The Mandalorian Virtual Set
Over 50 percent of the mandalorian season 1.
The mandalorian virtual set. Its truly a game changer. As creator jon favreau explains the mandalorian wasnt just real to us at home. Over 50 percent of the mandalorian.
After making the virtual production leap on the lion king with the help of virtual reality and the real time game engine director jon favreau took it a step further with industrial light magic. Theyd build half the. Another capability of virtual sets is to choose pinpointed areas of the wall and turn those green.
Well even the mandalorian with its technological advances used a version of a green screen but via the led wall. Until i bumped into the first video below on youtube this morning i had no idea that a lot of the mandalorian was shot on a virtual set using the unreal engine. The locations were there for the actors and crew too.
A behind the scenes look at the groundbreaking virtual production technology used on the mandalorian season one. Kennedy said a disney executive visited the set of the mandalorian and thought that the stagecraft generated environment was physically there. They began building physical set elements inside the virtual world taking advantage of the dynamic lighting and backgrounds.
Ilm worked with epic games on this project. Richard bluff visual effects supervisor for the mandalorian added working with kim libreri and his unreal team golem creations and the ilm stagecraft team has opened new avenues to both the filmmakers and my fellow key creatives on the mandalorian allowing us to shoot principal photography on photoreal virtual sets that are indistinguishable from their physical counterparts while incorporating physical set pieces and props as needed for interaction. He had no idea he was standing in a virtual set.