“This was an idea Sky Ferren and I dreamed up during #Megalopolis and thanks to the talented team at Lux Machina Consulting it became a reality.” Alex Coppedge
Witness the combination of a teaser for feature film “Long Live Dick Parker”, led by Alex Coppedge, Director, Writer, Executive Producer (Megalopolis, The Instigators, The Bride) combined with testing an all new Megapixel #Ghostframe pipeline (for those in the know: in inner frustrum only). Shot at the Lux Stage at Trilith Studios in harmonious partnership with Lux Machina Consulting.
Featuring R & D insight on advanced mathematics, controlling flickering in the frustrum, shooting 48 frames per second & consequently messing with motion blur, issues with running Ghostframe on a LED volume this large.. potentially changing the workshow of #VFX and #VirtualProduction as we know it!: starring Wesley Goins, Jason Davis, German Perl & last but no means least Hannah Schilsky.
Featuring production insight, as Cinematographer Nick Bowser working with Production Designer/ Producer Sky Ferren creates (physically AND virtually) an old tobacco farm in North Carolina. They built a physical set, where their actor had a place to live, but accentuated the set so it also lives simultaneously in the virtual world. The aim is to marry the traditional physical world with the new virtual tools, trying to make them as seemless as possible..but where they can’t be seemless: to use technology like Megapixel Ghostframe to have a Plan B in post.
Hannah, #UnrealEngine Technical Operator: “I built a blueprint that, based on the editor’s role and the render’s role, it would set the frustum to be blue screen on one cluster and the regular field of view on the other cluster. That way, we were able to swap back and forth on the processors to achieve having GhostFrame in just the frustum. After each take, I would push the shot down directly to Nuke as well (link/credit The Foundry).”
It’s all about collaborative teamwork. It’s all about the plan B. Hedge your bets! Get your inner geek on and learn up!
Read more in this Lux Machina interview with Alex and Sky here: https://lnkd.in/eQQEu62c
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Sweetwater Film & Entertainment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn03VyLkjHM
