How we made a Comedy Series for the BBC using Virtual Production
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- This video is a quick overview of how we got into Virtual Production and some things we learnt along the way.
Age of Outrage is the BBC Wales comedy series we made - you can see it on BBC iPlayer in the UK:
www.bbc.co.uk/...
After we finished the series, we were helped to do more research into Virtual Production by Clwstwr, who support innovation in the tech sector in Wales:
clwstwr.org.uk/
Some of the clever people we learnt from on TH-cam:
Richard Frantzén, Matt Workman (Cinematography Database), Aiden Wilson, Greg Corson, Pixel Prof.
It’s incredibly helpful seeing companies starting at square 1 and seeing them take each step. Congratulations on getting your series made, looking forward to seeing more!
Exactly. Really inspiring
Thanks!
This is really incredible, i'd love to hear more about the education behind pairing virtual production and small budget filming, it's pretty amazing
The TH-cam gods sent me here. This is freakin amazing. I've been looking for alternatives to on-set filming for forever. I can't animate or draw, but I can definitely act like an idiot in front of a greenscreen.
Brilliant video, you perfectly captured the frustations a lot of people had at the beggining of the lockdown and trying to learn virtual production on the fly, failing a lot on the way.
Perhaps the next step would be to invest in some hue-controllable lights, to make compositing easier!
I recently did a very low-budget music video where I built two walls of LED-strips and used pixel-mapping to get lighting which matched a rear-projected background. It really sold the immersion. So I'm sure something similar might be able to work for them too.
Yes but Hue Lights arent really the key here.
I imagine that soon the lights will communicate with the system and set the right hue automatically (if it's not already possible).
@@undergroundo that's what Martin Jones just said. Pixel mapping on the led lights.
I used to be in this field then I quit for 4 years from my mental health. I was too scared to back to this field again. Now after your inspiration which you made things so possible... thanks dude
Love it! Thanks for the shout-out!
Thanks dear god, I struck gold today ! Huge love and respect to you guys for Sharing this !
Wonderful insight! Thanks for sharing!!!
Incredible achievement. I'm sure you've got lots of other things to do (that help you pay the bills), but a tutorial on how you did it would be fantastic. Or even a list of the links you found most hopeful.
Small and clever productions is an extremely accurate name 😂
Thanks for also sharing some timings, which gives a better feeling for how long a start in virtual production really takes.
This is incredible Phillip thanks
It all came together with the last gritty shot with the blue cast on the talents face - brilliant!
Inspiring and cool!
And Jim Henson was revolutionizing the virtual production studio way back in 1987 for The Storyteller, and in 1989 for The Jim Henson Hour. Kind of amazing how far we've come in making the tech smaller-better-faster-cheaper, but the results from using chroma screen look exactly the same today, but in 4K. Volumetric studios are the best virtual ones, as rear projection work has always been better than chroma screens, and now we're taking it further with video walls and tech that tracks the camera in near real-time. Very exciting stuff! Thanks for this generous BTS video!
Woa… ok I just clicked into it and was Shazaming the intro music and noticed only on the green fade over that this was already VP. Crazy feeling.
The jittering is absolutely not a limitation of the VR system. I don't know what caused this in your case, but you can definitely get a smooth image with the Vive tracker on your camera.
Anyway, this was terrific! Virtual Production evolves so quickly, it's astounding! Last year we had to manually calibrate the camera, now we have a simple, almost automatic calibration system.
Here's a few advice :
- Virtual Production is even more interesting when you move the camera. For that, you need to make sure, in the UE scene, that the virtual screen (the rectangle on which you project the actor) keeps facing the camera. That way you can shoot scenes with a moving camera, instead of just fixed shots.
- You can get shadows automatically with the proper material settings on the virtual screen. No need to put it on each frame manually! The limitation to that though is the shadow is projecting a 2D surface, so there's an angle at which point it doesn't feel like the natural shadow anymore ; but that's just a limitation to keep in mind when working on the lights! Aside from that, you get real-time accurate shadows.
That's way more impressive than I initially thought before clicking on the video. Going to learn more about this stuff !!
This video just changed my life
I don't know how I came across this but you guys are amazing for having made such a detailed, comprehensive BTS on this process. I shot my first VP commercial last year and enjoyed it.
I jump on my side to the terrific but exciting VR world in France. Great job guys
I love this showing of the process!
Thanks a bunch for the video, really amazing! I want to dabble in such productions myself, but it'll still be a while until I can do so
This is simply Great! Thank you for sharing your journey!!!
Thanks for posting. Really generous of you 💗
Really fascinating. They say you should never let daylight in on magic, but I'm grateful! We use straight CSO / chromakey for our training programs but this is truly astonishing! Congratulations!
Congrats guys!
So much problem solving. Wonderful storytelling. Thank you for inspiring and showing what’s possible
Thanks for the video. Very informative
Really good video. One very cheap option for camera matching is to control the real camera with the virtual camera. A pan and tilt on a tripod controlled with an arduino uno then mapped to the scene camera is simple but effective, certainly as a rig to "play with" as a learning exercise. I use Blender and OBS studio.
A brilliant overview of Virtual Production…. and interesting real world example.
Many thanks for the explanations …
Love this! I stream VR games in mixed reality, and do sketches too. The fact the tech is colliding in so many people's minds is brilliant. Glad production tools are catching up.
Realising the 3080 Ti graphics card in my machine was powerful enough to do something like Mando, and in real time, was a game changer.
Tundra are making a big tracker that is designed to replace the Vive one for virtual production and Vive are working on some hardware to support this stuff too. Exciting time to be into VR tech!
This was amazing and so insightful!! Thank you so much for sharing! I'm based up in the North East of England and love watching and seeing content like this. Hope to one day do EPK in film and TV and so seeing all of your BTS is really awesome and inspiring. Keep up the great work and will definitely check out your series on iplayer! :D
Thank you very much for sharing!!!
What a time to be alive! Can't wait to be talking to some friends about a Tv show in 10 years, and i'm just like " Oh ya Them? I saw how they started " :D
Brilliant!
So awesome!! And inspiring. Bravo!! Hello from Melbourne, Australia 🤙
Amazing!
this video explained omse concepts abot virtual production much better than others.
Really impressive!
Well done guys. Fun to watch and the tracker hint is nice too.
Cheers
Excellent stuff, was very interesting to see the BTS and see a step by step process. Cheers for sharing
thank you very much for sharing this. good luck with your show.
This is amazing! Must be a lot of fun once you got it all worked out.
Amazing....👍
Amazing job, wouldn’t it be cool to have a character in animation in this interact with a real one like this?
This is something Disney (and the team behind Lazy Town too!) has been doing for a few years now. Off the top of my head, the Muppet crew uses a mocap puppet rig in "Earth to Ned" that they use to drive a CG character in Unreal that gets comped into a scene with real actors. That way they can get all the eyecandy of CG animation with the spontaneity of their classic puppetry.
Awesome you have a team like this
Very nice job. Thank you for sharing.
Really cool!
Thanks for this super video! There's plenty of advices (maybe all xD) to start working in virtual production from scratches eheh
You should get some low res but bright LED Panels with diffusion on them, that are linked to live feeds of virtual cameras so that you get some interactive lighting. Ian Hubert talked about similar stuff on his Patreon a while ago.
Excellent. I love seeing problems solved on a budget.
This is fantastic! I'm about to make the jump back into live action and am really eager to get my head around Unreal 5 in an FX context. It would be great to be able to have comedy sketches having access to real-time FX in their scenes, hell even if it's as cheesy as South Park using live action explosions in the scenes there could be great comedy in it.
Very well done, and very useful information. Thanks for sharing
this is soo cool. Hats off to you gents. Love this
Underrated
amazing
Super cool stuff
This was great guys! I want to do this myself (in Canada). Thanks for sharing your process.
Very cool!
Thanks for sharing! Really inspiring.
Inspiring 🙏
Very interested to see more of this kind of content
I'm sure that virtual production is the future. Technologies like The Volume as well as use of Unreal Engine like you've done so here. They're exciting times we live in!
That's really cool! Makes me want to play around with some stuff!
This is an amazing use of virtual reality!
Brilliant video, excellent work, really interesting!
Wow. Incredible growth
awesome overview, thanks so much for this :)
this is so inspiring
Amazing 👏. Just wow
Awesome
Absolutely love this - fantastic work and it's great to see how you learned and improved your techniques as you went along. Can't wait to see more from you :)
VERY informative. Thanks for the insight ❤
This is great, thanks for sharing.
Great work guys!!!
Loved everything about this video, very informative and entertaining. Cheers.
U also happy 2 share knowledge 💪❤
This is truly amazing!
Awesome video and I loved seeing how you worked things out on a small budget with a great result, thanks for sharing!
Really cool and inspiring!
Thanks for sharing!
The movement of the tripod caught me off guard.
That incredible ❤️
Very very inspiring. Thanks for sharing
Just a suggestion, but whilst robot arms are indeed expensive, there are still several good motorized sliders available (even a couple that support the Mini Pro) for reasonable pricing.
that is pretty cool - thanks for sharing! Super interesting
it's really useful thank you , will have a lot to ask later
Incredible!
Great work guys 👍
This is incredible !!
Inspirational
Thanks for this video, this is really cool to see how you progressed!
Great video, thanks for sharing and congratulations on the results!
This is priceless
Amazing work. And you’re only going to get better from here!!!
I want more!!! Show me how I can start today. Just like you all started. Or make a video on what you think the next tech step you think would need to be.
Part 2 please!