He talks about Epic’s Unrealengine and identifies whathe calls the Epic Flywheel for games manufacture seen in Figure7.6.
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Epic games flywheel by Matthew Ball
Epic is a behemoth and has made better business development decisions,and have a better technology than their main competitor Unity3D. Unitydidn’t make the cut for this book, though their technology is great.Their recent merger with a malwaremanufacturerand a history of poor data privacy have removed them from considerationat this time.
ICVFX (in camera virtual effects) or “Volume shooting” is theapplication of large, bright LED walls to film and TV production. Morebroadly than this Virtual Production is a suite of real-timetechnologies that weaves through pre and post production to acceleratecreativity, and reduce costs. These are collaborative, and oftendistributed tasks:
Set ideation and design
Dry runs with actors to plan shots in mixed reality
Virtual set design and storyboarding in full VR
Lighting design
Shot camera track design (movement, focus, lens choices etc)
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John O’Hare (author) with a virtual production robot.