Indie Virtual Production Using Unreal Engine Workshop

Indie Virtual Production Using Unreal Engine with Joshua M Kerr.

Big stories in small spaces.

The filmmaking landscape has changed rapidly over the past two years with the rise of virtual production and its mainstream use in TV shows and films such as The Mandalorian, Westworld and John Wick. Virtual production is the use of real-time game engines in producing live action content. However virtual production is not just reserved for those with access to LED stages and big budgets but is in fact accessible to those involved in small scale indie filmmaking.

Joshua Kerr is an indie filmmaker based in the North East of England and has for the past year been learning virtual production to find out how quickly it can be put to use in productions. His short film ‘A Stitch In Time’ recently used Unreal Engine to power a real-time back projection and Josh is now working toward a much more ambitious project intended to see how far the technology can be pushed on a small scale.

Joshua is leading this 2-hour workshop in virtual production. It is a beginner level demonstration of the tools used for virtual production from a filmmaker’s perspective and is intended to benefit and encourage those with stories they don’t yet have the means to tell.

You do not need a background in visual effects or knowledge of 3D software to be a part of this workshop.

The workshop will cover the following concepts:

Using Unreal Engine to build worlds

Photogrammetry for creating real world objects

Adding People to virtual worlds

Camerawork in virtual worlds

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