workshop description

Schedule

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  • Monday
    Challenges faced by the film industry and the advent of real-time technology.

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  • Tuesday
    Visual effects based on preproduction and postproduction.

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  • Wednesday
    Tutorial. Raytracing and realistic render in real-time.

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  • Thursday
    Tutorial. Camera tracking and realtime compositing.

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  • Friday
    Tutorial. Virtual studio.
    Final review

​Jesús Diez Pérez

Jesús Diez Pérez is a Visual Effects Compositor Supervisor and Realtime Virtual Production specialist with experience in some of the best Visual Effects companies in the world: Weta (War for the Planet of the Apes, Avengers: Infinity Wars), Lucasfilm (Jurassic World), Method Studios (Cloud Atlas, Snowpiercer), Animal Logic, MPC and Aardman. He’s now developing projects related to Virtual Production, mainly fiction TV series and feature films, as well as training. He has also written, directed and produced several short films.

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