The Youtube description claims:
- Lucasfilm shows off the future of filmmaking? Scenes get rendered out in real time, removing the need for post-production
Post production is so much more than just rendering. That's a small part of the massive undertaking of a huge team. I mean, even sound mixing falls under post production. But hey. It's pretty cool.
That's awesome.
I remember seeing a behind the scenes feature for the making of Avatar and James Cameron was using the same screen/pad to compose the shot rendering greenscreen in real time.
I can't wait to see technology like this get cheaper and trickle down to the market. An iphone app would be pretty awesome
Virtual studios have been doing this for a decade or so - there are always four or five vendors at NAB doing this sort of thing. Granted - they aren't making the talking head look like C3P0, but that's evolutionary, not revolutionary.
One of the Canon C300 demo shorts used live compositing of background and foreground elements for green screen back in 2010. Worked pretty well. Can't remember what it was called, but if you're not interested in rendering the characters, the rest of the stuff isn't that tough to do real-time.
Working on'n'off on a project about Veit Harlan where we're doing everything but the characters and costumes as 3d renderings in real time. That's been the plan for 5 years now.
So yeah - this is sneaking in more and more than you'd think. Lucasfilm's evolution is, as Lucasfilm is wont to do, simply a matter of replacing the only human things left with pixels.