The Future of Cinema: Epic Games Gave Us an In-Depth Tour of The Volume (Their Virtual Set Tech)
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- Epic Games invited IGN's Ben and Jeffrey to take a tour of their cutting-edge virtual set they call The Volume, the same technology used to film The Mandalorian. Check it out as we get a thorough tour of this incredible tech from Epic Games ICVFX Stage Operator Mike Sill.
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That torch light tracking is fascinating. Really want to get into virtual production.
Yeah that was amazing.
Correct, it is the future mate
This stuff is the best. Especially for the performers. Being able to see the world in realtime vs a green/blue screen really helps them get into and interact as if they are in the environment. The performance level just goes up for them. And for the directors they get to see their vision in real time instead of just post. Post is now pre. Love it.
yeah now Ian McKellan can stop crying
Post is the new pre. Love that my guy! 👍😂
It's a step forward but unless you already have all the 3D assets pre made and ready for the pre production you are still going to be suffering that technical debt to make those assets.
At least with Quixel Megascans and Metahuman they will be able to use stand in assets for the preview stage and get the kinks out before they start hairing away at asset production.
there is no atmosphere to the scene though. No dust outside in the air
Love how gaming tech is bleeding over to film and television
as it should be, videogames seem to have pushed the technology faster and farther than those 2.
When video games make more money than all other forms of media combined
It's not a gaming tech, it's just tech.
@@gerardoguaran6356 Whats pushing this tech? Even more and more demanding games and ideas! So its Gaming Tech.
@@JackieWelles to assume that videogames necessarily require technological advances is to limit their discursive and narrative capacity, what actually drives the technological movement are the laws and trends of the market, in a few words: capitalism.
It's crazy how the dawn of cinema was essentially stage recording and now we're coming full circle thanks to astounding technology.
The new technology makes it look cheap and fake.
@@bighands69 Except it doesn't. 🤔
@@RaXXha while the tech is really cool and jawdropping, RJ is right tho. This makes films disgusting to look at. Filming on location will always be Better.
@@diollinebranderson6553Filming on such a stage is still better than filming in front of a green screen. Of course filming on location will always look the best
@@ici123-r2e nah on this stage it looks faker than green screen. A result of that would be a show that feels compact. It won't feel open. Even though you can see the set it in an open desert, you can still obviously tell it's fake an shot in a warehouse. Just compare any desert scene in the recent star wars show to the one in A New Hope at the beginning
Unreal is making everything look real and they are truly Epic!❤
Seems like this engine will really bring unity to cinema and gaming
Any source?
@@DevranUenal No, Source can’t do this yet.
@@nem0meimpunel8cessit seems like you wooshed yourself
@@nem0meimpunel8cessit The joke went right above your head and slapped you in the neck…
Just imagine how low budget productions or independent cinema will glow up with this technology to look closer and closer to big budget movies with green screens everywhere.
It all looks cheap and looks tacky as well.
yeah the future is bright with this technology advancing
@@bighands69 nah dude this is advancing , new technology it’s always like that let’s see in 10 years …
I’m happy that tech for games has advanced to the point where there are more jobs for folks on a team.
if anything the jobs will be decreasing.
@@SamosIMP how lmao, the amount of people you'd need for film increase with this. you still have all the roles in a film traditionally but now you could include developers alongside the normal visual fx artists.
@@Extremexboxplayer all the small businesses that will be left out of the loop when scenes are shot on location? that impact is huge.
Dude said this was $400k. Imagine this replicated inside a cube with a projection on all walls and different objects you can interact with other than flashlight like guns. It would be like VR without the goggles.
It would be like VR without VR, genius!
non 3D is boring
And VR without 3D. So less immersive.
It would be VR without the V! GENIUS!
literally the Holodeck From star trek lol
whats most amazing to me is how they are rendering such detailed scenes, IN REAL TIME.
This was a fantastic demo. Absolutely ridiculous how far gaming and gaming technology has come.
Reminds me of the set of 1899. Y'all should see the behind the seems of 1899. Very cool set overall.
And so sad it was cancelled.
This tech is really amazing but in shows like the Book of Boba Fett/The Mandalorian/Obi-Wan. There’s a lot of Volume used scenes that feel like the characters are in a diorama or a stage rather than a lived in environment. Maybe they just haven’t utilized it in the most beneficial way. Still a really awesome advancement regardless though.
It just looks inferior to real environments using 35mm film.
Epic and Unreal they are truly doing unreal things
When they called it "Unreal" back in the day, they nailed the name. It's mind blowing how far the engine has come.
This with VR tech would be amazing. Can't wait til the next 20 years
There's actually been a number of productions that have made use of VR! The director being able to check out a virtual set using a VR headset is a VERY useful tool!
Glad you think we have 20 years! Let's go!
Gaming and Cinema, one of the best tech collab ever.
You can tell this dude "loves" his job, and talking about it! Love to see it!
Now this is immersivity that can be enjoyed comfortably. Imagine it be used for indoor digital tourism...
The volume is awesome technology but film studios should not completely depend on this. The sense of depth and scope is lost. Kenobi vs Andor proves this while The Batman shows how it should be used.
The Batman had similar issues, but to smaller extent. Felt stagey on several occasions.
That can be solved easily when transparent displays become mainstream in 10 years via rotoscoping.
Andor used a lot of real locations and didn't feel at all like it was on a soundstage, unlike Kenobi
This tech is garbage, and continues the path of unimaginative film making.
They can dial in depth of field with this as well.
That flashlight is spectacular
If this would have a sort movable floor or something the camera could also move more freely. That would be totally bonkers!
they did that on 1899! tv show it was amazing!
How about a real floor with real cameras and not using CCTV production values.
@@bighands69 what do you mean? Real cameras and real floor? what are you talking about?
This is a wonderful advancement
2022 a big hop into to the future
This is very interesting tech. It looks fantasic for grand vistas. I'm sure down the road they will work on the environments to look less static and sterile. Much like in old star wars movies where extras would do things in the background (move boxes,walk around, inspect things etc.)
Filming at a Real Location makes it so much better because it creates a experience like no other makes the character feel like they are there.
but need to 3d render it
sure but production companies think about profits,they dont give a eff about what actors feel.
Yes, these volume stages help with costs but make the movie less immersive
@@sav145 Exsctly and filming on location sometimes earns the production a rather handsome rebate. It costs more to digitally shoot with CGI than actual location setsm
Obviously this is for when you can’t create a real set or visit a location or If your movie is in a more fantastical/fictional setting
6:00 screen really tricked me, so well done
We want this for VR Production! ✌️😊
Disney own several larger 360 degrees (including the floor) of The Volume walls in their soundstages all over the world.
yes
Disney doesn’t use UE anymore, they have their own engine for The Volume now.
@@astronotics531Actually, this is many steps up from what ILM was doing with regards to virtual sets.
@@astronotics531 That's incorrect. StageCraft still uses Unreal, but the final renderer uses their inhouse Helios.
Yeah, no. Disney does not own that many sets of this calibre "all over the world"
Nothing beats real sets and real locations in film. Your eyes might not notice the difference, but your brain does.
Almost all of The Mandalorian was filmed this way. Jon Favreau was one of the first directors to go all in on this type of filming.
What they did on set was have almost a 360 screen of this tech-then they filled the floor with real props. It looked so real that actors would walk into the screen sometimes haha.
The screen in mandalorian was just a big 360 tv with a 2nd video. This is more like a video game render. Everything in the screen is 3d model not a video
And that’s why that show is forgettable - like all other Star Wars.
How is the actual screen made? Is it projection from somewhere or actual massive lcd screens?
The latter.
Damn, GoT caught a stray in this video 😂 And it was absolutely deserved lol.
If anyone saw the recent Mandalorian episode, that was mostly this. Fantastic tech.
Wait, you know what this reminds me of?! When car guys and journalist get together on a track day to lap the hottest hypercar or racecar (yes hypercar not supercar) fresh of the factory line.
Well this reminds me of the holodeck in Star Trek Enterprise
That flashlight thing is epic
Is that a pun?
Amazing!
We now have "moving (motion capable) sets". Or should we say Mo'sets 💡😉
It would be very nice to invent an image stabilizer for those who recorded the video
brings new meaning to the whole world's a stage.
Insane stuff
I’m curious what the pixel density is on these screens
The only missing component is making this environment as bright as daylight, I.e the screens, this way you would capture actual lens artifacts that were affected by the screen
This is insane. So cool.
what an amazing invention!
Amazing when utilised correctly. Please note we don't want empty feeling "sets" like in some of the star wars shows
It's best when it's used to extend or enhance real locations or physical sets. It's essentially just a really advanced green-screen.
The Oblivion started it. The Mandalorian made Hollywood adopted it
That's amazing, it must be better for the actors to be able to see the world in real time.
🤩..IT JUST NEEDS FULL CIRCLE ROUND DISPLAY SO LIGHTING CAN MATCHED IN EVERY SHOT...THEN THIS TECHNOLOGY WILL BE PERFECT
Having worked in movies, saying "we've put this very professionally with zipties and ducttape" sounds *exactly* like how most filmmaking is done.
After 25890 years ign finally decides to do real gaming journalism.
The Volume was created by ILM, not Epic Games.
Finally someone cultured
With Epic's unreal engine. The Volume has always been UE.
Using unreal engine you dumbass
ILM Actually collaborated with epic in order to design it because it would be obsolete without programs like blender & unreal.. so your comment is somewhat debatable
Rich person VR. (For clarification, this is a compliment. It's very exciting tech). (Now for fun, imagine it with sci-fi level “hard light” magic. And what we can do with that).
So basically the concept behind the iconic Matrix vfx shot, except now we can do it practically lol.
This is like Doug Trumbull detailing his matte painting techniques to Ridley Scott for Blade Runner, or Stanley Kubrick ofc!
Toho should consider using this for their next Godzilla film
Insane tech man 🔥🔥
Imagine been inside a cylindrical dome where you can walk on the spot. The walls are high reflective projection screens and behind you at all times is a drone equipped with one of these cameras with eye tracking that projects wherever you are looking. As close to a holodeck as we will get for now.,
Honestly this is awsome but you still cant beat real locations, but this does benifit the actors who are performing as they will no longer be working with a dull green screen.
Hope they put the same effort for their EGS Launcher
Genuinely magical!
Really amazing
We're getting closer day by day to a VRMMORPG
It looks so real that it almost seems unimpressive !!!
So, can you make 3D movies with this 2D background? So capturing the actors in 3D (2 camera's for the left and right eye) and replace the curved 2D background with the original 3D background as used in Unreal?
this is pretty brilliant.
This is truly the beginning of the "holo deck" on star trek - next generation!
the power of realtime rendering
There isn't such a thing called Digital Space. Virtual, damn it.
A complete mindf**k camera
So the system is rendering only the computed backdrop to the camera? But with a subject in shot doesn’t that mean there are reflections from the out-of-shot background that won’t be accurate? And can the background handle multiple cameras capturing the scene at the same time?
Is this a competitor to Disney's Stage Craft or the same thing? The flashlight's real-time illumination definitely seems like an evolution of the tech at the very least.
This is the same program.
It's all Unreal Engine. And most definitely the future of multimedia content creation (namely film, games, VR/AR etc.) That engine is an unstoppable beast.
StageCraft was created with Unreal Engine. ILM has now also created it's own proprietary cinema engine called Helios. StageCraft can use both.
Please bring CorridorCrew there! they would make some great content
You can color correct the poopoo out of it all day you want, the final shots are still looking like a high budget 90s FMV production though. It's been bugging audiences for decades now how artificial many virtual sets look, it's not like going real time with a game engine suddenly changes it all for the better on the looksies.
This feels like an answer to a question that has not been asked, nor needs to be asked as there is no current issue with the methods being used. Nothing will ever beat a real set or filming on location (especially when said location gets your production a rebate).
Are you like 12? A child shouldn’t comment. Listening should be your priority for now. If MONEY and BUDGET isn’t a question worth answering in your world, you should wait to move out of parents house before commenting on real world problems dude 😂
This is significantly better than green screens, not only for actors but for matching lighting and several other improvements.
You can tell when someone has a pea-brain. When you have infinite location options at your fingertips, why go to a real location and sweat?
This is incredible!
Incredible
Everyone has fantasys that made to be real.. like you into it old and young
Ben is so funny! We love to see ben!
UNREAL ENGINE 5 BABY!! They just need to be careful using LED volume because most of the sh*t im seeing with it look bad lol
Bad filmmaking is bad filmmaking no matter how fancy your tech is. This is more a return to old soundstages but with infinitely more flexibility. But yes it's still up to the artists and craftsmen to sell the illusion.
Guess stage props are slowly becoming a thing of the past
Can someone call up Zack and have him make the metaverse with Unreal Engine?
His metaverse is like walking into Lago land.
It's awesome technology!
Schönes Hemd hat der Kameraman an. Wofür stehen noch mal diese Symbole ?
Incredible. 💚♥️
Is this in the US or Canada? Are they showcasing this technology at any events or expos in london?
The technology is very impressive but just like green-screen it should only be used to enhance real sets not entirely replace them.
Yes that's my thought too. Real locations practical effects is the way to go. It's the harder way but in the end it's the better one.
When can this be commercialized for home theater use?
they are getting closer to making a Holodeck
this makes me think we might be in a simulation lol
It’s like an irl HDRI
Damn....This is insane.
Is this how they going to continue visiting other planets in space and discover new ones
This is so freaking cool
That's exciting. And scary. And fun.
Imagine recording here some Mixed Reality videos playing Beat Saber for example
the future of cinema without a rec709 lut put on a timeline. gracious.
epic games guy is wearing a shirt with pirate logo, he supports :D
The big problem is can't show the ground esp with moving camera.
fuckin the beginning of the star trek holodeck
Incredible.
This is a corridor digital video waiting to happen lmao
Future is Now! 💯