Nuke Codex: Nodes Within Nodes – The Book on Nuke Compositing.“F*** yeah, let’s do it.” The creators of ‘Shapes’ banter about creative chemistry, good horror, and crafting brain gore from a grape.Helping Ben Affleck Get Away With Murder: Deep Water BTS Special FX Breakdown.Unity PR prize fight: Who won the summer for news that matters to VFX artists An intro to visual effects: ‘The Rough Cut’ post-production podcast hosts Crafty Apes to discuss “The art and business of VFX”.The question of future artistic integrity in Post: The pros and cons of Bruce Willis selling his likeness to be used with deepfake technology.Once we’re able to control the behavior of light between the virtual and practical environments and connect that interaction to the camera the illusion will be complete. Recreating artificially the way light looks in nature is a challenge artists have undertaken since the time of the great master painters and continues to this day. But getting the same sunset gradient on that’s the virtual background to match the lighting on the actors face, and then getting both of those elements to move synchronously is a challenge artists and technicians are still working to overcome. In a dystopian cyberpunk environment, the filmmakers have more freedom to make it up. The way practical lighting (the actual lighting units on the stage) interacts both with the actors and the environment is largely what helps sell the illusion. When trying to create a naturalistic, photoreal environment audiences are very familiar with, like the great outdoors, a classroom, even a living room, it’s a steeper hill to climb because subconsciously we’re all deploy acquainted with what those environments look and feel like. Unreal Engine and the other technologies used to create these impressive virtual backgrounds do really well when creating highly stylized environments, partly because there are plenty of assets floating around on the web, but also because lighting in them doesn’t have to match anything that actually exists. What, you ask, are some of these challenges? Well, it really boils down to one thing: reality. Lucky for us, the creatives leading the charge are all over it. But as with all cutting edge technology, there are still some kinks to work out. Being able to instantly change environments and have a camera track them in real time opens up a Pandora’s box (in a good way) of new opportunities for filmmakers. There’s no doubt about it, virtual production is a bonafide gamechanger.
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