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Gods of Mars Movie Come Alive with NVIDIA RTX Real-Time Rendering
The movie, currently in production, features a mix of cinematic visual effects with live-action elements. The film crew had planned to make the movie primarily using real-life miniature figures. But they switched gears once they experienced the power of real-time NVIDIA RTX graphics and Unreal Engine.
Director Peter Hyoguchi and producer Joan Webb used an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games to bring together VFX professionals and game developers to create the film. The virtual production started with scanning the miniature models and animating them in Unreal Engine.
“I’ve been working as a CGI and VFX supervisor for 20 years, and I never wanna go back to older workflows,” said Hyoguchi. “This is a total pivot point for the next 100 years of cinema — everyone is going to use this technology for their effects.”
Hyoguchi and team produced rich, photorealistic worlds in 4K to create rich, intergalactic scenes using a combination of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU-powered Lenovo ThinkStation P920 workstations, ASUS ProArt Display PA32UCX-P monitors, Blackmagic Design cameras and DaVinci Resolve, and the Wacom Cintiq Pro 24.
Stepping Outside the Ozone: Technology Makes Way for More Creativity
Gods of Mars tells the tale of a fighter pilot who leads a team against rebels in a battle on Mars. The live-action elements of the film are supported by LED walls with real-time rendered graphics created from Unreal Engine. Actors are filmed on-set, with a virtual background projected behind them.
To keep the set minimal, the team only builds what actors will physically interact with, and then uses the projected environment from Unreal Engine for the rest of the scenes.
One big advantage of working with digital environments and assets is real-time lighting. When previously working with CGI, Hyoguchi and his team would pre-visualize everything inside a grayscale environment. Then they’d wait hours for one frame to render before seeing a preview of what an image or scene would look like.
With Unreal Engine, Hyoguchi can have scenes ray-trace rendered immediately with lights, shadows and colors. He can move around the environment and see how everything would look in the scene, saving weeks of pre-planning.
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#5876817 Posted on: 01/13/2021 01:30 AM
Maybe the real point is to allow actors to remain sane. Like Ian McKellen said in a Hobbit behind the scenes documentary: He considered walking out of the production because it was nothing but green screens and often he didn't even have the other actors to talk to, they were all recorded saying their lines separately and then the "discussion" between them was put together afterwards.
I think some of you are missing the point, which is highlighting what's possible today for a relatively small budget. These are just the tools. You still need talent to make a movie, but, its much more feasible now than ever before.
Maybe the real point is to allow actors to remain sane. Like Ian McKellen said in a Hobbit behind the scenes documentary: He considered walking out of the production because it was nothing but green screens and often he didn't even have the other actors to talk to, they were all recorded saying their lines separately and then the "discussion" between them was put together afterwards.
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#5876832 Posted on: 01/13/2021 02:12 AM
I do wonder what they're doing to compensate for how noisy RTX can look, considering how so far I've tried Cyberpunk, BF V, Deliver Us the Moon and Control and none of these uses a high enough sample count to make the denoising flawless.
Presumably they're using multiple GPUs and using much higher sample counts at the cost of framerate which would make sense for a movie
I do wonder what they're doing to compensate for how noisy RTX can look, considering how so far I've tried Cyberpunk, BF V, Deliver Us the Moon and Control and none of these uses a high enough sample count to make the denoising flawless.
Presumably they're using multiple GPUs and using much higher sample counts at the cost of framerate which would make sense for a movie
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#5877347 Posted on: 01/14/2021 11:36 AM
Stephen Speilberg said similar during the making of documentaries for the VR movie Ready Player One he made recently - it seems he hated it - just green/blue screens all day and didn't like it at all compared to old style movie making. Without a doubt he would much prefer the virtual sets as done in Mandalorian if they were available at the time.
Maybe the real point is to allow actors to remain sane. Like Ian McKellen said in a Hobbit behind the scenes documentary: He considered walking out of the production because it was nothing but green screens and often he didn't even have the other actors to talk to, they were all recorded saying their lines separately and then the "discussion" between them was put together afterwards.
Stephen Speilberg said similar during the making of documentaries for the VR movie Ready Player One he made recently - it seems he hated it - just green/blue screens all day and didn't like it at all compared to old style movie making. Without a doubt he would much prefer the virtual sets as done in Mandalorian if they were available at the time.
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#5877422 Posted on: 01/14/2021 02:38 PM
I think it's great. Anything with a huge budget has little chance of really reflecting the directors vision because everyone is so worried that they feel the need to fiddle with it. If we can do stuff with a smaller budget that looks good then some directors with an amazing idea get a chance to actually do it they way they think it should be done without tons of studio interference.
I think it's great. Anything with a huge budget has little chance of really reflecting the directors vision because everyone is so worried that they feel the need to fiddle with it. If we can do stuff with a smaller budget that looks good then some directors with an amazing idea get a chance to actually do it they way they think it should be done without tons of studio interference.
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I think some of you are missing the point, which is highlighting what's possible today for a relatively small budget. These are just the tools. You still need talent to make a movie, but, its much more feasible now than ever before.