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VFX isn’t too high. That’s going to be our sweet spot in the next few years and then you’ll see film doing some live VFX. We already are to some extent, for instance if you remove the green screen and put up an LED monitor wall with pre-shot plates, you can imagine an actor in front of a New York street scene on the video wall and then you get all the interaction of the lighting which can look really good. Nobody wants green screen so it’ll be interesting to see where it goes. “Ultimately, we’ll be able to go out on a location, record all the light data from say a city street or a forest dynamically as lighting does change no matter what people think. We can bring it back in to the studio to drive any video walls and lights to light the talent perfectly. It’s just data capture and then copying that
while actors are performing. For broadcast and events Ncam’s AR technology is allowing sophisticated additional live graphics to augment the action or products launch. Then there’s the magic of Real Light. Nic Hatch looks to the future: “Our scope’s quite wide because we are about pre-visualisation, we are about broadcast, which is real-time VFX, real-time graphics – it’s just the quality is lower, we need to get it higher. We think Real Light will make it more creative, make it easier so people start to adopt it. As this progresses it’s going to be quite interesting because we’ll get more and more accurate lighting. “So all that data you begin to collate and use you can then reuse for really intriguing things in the future for live VFX in television and TV episodics, where your level of
IMAGES Ncam Technologies CEO Nic Hatch keeping things real with Real Depth, Real Light and Extreme.
real-world data in to CG data and blending the two worlds. There are so many things you can drive with that data.” For Ncam this is just the beginning of where this new virtual capture technology will take them. You can also tell by the people who visited the NAB stand that the commercial world is accelerating the demand. Next month we will look at what the virtual set companies are doing and meet some home-grown pre- visualisation technology.
IT’S JUST DATA CAPTURE AND THEN COPYING THAT REAL- WORLD DATA IN TO CG DATA AND BLENDING THE TWO
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