#Star wars on the beach series#

This gave showrunner Favreau, executive producer and director Dave Filoni, visual effects supervisor Richard Bluff, cinematographers Greig Fraser (вЂњRogue OneвЂќ) and Barry вЂњBazвЂќ Idoine (вЂњRogue OneвЂќ), and the episodic directors (including Taika Waititi and Bryce Dallas Howard) the ability to work in a comfortable live-action setting. The environments were lit and rendered from the perspective of the camera to provide parallax in real-time, as though the camera were really capturing the physical environment with accurate interactive light on the actors and practical sets. вЂњWe are proud of what was achieved and feel that the system we built was the most efficient way to bring вЂThe MandalorianвЂ™ to life.вЂќ This tech partnership also includes Fuse, Lux Machina, Profile Studios, NVIDIA, and ARRI, and ILM announced that it is making StageCraft available as an end-to-end virtual production solution to the industry.Д«ryce Dallas Howard directing вЂњThe MandalorianвЂќД¬G environments created by ILM played back interactively on the LED walls, and edited in real-time during the shoot, which allowed for accurate tracking and perspective-correct 3D imagery rendered at high-res via systems powered by NVIDIA GPUs. вЂњWeвЂ™ve been experimenting with these technologies on my past projects and were finally able to bring a group together with different perspectives to synergize film and gaming advances and test the limits of real-time, in-camera rendering,вЂќ said Favreau in a prepared statement.

#Star wars on the beach series#

After making the virtual production leap on вЂњThe Lion KingвЂќ with the help of virtual reality and the real-time game engine, director Jon Favreau took it a step further with Industrial Light & Magic in the making of his Disney+ вЂњStar WarsвЂќ series, вЂњ The Mandalorian.вЂќ The VFX studio created an innovative virtual production workflow called ILM StageCraft, which allowed the filmmakers to generate complex and exotic digital backdrops in real-time (using EpicвЂ™s Unreal game engine) while shooting the eight-episode bounty hunter series at Manhattan Beach Studios in L.A.