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#VIRTUAL VIEWFINDER SOFTWARE#
This is a work in progress intended to illustrate recent advancements in graphics hardware and software capabilities. This teaser was presented as part of a tech demo at Nvidia's GTC conference March 25, 2014. Here are some production notes from the video:ĬONSTRUCT is a Sci-Fi short film advancing the art of filmmaking, VFX and virtual production. This is fascinating stuff, and has the potential to revolutionise the way we make films. Have a look at the trailer for the film itself, followed by the Behind The Scenes video, which explains it all. Now, you just need one, and some powerful Nvidia graphics cards.
Only a year or two ago, to achieve this, you’d have needed racks of computers.
#VIRTUAL VIEWFINDER FULL#
If you want to see what a scene will look like, you can “pause” the action and it will render quickly to full resolution. What you see in the viewfinder is pretty low resolution. Except that the image you’ll see is not one of the ball-actors in their odd-looking costumes, but the “finished” scene, complete with rendered characters and backgrounds. You can move around the set, with a device that looks a bit like a camera, and which has a viewing screen that behaves a bit like a camera’s viewfinder. You can probably learn to do without it (which is what directors of films using motion capture have had to do up to now) but to stay “in the moment”, surely it would be better to use something that looks and behaves like a camera in the first place? A device that looks like a camera Not having this facility is a big disadvantage. Because at least they give you some idea of what the scene will look like from your chosen viewpoint. Which is a problem if you’re a director that’s used to using them. The whole point of the exercise being that their slightly exaggerated movements can be accurately recorded and then applied to fully-detailed 3D models, which will then move according to the original actors’ motions.Īnd there are indeed no cameras. You know the sort of thing: athletic, toned individuals wearing slightly silly-looking costumes festooned with white balls. Well, actually there are actors, but they wear motion capture suits. Imagine a world where there are no cameras and there are no actors.
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