Filmmakers Tim Cole and Alexandru Popescu won the first-ever Unreal Engine Short Film Challenge. Here's how they did it. When thinking about the future of filmmaking and what the production process could look like, several things come to mind: higher resolution, wider color gamuts, HDR, cloud-based file transfers straight from set, and augmented reality. But workflows are already much more sophisticated than that today. When the original Avatar came out, the attention went to the innovative 3D technology used to film the actors. Since, we've seen Spielberg use VR in Ready Player One, Scorsese de-aging actors for The Irishman, and dozens of projects from Rogue One to The Mandalorian using Unreal Engine to create life-like sequences through virtual production. Tools like Unreal Engine have become the backbone for many large-scale productions, but it doesn't take a Hollywood-sized budget to use them, or a tremendous amount of know-how to start creating captivating projects with them. Read More...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Tuesday, 9 February, 2021