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Film Courage: What is Unreal Engine?
Film Director/Producer/Writer/Owner of Sutliff Studios – Virtual Productions, Keith Sutliff: Unreal Engine is a gaming software program that is heavily used in virtual production. You can create any environment in the world that you want in Unreal Engine. You’re creating a game environment essentially, that’s what it is. You can change things, you can move things around (sunlight, anything you want) and you’re creating a game environment basically. The environments look so good, like high-depth, high-definition that it looks awesome on an LED wall and very realistic.
Film Courage: Does Unreal Engine have competition?
Keith: Yes and no. There’s Unity, there’s other gaming programs. Unity is one of them. I’ve never used it but for virtual production with LED wall filming especially. Unreal Engine is the program that we all use in the community. I don’t know if you can even use another program other than Unreal Engine? Maybe you can but Unreal Engine is the program that everyone’s using for virtual production.
Film Courage: What kind of computer and what kind of computing power do you need to run Unreal Engine?
Keith: You need a certain graphic card. I recommend a PC station with certain specs on it. I had one of my tech guys come to me and he sorted all that out for me of what I needed as far as graphic card and storage memory and all that stuff for RAM, all that stuff for the computer, the power run Unreal Engine. If you don’t have the right computer program, it can really lag and not work properly which you don’t want. You need that for your business and your clients.
Film Courage: Is Unreal Engine compatible with Mac?…(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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