You took the words right out of my mouth! The idea that the team were not in Tokyo but in Salford! I know I risk offending the good folks of Salford but it doesn't exactly have the same ring to it, compared to travelling away to anime world! I suppose the clue was there when Adam Petty turned up in the studio AFTER his return from Tokyo 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
I guess it makes more sense for the average viewer to know it's powered by the same thing that powers Fortnite, as they may not have heard of Unreal Engine.
BBC's Tokyo 2020 studio it was incredibly beautiful, we watched sports news with our family and could not even think that everything was so modern there.
Yeah I thought they were really out there until yesterday when they interviewed some Team GB medalists and said how was it like since they came back and thought what!!! Though I did have my suspicions about a week ago when they showed it getting dark in Tokyo when it was only about 5pm and thought that isn't right!!!
That show between linicker , that fool here walkerrrr have ruined Sports shows for People that love Sport ... fake sickening STAINS . They can NOT speak properly anymore . BACK to linicker he has Spat and Shate on Live Tv and still he gets away with it .
@@davidfewtrell3479 a stroke you say . Its nothing like a stroke. Iv had 2 of them . One killed me and the second I had while learning to walk again . Listening to these fools is closer to the STROKE. I spell there names wrong because these stains DON'T deserve to be on tv let alone get there names Right . As for the punctuation ...... My Bad .
Unreal Engine was also used for real time compositing for the huge wraparound LED screen wall used in _The Mandalorian_ in lieu of a conventional green screen, as all the shiny armour would have made traditional chromakey compositing a nightmare.
Have to appreciate the time and effort to put this in place, I’m guessing it works out cheaper to do it this way than the traditional way with hotels, studios etc. Also showing the power of the Unreal Engine 5 to do it live with no tearing across multiple cameras. Very good example and encouragement for a new generation of cinematographers and computer programmers that they have genuine opportunities ahead!
Pretty cool use of the tech, I'm glad Unreal Engine is getting used more outside the games industry. That being said, hire some more competent environment artists next time, the interior looks like a student piece. The tiling of the wood beams is super obvious, they haven't offset the texture when repeating the beams and there is no imperfections. Nothing in real life looks that 'perfect'. I think this could have looked a lot better and I expect future uses of this will eventually be nearly indistinguishable from real life except by a trained eye. I'm an environment artist and work in Unreal Engine for a living, so perhaps I'm in the minority of people who noticed this stuff, but I thought I'd leave the critique regardless.
I think we're already at a point where (for a mostly static environment) the current Unreal Engine can produce a nearly photoreal result - while UE5 is impressive there isn't anything Nanite or Lumen are doing that a virtual studio like this one would really _need_ that UE4 can't produce. But as you say, and as is often the case in gamedev anyway, the issue isn't the technology it's the art. I suspect a team of experienced AAA environment artists could take this exact setup BBC have created, and create something with noticeably higher production value without increasing any of the technical requirements.
Lovely to see that in the middle of all of the high tech at 2:21 is a relic of the 1950s. The base for the Jimmy Jib is a Vinten HP419 pedestal manufactured from 1956 until the 1970s
Lack of shadows on the runway gave it away, that and the fact that no one was complaining about the cost of flying presenters and guests halfway round the world, and setting up a state of the art studio on the roof of a skyscraper in downtown Tokyo. And did BBC pay royalties to the writers to the Ghost in The Shell soundtrack?
"...which are rendered in real-time by an incredibly powerful graphics system" Tell me you've got an RTX 3090 without telling me you've got an RTX 3090 😂
Not bad but the keying needed some work. There was rather a lot of spill from the screen on (I think) Alex’s arms and bleeding through Hazel’s hair. Overall pretty decent attempt, though.
I've been living in Tokyo 6 years and, while the tech here is impressive, the representation of Tokyo is more like downtown Shanghai (or a sci-fi manga)
@@brocq18 Copywriting and teaching English. There aren't a great many job options for foreigners in Japan (part of how the country is actually shooting itself in the economic foot)
I would've preferred a more simple but real studio with practical furniture & stuff. Maybe a few virtual elements but the way it is now looks to overboard & fake.
I thought the background was simply a picture of Tokyo. For me that would have been good enough with a normal studio; and some decent satellite linkups / video screens to people they're interviewing.
It took me a day or two to work out the background wasn't real. But I thought all those posts and beams were like a proper built set in a studio! Instead only the table and little square of parquet flooring are real!
I get making a studio that has a superimposed backdrop of Tokyo, for context. Yet what was quite odd was the way they had a clip showing this studio on top of a building. It’s nice to see Tokyo behind the presenters but why go to the effort of placing a fictitious building on top of another building?? Maybe the BBC could have saved money here and paid more for the rights to the Olympics?
Cool technology and all that but personally I'd rather the money had been spent on the rights to show more of the actual sport. The presenters could have been sat in a broom cupboard for all the difference it really makes, but some viewers seem to prefer style over substance.
Similar to the Sky British Lions Rugby tour studio which uses the stadia for it’s b/g’s. I sincerely hope this isn’t the future for Sports TV presentation. It’s an unpleasant environment to work in for any length of time.
I like it in general but the complete lack of shadows is what makes it look fake. Next olympics they'll probably have 4000 series graphics cards so who knows :D
Got to say I work in CGI and I was blown away by the quality of the BBC studio. I had to watch each evening. The design of the building is first class not even mentioning the whole system. Congrats on a fantastic job and truly game changing for the future of Live event coverage. 👏
Getting the perspective right from the different cameras which are moving, and all done live, is incredible. I also noticed the virtual world also takes inputs from the real world, like when a presenter should be partly behind a virtual object, it is rendered correctly.
@@slslbbn4096 nah... I do think the CCTV reports all the turth. Every other countries' TV stations report fake especially the US and UK who are independent and are not controlled by their democratically elected goverment. The chinese TV stations are controlled by the Chinese communist party, so they MUST report the TRUTH.
As a 3D artist I spotted it straight away, then wasn't so convinced, then was certain again, and then once one of the guests said "... here in Manchester...", I was like ...awww XD Top stuff!
I've never been so amazed and disappointed at the same time 😂
You took the words right out of my mouth! The idea that the team were not in Tokyo but in Salford! I know I risk offending the good folks of Salford but it doesn't exactly have the same ring to it, compared to travelling away to anime world! I suppose the clue was there when Adam Petty turned up in the studio AFTER his return from Tokyo 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂
It's Unreal Engine for those that are interested. It's absolutely mind blowing in its current form.
I guess it makes more sense for the average viewer to know it's powered by the same thing that powers Fortnite, as they may not have heard of Unreal Engine.
5 is truly next level
The production value has been absolutely incredible. It took me a few days to realise they’re not actually in Tokyo
Really? Wow.
Seriously?! 😂
Shame about the presenters
I only just realised today - think my eyes need testing again haha
Ikr same!
BBC's Tokyo 2020 studio it was incredibly beautiful, we watched sports news with our family and could not even think that everything was so modern there.
It's such old technology though, how are people so impressed by this.
Genuinely loved the CGI studio, well done to all those involved with it!
The disappointment in his voice when he said they were in Salford lmfao
I don’t blame him 🤣
They’re in by far the best bit of Salford he’d be a lot more disappointed if they were in ordsall
Yeah I thought they were really out there until yesterday when they interviewed some Team GB medalists and said how was it like since they came back and thought what!!! Though I did have my suspicions about a week ago when they showed it getting dark in Tokyo when it was only about 5pm and thought that isn't right!!!
So much crime there
Bruhhhh what
I was completely fooled to believe the studio was real. Simply stunning 🤩
This is a pain that MOTD fans went through about a year ago
That show between linicker , that fool here walkerrrr have ruined Sports shows for People that love Sport ... fake sickening STAINS . They can NOT speak properly anymore . BACK to linicker he has Spat and Shate on Live Tv and still he gets away with it .
Back to school you go David
@@davidlalor9464 Have you ever considered taking some English lessons because reading that felt like I was having a stroke.
@@davidfewtrell3479 a stroke you say . Its nothing like a stroke. Iv had 2 of them . One killed me and the second I had while learning to walk again . Listening to these fools is closer to the STROKE. I spell there names wrong because these stains DON'T deserve to be on tv let alone get there names Right . As for the punctuation ...... My Bad .
@@davidlalor9464 uh... what
For those people who are gamers but don't play Fortnite, he's talking about the Unreal Engine.
Yeah it's an odd way to say it as Fortnite is hardly the best example of unreal's capabilities
@@reddragon3132 I'm guessing they said Fortnite because 1. It's a household name and 2. They are both by Epic Games (Fortnite and Unreal Engjne).
FYI the Unreal Engine exists since 1995. It has nothing to do with Fortnite, except that Fortinite uses it, as hundreds of other games do.
Unreal Engine was also used for real time compositing for the huge wraparound LED screen wall used in _The Mandalorian_ in lieu of a conventional green screen, as all the shiny armour would have made traditional chromakey compositing a nightmare.
Have to appreciate the time and effort to put this in place, I’m guessing it works out cheaper to do it this way than the traditional way with hotels, studios etc. Also showing the power of the Unreal Engine 5 to do it live with no tearing across multiple cameras. Very good example and encouragement for a new generation of cinematographers and computer programmers that they have genuine opportunities ahead!
That studio needs to be winning all sorts of awards
Amazing!
See, this is why I've been talking a lot about Unreal Engine to you!
Hats off to the design and build team, great work.
It is incredibly clever green screen work. I've had to convince several people that the studio wasn't real and was CGI.
Those several people are complete idiots then.
I was taken away by this!!! Technology at some of its best… thanks for the honesty BBC.. I actually did enjoy your coverage
The bit that was the most fun for me was figuring out which bits of the set were real and which weren't.
Blooming brilliant...I thought they were all in Tokyo and wondered about the air-fares!!!
Sam Quek was a breath of fresh air on the beeb's coverage. Great presenter unlike someone I'll respectfully not mention.
Pretty cool use of the tech, I'm glad Unreal Engine is getting used more outside the games industry. That being said, hire some more competent environment artists next time, the interior looks like a student piece. The tiling of the wood beams is super obvious, they haven't offset the texture when repeating the beams and there is no imperfections. Nothing in real life looks that 'perfect'. I think this could have looked a lot better and I expect future uses of this will eventually be nearly indistinguishable from real life except by a trained eye. I'm an environment artist and work in Unreal Engine for a living, so perhaps I'm in the minority of people who noticed this stuff, but I thought I'd leave the critique regardless.
I thought so too, it's impressive what they have done but it's still a long shot from perfect.
I think we're already at a point where (for a mostly static environment) the current Unreal Engine can produce a nearly photoreal result - while UE5 is impressive there isn't anything Nanite or Lumen are doing that a virtual studio like this one would really _need_ that UE4 can't produce. But as you say, and as is often the case in gamedev anyway, the issue isn't the technology it's the art. I suspect a team of experienced AAA environment artists could take this exact setup BBC have created, and create something with noticeably higher production value without increasing any of the technical requirements.
@@KillahMate Completely agree.
Lovely to see that in the middle of all of the high tech at 2:21 is a relic of the 1950s. The base for the Jimmy Jib is a Vinten HP419 pedestal manufactured from 1956 until the 1970s
Id build a real version as a house if i had the money, looks stunning
Love this! Every time I watch the Olympics I've been wondering where they are and how its done.
Genuinely brilliant!
Nice, now replicate the interior of the Death Star please.
*Thank you! Very few media org. will show us behind the scenes*
Fabulous!
Technology, wonderful!
Lack of shadows on the runway gave it away, that and the fact that no one was complaining about the cost of flying presenters and guests halfway round the world, and setting up a state of the art studio on the roof of a skyscraper in downtown Tokyo.
And did BBC pay royalties to the writers to the Ghost in The Shell soundtrack?
Figured it must have been UE4. Great technical achievement
From Tokyo the games of the 32nd Olympiad coverage on the BBC
Really interesting video! Nice to see how it's make
Stunning, even the fish are fake. So clever. I love it. Congrats to the BBC.
Great work BBC
"...which are rendered in real-time by an incredibly powerful graphics system"
Tell me you've got an RTX 3090 without telling me you've got an RTX 3090 😂
Its a studio in Salford - but its green.
"We'll see (most of you) soon!" -- sounds like a threat! 😉
Amazing technology
Gorgeous!!
Could we get one of the backgrounds for Teams or Zoom meetings?
waouh...brilliant...!
Amazing 👏🏿
Not bad but the keying needed some work. There was rather a lot of spill from the screen on (I think) Alex’s arms and bleeding through Hazel’s hair. Overall pretty decent attempt, though.
amazing!!! 🔥🔥🔥
The engine is the Unreal Engine. Download it and try it out for yourself! :D
Unreal engine = Beast
🇬🇧🙋🏾♀️Oh my days 🤯🤯🤯👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I've been living in Tokyo 6 years and, while the tech here is impressive, the representation of Tokyo is more like downtown Shanghai (or a sci-fi manga)
Out of curiosity, what do you do in Tokyo for work?
@@brocq18 Copywriting and teaching English. There aren't a great many job options for foreigners in Japan (part of how the country is actually shooting itself in the economic foot)
Sam’s pretty good at presenting considering she relatively new to it 👍🏻
"We'll see *MOST* of you soon." Clever. Very clever haha
What was clever?
@@NeoJackBauer That most people will survive Covid.
I would have slowly changed the background buildings every broadcast to see if people would notice
TIME TO UPDATE THE BBC BREAKFAST STUDIO LIKE THIS !
Because BBC Studio will have back to its normality in time for Paris 2024 Olympics to be broadcast from Paris.
I did wonder. Clever stuff.
Very cool
Can't wait to see the climbing event near that life-sized transformers statue
Does anyone know what kind of green material they used ?
Great video
Powered by unreal engine 4 or 5?
I would've preferred a more simple but real studio with practical furniture & stuff. Maybe a few virtual elements but the way it is now looks to overboard & fake.
Completely agree
I thought the background was simply a picture of Tokyo. For me that would have been good enough with a normal studio; and some decent satellite linkups / video screens to people they're interviewing.
Never in any doubt that this was green screen!
I'm surprised by the comments saying it was good, it's been annoying me how bad it looks. I would have rather they just used an ordinary studio.
Yeah it's obviously fake. The lighting gives it away. These fake studios are a blight of modern television.
It took me a day or two to work out the background wasn't real. But I thought all those posts and beams were like a proper built set in a studio! Instead only the table and little square of parquet flooring are real!
It would have been hilarious if they did wear green all the time.
Awesome
Amazing 🤔😳
How bad is your TV to think they are in Japan?
Brilliant demonstration of BBC technology at work.
Bit worrying about how we can believe in a vitrual world as reality though!!
cool amazing
Mentions Fortnite
12 year olds: 👁👄👁
I get making a studio that has a superimposed backdrop of Tokyo, for context. Yet what was quite odd was the way they had a clip showing this studio on top of a building. It’s nice to see Tokyo behind the presenters but why go to the effort of placing a fictitious building on top of another building?? Maybe the BBC could have saved money here and paid more for the rights to the Olympics?
Si when you interview someone on bbc we could see it when we watch it but the people that work there can’t? And they only see invisible
Had me fooled!
This is what your licence fee pays for,better with virtual presenters
Cool technology and all that but personally I'd rather the money had been spent on the rights to show more of the actual sport. The presenters could have been sat in a broom cupboard for all the difference it really makes, but some viewers seem to prefer style over substance.
Knew it looked way too good
Similar to the Sky British Lions Rugby tour studio which uses the stadia for it’s b/g’s. I sincerely hope this isn’t the future for Sports TV presentation. It’s an unpleasant environment to work in for any length of time.
_Cat transcendence meme_ x100
If only you could snap your fingers and reveal the payrolls of the think tank guest you keep talking to.
Can't believe ppl assumed the studio was real.. seriously
I didn’t believe the studio is real but I thought they would at least be in Tokyo
I guess what’s the difference between a green screene there and one in the UK
Lmao that green screen
That's amazing totally fooled me.
1:25 - the presenters are holograms confirmed
Illusions shattered. Thought there was something fishy(!!) when the fish were swimming in unison.
They could have been doing literal synchronised swimming
Sam os still fit
2:36 so that's where all the 3090s went
I want my TV license money back 🤨😄
😂 as if it was a secret, you could see a mile off it was green screen
Likely Unreal Engine 4
👌🏾
Why have all the channels started to take like they are spitting ,, they want to take the accent out of Every One .
I'm really surprised at how the BBC puts their budget to good use, making their own metaverse
I like it in general but the complete lack of shadows is what makes it look fake. Next olympics they'll probably have 4000 series graphics cards so who knows :D
Got to say I work in CGI and I was blown away by the quality of the BBC studio. I had to watch each evening. The design of the building is first class not even mentioning the whole system. Congrats on a fantastic job and truly game changing for the future of Live event coverage. 👏
Getting the perspective right from the different cameras which are moving, and all done live, is incredible. I also noticed the virtual world also takes inputs from the real world, like when a presenter should be partly behind a virtual object, it is rendered correctly.
I love the great live broadcasting effects that really fools me with the perfect perspective as the camera moves around.
Setting up a studio like this seems much more eco-friendly and less wasteful of resources whilst also looking pretty cool - fair play!
Well done BBC for sharing this.
Ah the BBC: creating fakenews and fostering racial hatred against the Chinese just like how Goebbels used to against the Je ws
@@slslbbn4096 yes, and the communist chinese one party goverment controlled CCTV tells and reports you everything turth.
@@simonorange4191 nah not really. But the BBC is no different
@@slslbbn4096 nah... I do think the CCTV reports all the turth. Every other countries' TV stations report fake especially the US and UK who are independent and are not controlled by their democratically elected goverment. The chinese TV stations are controlled by the Chinese communist party, so they MUST report the TRUTH.
@@simonorange4191 riiiiiight 🤦♂️
BBC are class when it comes to background CGI and intros, true visual experts.
They're class at hiring and protecting nonces
They're great at triggering the insecure ^^
They are class when it comes to lying in order to secure interviews with royalty too
Yeah they were great at hiding Jimmy Saville groping young girls
@@recall2880 I think that Jimmy did a bit more than that. Visiting kids wards in hospitals late at night etc people just turned a blind eye.
As a 3D artist I spotted it straight away, then wasn't so convinced, then was certain again, and then once one of the guests said "... here in Manchester...", I was like ...awww XD Top stuff!
So they could be surrounded by anime girls and they choose not to? How uncultured of you
I genuinely was thinking that table is really bad CGI 😂
The fish are good tho
It's bad enough!
i wanted to know if the three pieces fit into each other
Same 😅
It’s a truly great CGI set. Beautifully designed
Happy that the table is real...great design :) .