The Industrial Light & Magic company shares a production video showing its gigantic 4K LED panels with images generated by Nvidia GPUs.
The Mandalorian, the new Star Wars series of real image of Lucasfilm and Disney, has become one of the main attractions of Disney + waiting for the next premiere of the Marvel Studios series and others of the Star Wars universe. Now, and with the series about to be released in Spain with the arrival of the streaming platform to our country on March 24, the special effects company Industrial Light & Magic has shared a new video showing its impressive virtual technology used in the filming of The Mandalorian, a new way to use ultra realistic backgrounds based on gigantic 4K LED panels.
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And is that responsible for Industrial Light & Magic explain, about half of the shots of the first season of the series have been recorded using this technology in indoor studios, saving outdoor shootings; So much so, that thanks to huge semicircular 4K LED panels of 270 degrees, 6 meters high and a 22-meter diameter of action, a great variety of environments has been achieved in the same recording studio.
Thus, actors and real scenery can be combined with funds projected on these panels with landscapes made in 3D and processed by a Nvidia GPU system, all to achieve a high level of realism and the possibility of modifying in real time the images of the virtual scenarios
“The environments were illuminated and rendered from the perspective of the camera so that I could really capture the physical environment with realistic lighting over the real actors and scenarios, giving executive producer Jon Favreau, executive producer and director Dave Filoni, the effects supervisor visuals Richard Bluff and cinematographers Greig Fraser and Barry Baz Idoine, and episodic directors, the ability to make concrete creative decisions for work based on visual effects during photography and achieve real-time camera compositions on the set, ” They add their managers.
