But in terms of previous experience, no, nothing like that. I think we were both aware of it and we knew that there was potential, we were seeing tutorials pop up and I thought, “oh this is something that is achievable”. How would you qualify your previous experience with virtual cinematography? And did you have any experience at all with real-time filmmaking? What drove you to the Unreal Engine? Though you both had some experience working with VFX: you mentioned Blender and you also mentioned working with Cine Tracer. The fact that you’re both cinematographers getting into virtual production is an interesting part of the project. “Let’s put this here, let’s wrap that light, let’s bring up the background”, we could play around like that as if we were on set. We could light things like we would on set. With Nvidia’s ray tracing coming along, we both bought 2080 Tis (I specifically bought one for this project), and that kind of blew us away: how the shadows fell off, how soft we could get them, using reflections, using bounced lighting, GI, all of that in real-time, at a photo accurate level, was mind blowing. There was something there but it wasn’t quite photo accurate yet in terms of how close to reality it was for lighting. Yeah, just to jump off that… I knew Blender, I was doing some stuff in Cinema4D and I even did some stuff in Cine Tracer, which is Matt Workman’s previz software. We could see our lighting right away, which as cinematographers is crucial. We kept on hearing about real-time, we had this previous knowledge of other render engines that weren’t real-time, and so that was super interesting to us. I was like “whoa, I have no assets!” and this project was an opportunity to have high quality, production-ready assets.Īs cinematographers, one of the things we talked about going into this is that we needed to figure out lighting. Thanks Alvaro! As for how we did it… well, we knew we couldn’t just learn everything about it, and I had just barely installed the Unreal Engine. How did you feel about going into Nemosyne as your first virtual production project and winning the whole thing? How did you start? Welcome to both of you and thank you for joining us today! And congratulations on winning the Real-Time Shorts Challenge. What advice would you give to live action cinematographers interested in virtual production with the Unreal Engine?Ĭreating a real-time short in the Unreal Engine: getting started.Will virtual production change the way we write movies?.How did this first virtual production go?.

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