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The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season One

Industrial Light & Magic · 2.5M views · 2020-02-20 · 4:43

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Overview

ILM shows how The Mandalorian season one used a large curved LED wall to display interactive 3D environments in camera. The video covers the virtual production setup replacing location shoots.

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Cited as the canonical look at LED-wall virtual production, referenced in threads on game engines in film and CGI.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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russellbeattie · 2022-04 · Recommendation

The advances they've made in virtual production studio backdrops are amazing. Camera-linked floor-to-ceiling 180° LED screens and synced lighting is just amazing. The stuff they're able to do in The Mandalorian is incredible. Though once you know what to look for (the camo hiding the floor/wall seam) you can tell they're using it a bit too much. But still it's incredible. [VIDEO]

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crooked-v · 2021-08 · Recommendation

This video has a lot of examples: [VIDEO] Part of the idea is to do as much as possible in-camera, by rendering the virtual surroundings at a high enough quality to directly film them as the actors' backdrop. It's sort of like a wildly more advanced version of using matte painting backdrops. It also seems far better for actor immersion than green screen, as the people on camera get a live wraparound view of the virtual 'set'.

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Twirrim · 2021-08 · Recommendation

Take a look at how they filled the Mandalorian. Quite a lot of it was filmed inside a large video wall / cube. One of the big advantages for them was that it resulted in far more realistic lighting. [VIDEO]

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