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The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian Season One

Industrial Light & Magic · documentary · Watch on YouTube

Animation & visual effectsFilmmaking & video production

What it is

ILM shows how The Mandalorian season one used a large curved LED wall to display interactive 3D environments in camera. The video covers the virtual production setup replacing location shoots.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the canonical look at LED-wall virtual production, referenced in threads on game engines in film and CGI.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “This video has a lot of examples”

    Many examples of in-camera virtual backdrops.

    crooked-v, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “How Technicolor created Ruby slippers without using color film”

  2. “Take a look at how they filled the Mandalorian.”

    Shows Mandalorian filmed in video-wall cube with realistic lighting.

    Twirrim, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “BBC Sport's Tokyo Olympics studio [video]”

  3. “The advances they've made in virtual production studio backdrops are amazing.”

    Amazing camera-linked LED screen virtual sets in The Mandalorian.

    russellbeattie, 2022-04 · Recommendation · in ““I believe CGI is getting worse even as the tech advances.””

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: mandalorian, ilm, virtual production, unreal engine, led volume

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