Virtual Cinematography with Unreal Engine: Lean how Unreal Engine's virtual cinematography framework has given rise to new and advanced techniques in film and animation studios.

This talk focuses on the development and real-world applications of Virtual Cinematography tools, techniques, and workflows using Unreal Engine and accompanying real time technologies. These techniques enable the creation of highly customizable, handheld, point-and-shoot Virtual Cameras (VCams), which can be operated similarly to a live-action camera. Though in a state of constant refinement over the course of nearly two decades, the primary goal has remained consistent: recreate the feel of a cinema camera and make applicable the hard-earned skills of live-action filmmakers and creatives when working in the hybrid digital and animated space of virtual production.

VCam has traditionally been a highly specific process created for a particular filmmaker by a highly skilled technical team on a given production. This work seeks to make these workflows available to all filmmakers at any level and to share the developments occurring in Unreal Engine and active productions today.