Hyperact: instant photorealistic 3D scenes for Virtual Production

虚拟制作包括使用巨大的LED墙来投射演员周围的场景，这是2019年迪士尼电视剧《星球大战：曼达洛人》的先驱。从那以后，全球虚拟生产市场在2022年增长到18.2亿美元，预计到2027年将翻一番。这个项目解决了当今虚拟生产中最低效的问题之一：创建逼真的3D场景。目前，创建一个3D场景需要艰苦的手工努力来构建详细的3D模型，并应用逼真的颜色，纹理和照明。一个专业的3D艺术家可能需要数周的时间来制作一个物体，更不用说整个场景了。这个价值5万英镑的项目将展示一种方法，只需按一下按钮，就能自动将100张数码照片转换成一个完整的3D场景，准备在虚拟生产中使用。获得低成本、高质量的3D场景将使电影人减少昂贵的国际旅行，并在工作室拍摄更多的场景，在虚拟制作阶段。这项技术被广泛采用，有可能以目前成本和时间的一小部分制作电影场景，使英国走在2200亿美元的全球电视和电影制作行业的前列。

Virtual production involves the use of huge LED walls to project scenes around actors, and was pioneered in the 2019 Disney TV series "Star Wars: The Mandalorian". Since then, the global market for virtual production has grown to $1.82bn in 2022, and is projected to double by 2027\.This project tackles one of the greatest inefficiencies in virtual production today: creating photorealistic 3D scenes.Currently, creating a 3D scene requires painstaking manual effort to construct detailed 3D models and apply realistic colours, textures and lighting. It can take a professional 3D artist many weeks to produce a single object, let alone an entire scene.This £50k project will demonstrate a method to automatically turn a set of 100 digital photos into a full 3D scene, ready for use in virtual production, at the touch of a button. Access to low-cost, high quality 3D scenes will enable filmmakers to cut down on expensive international travel and shoot more scenes in the studio, on virtual production stages.Widely adopted, this technology has the potential to produce film scenes at a fraction of the current cost and time, putting the UK at the forefront of the $220bn global TV and film production industry.