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| # Virtual Production Projects For Unreal Engine | ||
| # Want to learn Virtual Production? Start your education here! | ||
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| Virtual Production puts real people in a CG background, adds CG people/objects to live video scenes and a lot of other things. Cameras can move and the CG backgrounds can be animated. It is being used in a lot of TV and Movies like Disney's "The Mandalorian" This repository will help you get started using Epic's free Unreal Engine to do Virtual Production. | ||
| Virtual Production puts real people in a CG background or adds CG characters/special effects to live video scenes. Cameras can move and the CG backgrounds can be animated. It is used in a lot of TV and Movies like Disney's "The Mandalorian" and is the fastest growing new technology for video production today. The tutorials on [my youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/user/GregCorson) and this repository will help you get started learning Virtual Production and Unreal Engine. Best of all, Epic games licenses Unreal Engine free for Virtual Production use! For the first time in history, literally anyone can get the same software used by major motion pictures! Use it to punch up your home videos, make YouTube content or even your own feature film! | ||
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| Below is me doing a product review from a Virtual Set. The output is real-time so you can live stream to YouTube or a video conferencing app like Zoom or Microsoft Teams. The camera can move too. Only me and the desk are real, everything else is CG. You can see more examples on [my youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/user/GregCorson) | ||
| Below is me doing a product review from a Virtual Set. The output is real-time so you can live stream to YouTube or a video conferencing app like Zoom or Microsoft Teams. Only me and the desk are real, everything else is CG. You can see more examples on [my youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/user/GregCorson) | ||
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| [](https://youtu.be/1rVqjiNDPJU "Virtual Production Example") | ||
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| # In This Repository | ||
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| * VPStudio -- my Virtual Production Project, this is being improved regularly and is the project you should use. | ||
| * VPStudio -- my Virtual Production tutorial, this is being improved regularly and is the project you should use. | ||
| * UE4VirtualProduction -- OBSOLETE now, this is an earlier project kept here for reference. | ||
| * TrackerTest -- Measures tracker jitter. OBSOLETE now release 5 of VPStudio has this built-in. | ||
| * TrackerTest -- OBSOLETE now release 5 of VPStudio has Tracker Testing built-in. | ||
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| # Getting Started | ||
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| Everyone has a different hardware and studio so none of these projects are "plug-and-play" you will need to customize them to work with the hardware you have. There are tutorials on [my youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/user/GregCorson) to help you get started. If you have never used Unreal Engine you should watch a couple of the getting started courses on the [Unreal Engine Learning Hub](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses) to get familiar with how to use Unreal. | ||
| Everyone has a different hardware and studio so none of this is "plug-and-play" you have to learn to customize the setup for the hardware you have. The tutorials on [my youtube channel.](https://www.youtube.com/user/GregCorson) will help you get started. If you have never used Unreal Engine you should watch a couple of the getting started courses on the [Unreal Engine Learning Hub](https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/onlinelearning-courses) to get familiar with how to use Unreal. | ||
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| My samples were done with consumer DSLR cameras and VIVE VR gear for tracking. They can be customized for pro quality cameras and camera tracking equipment or can be used with something as simple/cheap as a webcam. Any good 3d gaming PC will work for this. Tracking gear is only needed if you want to be able to shoot video with a moving camera. | ||
| Everything here was done as my hobby using consumer DSLR cameras, VIVE VR gear and a gaming PC. You can get started using a webcam or smartphone camera and a laptop or scale this up to use professional studio equipment. The same software is used for everything. | ||
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| You will need a free download of [Unreal Engine](https://www.unrealengine.com/) to run these samples. | ||
| You will need to download of [Unreal Engine](https://www.unrealengine.com/) to run these examples. | ||
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| # Goals of this project | ||
| # This is an EDUCATIONAL project. | ||
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| Virtual Production is still a new technology with new features coming out so quickly that "official" documentation can't keep up. I'm working out how to do Virtual Production and am making my projects and tutorials available so more people can use it for things like YouTube content and their own movies. | ||
| I've always loved in movie special effects and started doing this as a hobby to learn have fun. Virtual Production is new technology with new features coming out so quickly that official documentation can't keep up. So I decided to start releasing tutorials on YouTube to help other people get started and learn along with me. Consider VPStudio is like a "workbook" to go with the tutorials, it's full of simple examples to help you learn the basics and get over the rough spots. | ||
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| # Other Sources of help | ||
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| There is a lot of virtual production info on social media, check #virtualproduction to find the latest ones. For good help from experienced people chec this [discord channel](https://discord.com/invite/ReEhkhc) and this [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtualproduction) | ||
| There is a lot of virtual production info on social media, check #virtualproduction to find the latest ones. For good help from experienced people check this [discord channel](https://discord.com/invite/ReEhkhc) and this [facebook group](https://www.facebook.com/groups/virtualproduction) they have to approve your membership but that's just to keep out spammers, anyone interested in Virtual Production gets in. | ||
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| # Some other applications | ||
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| Virtual Production can be used to take people from in different places and put them all together on a virtual set, great for press conferences, product announcements and training videos. Unreal Engine can also be used to produce high quality animated productions like [this](https://youtu.be/6xbxA8tnlbY) or [this](https://youtu.be/cE0wfjsybIQ) very quickly. | ||
| Virtual Production has taken on new importantance because of the COVID-19 pandemic. While many TV and Movie productions stalled at first due to quaranteens, Virtual Production quickly allowed us to "teleport" people from their homes into virtual sets for making entertainment. This allowed films to be made with groups of actors while everyone remained safe at home. This could easily be used to do a classic game-show where all the participants stay at home. It's also great for press conferences, product announcements, training videos and virtual trade shows. | ||
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| The great thing about Unreal Engine virtual production is that the same tools can be used in a small home studio or in huge big budget movie productions. | ||
| Unreal Engine render high quality animated productions like [this](https://youtu.be/6xbxA8tnlbY) or [this](https://youtu.be/cE0wfjsybIQ) very quickly. | ||
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| One person can even "perform" all the characters in a film by recording each performance separately and putting them all together! | ||
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| People even use Virtual Production to become a "virtual YouTuber" (VTuber) by replacing themselves with a virtual character. This became really popular in Japan several years ago with VTubers earning big money as influencers today. Check out hashtag #codemiko on twitch/youtube for a great example of this also using Unreal Engine! | ||
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| # Free software and 3d models | ||
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| My examples and the software I use to make them are free. Many CG assets I use in my demos come from the "free assets" section of Unreal Marketplace. There is a lot of CG content available there and every month they release more. Unfortunately, Unreal's licensing doesn't allow me to redistribute this content here, but you can grab it yourself from the marketplace and add them to my VPStudio project by following the [Use your own sets tutorial](https://youtu.be/trlpmm5gI6U) on my YouTube channel. | ||
| Everything in this repository is free and public domain. Use it however you wish. All the examples and tutorials come the community and information in published documentation. | ||
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| Many CG assets I use in my demos come from the "free assets" section of Unreal Marketplace. While the licenses on these assets don't let me distribute them here, you can get most of them for yourself by visiting the Unreal Marketplace free content section. There are a lot of permanently free sets and characters available there. Also every month they give away several pieces of great content for free, so visit the marketplace monthly and grab them! They are yours to use forever! The [Use your own sets tutorial](https://youtu.be/trlpmm5gI6U) on my YouTube channel explains how to create your own setup using the resources you make yourself, buy or get for free. | ||
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| # Contribute, help others and be an educator yourself! | ||
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| # Please Contribute! | ||
| My tutorials will help you get started but remember Virtual Production is so new that even the "experts" are still learning. You may come up with the next great idea which could land you a job working on a film or TV production! Don't be afraid to get out there, talk about your ideas, put up demos and help other people get started! | ||
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| These projects will help you get started. You can use them for any purpose. If you use it to produce a video or want to redistribute a project based on this, please credit me and include links back to my Youtube channel. Let me know what you post and I will reference your work on my sites too! | ||
| If you use any of my stuff I would appreciate a credit and a link back to my channel, but you don't have to. If you send me links to any cool Virtual Production stuff of yours, I'll feature it on my channel to help you get viewers. | ||
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| I'm hoping this will get enough people started in Virtual Production to increase the amount of information about it and make it easier for even more people to join in! | ||
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