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Film Courage: Keith can you explain virtual production workflow?
Film Director/Producer/Writer/Owner of Sutliff Studios – Virtual Productions, Keith Sutliff: Virtual production is a little bit different than the normal filmmaking process and it starts what we call previz [pre visualization]. A client will come to us and say Hey, I want to do this project in virtual production, so everything in virtual production is done in that pre-production process. There’s a lot of planning. Some of the questions we ask:
-What are you trying to achieve?
-What are some different ways we can achieve it?
Because not every virtual production shoot requires what we call a 3D asset which is using Unreal Engine (there’s also 2D assets) which is a video or image plates. It is basically a video file or image file which is displayed on the LED wall that can parallel with in-camera VFX, which I can get into later.
If a person comes to us they’re like Hey, we want to do this, we start talking about what are we going to use:
-2D asset?
-3D asset?
-Do we need camera tracking with the 3D asset Unreal Engine?
Depending on what they need, we’ll make that determination. We start planning it out, help them out with decorating the foreground with whatever practicals they need to sell that environment. If they’re in the snow/mountains, where to get a proper set dresser person to come in and we help facilitate that. We talk about all these different things, talk about the certain camera they’re using and the technical elements, and what’s involved in virtual production not just in-camera (what you can see) but also with the blocking and placements of the actor compared to the wall, depending on what shots they want. A lot of that stuff is discussed in the previz (in pre-production) and we shoot in virtual production since…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Film Director/Producer/Writer Keith Sutliff, originally from Florida, moved to Los Angeles in 2012. His award-winning work in film encompasses feature films, episodic narratives, short form content and commercial productions. Keith’s original screenplays are the foundation for his creative projects. His original screenplay The Refuge (2019), acquired by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is included in the Margaret Herrick Library (The Oscars Library) permanent Core Collection there. His feature films held premieres at Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood with theatrical releases to follow.
Keith’s creative vision has driven him to master the aspects of filmmaking, writing and now virtual production. He founded his production company, KS Pictures, in early 2016. He is now fully committed to virtual production, opening a film studio in the Arts District-Downtown area of Los Angeles called “Sutliff Studios: Virtual Productions.” The studio focuses on rental to companies for film, TV, commercial, and other related media content productions. The studio also focuses on in-house production of its own virtual productions. This is done using the latest cutting-edge software and equipment to bring productions together on a virtual stage. Gaming software such as Unreal Engine combined with a camera tracking solution to help bring real time rendering along with “parallax” on the LED volume wall to life. He is also heavily involved in the operation of the production and filming techniques used on a virtual stage and In-Camera VFX. Familiarity with 2D and 3D assets used on a LED volume and all the technical elements that goes into filming on these stages.
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