Capturing 920K Video! - HOLY $H!T
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check out their crazy Volumetric Capture setup.
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This video takes viewers onto the set of Neill Blomkamp’s Demonic to explore a jaw dropping volumetric capture rig built by Volumetric Camera Systems. The host outlines the core setup starting with more than two hundred Yi 4K cameras arranged around a subject, all synchronized via custom firmware so every camera can record in perfect unison. The footage is then processed through AI and computer vision techniques to create a 3D point cloud with depth information, RGB textures, and a full color capture that enables post production to relight, reposition, and composite the actor in Unreal Engine-accurate environments. The production team faces practical constraints like huge storage needs and the challenge of balancing texture detail across a large 5 meter ring versus a high resolution array, which drives their strategy of staging larger moves in the wide array and refining details in the high-res array. The video highlights the pipeline from capture to post processing, showing how the system can generate cinematic quality models while retaining natural artifacts that contribute to Demonic’s horror aesthetic. Lastly, the host touches on portable and scalable variants of the setup, including backpack rigs and small multi-sensor boxes, and hints at future hardware and software improvements that could bring cinema-grade volumetric capture to broader use including medical and military training, as well as entertainment such as live events and gaming integrations.
Topics · technology · film_and_tv · computer_graphics · artificial_intelligence
Questions answered
- What is volumetric capture and how does VCS implement it?
- Volumetric capture uses multiple cameras to capture depth and color from a scene, producing a 3D data set called a point cloud that can be textured and rendered from any angle. VCS synchronizes 239 Yi cameras, uses stereo pairs for depth via trigonometry, and applies AI-driven depth maps and upscaling to create editable 3D models.
- How many cameras are involved and what is the data workflow?
- There are 239 cameras. Data is recorded across all cameras, then sorted with a custom tool called Clippy Copy, aligned in post, depth maps are generated from stereo pairs, and a full 3D textured model is produced for real-time playback and later relighting.
- What are the practical applications beyond cinema?
- Beyond film, the tech could be used for training in medical and military fields, live events and concerts with 3D bands or performers, and game development or virtual production where you need high fidelity models and flexible scene relighting.