Virtual Production Possibilities with Erik Weaver Ep 21
Erik Weaver is a specialist focused on the intersection of cloud and the M&E industry and is currently running Virtual & Adaptive production for the Entertainment Technology Center@the University of Southern California (ETC). Projects include Executive Producer on Ripple Effect and FatHead production focused on Virtual Production and ICVFX. Mr. Weaver graduated from the 3rd Unreal Fellowship.
Highlights of the Episode:
0:00 - Introduction
0:36 - Introduction of Guest
1:29 - What lead Erik to his career
4:00 - How did Erik get into Cloud Infrastructure
7:25 - Information about the new project
10:42 - Advice for people getting into filmmaking
14:07 - Advice for people getting into different fields of filmmaking
18:15 - Information Before Vs Information Today
20:14 - Color Science
23:39 - Best methods for shooting
28:41 - Pitching your story
30:01 - Meta Humans
31:13 - Project with Unreal
32:57 - Smaller stages
34:00 - New Technologies in virtual production
38:49 - LED Walls
42:48 - Role of Post-production
44:15 - Cloud Infrastructure workflow
49:56 - ARRND Scene
51:35 - Unreal 5
52:42 - Book for terminologies
54:14 - Machine Learning
56:19 - Extended Reality
58:37 - Outro
Quotes:
“Let's just go end-to-end, document the process, show what's going on, figure out what works, what doesn't actually work in practice.”
“This is like moving up in the evolutionary curve. We've absolutely opened Pandora's box and we're not going back from any of this. This isn't a fad, we're absolutely marching forward.” — Erik Weaver, on using LED screens in the film industry
Connecting with the Guest:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/weavererik/
Website: https://fatheadshortfilm.com/team-1
Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/projectcloudetc
Connecting with CG Pro:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/becomecgpro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/becomecgpro/
Website: https://www.becomecgpro.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgevisualCG
#Future
#Creative
#Virtual
