{"id":45650,"date":"2017-09-04T11:21:40","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=45650"},"modified":"2017-09-04T11:21:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T18:21:40","slug":"x-men-dark-phoenix-uses-a-previs-gen-system-thats-a-glimpse-of-future-vfx-filmmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/x-menfilms.com\/?p=45650","title":{"rendered":"X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX uses a previs gen system that’s “a glimpse of future VFX filmmaking.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Previs Editor Christopher Hills-Wright<\/strong> explains on his website<\/a> how Simon Kinberg’s X-MEN: DARK PHOENIX<\/a> production uses a revolutionary previsualization generation system, developed by 2nd Unit Director, Guy Norris.<\/p>\n

“My first contract after returning to freelance life, Dark Phoenix was the best work experience I have had in years. As the Previs Editor, I worked closely with both VFX Producer Kurt Williams and 2nd Unit Director, Guy Norris as they developed the coverage of the major VFX sequences of the film. Guy has developed a previs generation system that uses motion capture system with the Unreal game engine in order to bypass time-consuming traditional animation. Members of his stunt crew simply act out the necessary character movements within a virtual model of the set. This data is then passed through Unreal for the character models, and finally rendered out as DNxHD files for the Avid. It\u2019s not yet a perfect system; Unreal is a bear, and rendering out the final Avid media can be slow. But even this prototype system is ten times faster than traditional animation via Maya \u2013 truly a glimpse of the future of VFX filmmaking.”
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\nThanks to @THGDistrict3<\/a> for the heads up!<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: Christopher Hills-Wright<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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